purrtrandrussell
@purrtrand-russell.bsky.social
Fully automated luxury queer space georgist into effective altruism, liberalism, and feminism. More of a nyan-binary than a catgirl. I accept every pronoun but "it" but mostly use "they" for myself. I try to post good news and actionable information
(This is something lots of rationlists themselves will say)
(background: I used to be a rationalist. I no longer consider myself one, but I still have many friends in the subculture)
(background: I used to be a rationalist. I no longer consider myself one, but I still have many friends in the subculture)
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
(This is something lots of rationlists themselves will say)
(background: I used to be a rationalist. I no longer consider myself one, but I still have many friends in the subculture)
(background: I used to be a rationalist. I no longer consider myself one, but I still have many friends in the subculture)
I wouldn't say "standard California cult" because "cult" has the connotations of being a high-control group (which rationalism is extremely not), but I would say that it's fair to call rationalism a new religious movement grown in a Jewish substrate
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I wouldn't say "standard California cult" because "cult" has the connotations of being a high-control group (which rationalism is extremely not), but I would say that it's fair to call rationalism a new religious movement grown in a Jewish substrate
What are some examples of this? I don't know anything about this subject but I'm curious
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
What are some examples of this? I don't know anything about this subject but I'm curious
How would a more rigorous humanities class be different from the current ones, in your opinion?
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
How would a more rigorous humanities class be different from the current ones, in your opinion?
congratulations!
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
congratulations!
Respect for owning your mistakes
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Respect for owning your mistakes
I would add "compromising voting machines" to this. We need mandatory paper ballots. www.eff.org/issues/e-vot...
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October 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I would add "compromising voting machines" to this. We need mandatory paper ballots. www.eff.org/issues/e-vot...
If reactionaries learned enough history, they'd learn that multiculturalism is OP and stop being reactionaries.
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
If reactionaries learned enough history, they'd learn that multiculturalism is OP and stop being reactionaries.
It's bizarre that it talks about a woman experiencing hair loss from testosterone as something that needs to "run its course" when there exist DHT blockers like finasteride that cis men use all the time, some of whom have side effects but many tolerate.
October 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It's bizarre that it talks about a woman experiencing hair loss from testosterone as something that needs to "run its course" when there exist DHT blockers like finasteride that cis men use all the time, some of whom have side effects but many tolerate.
LLM capabilities have been growing rapidly and so if you're even a little out of date you'll underestimate models.
Getting the best use out of an LLM requires putting in some effort, so if you haven't learned how to do that, you'll underestimate models.
Getting the best use out of an LLM requires putting in some effort, so if you haven't learned how to do that, you'll underestimate models.
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
LLM capabilities have been growing rapidly and so if you're even a little out of date you'll underestimate models.
Getting the best use out of an LLM requires putting in some effort, so if you haven't learned how to do that, you'll underestimate models.
Getting the best use out of an LLM requires putting in some effort, so if you haven't learned how to do that, you'll underestimate models.
It doesn't make sense to separate religious zionism from "mainstream" zionism when Mafdal-RZ and Otzma Yehudit are both in the governing coalition in the Knesset. Unfortunately, the fanatics have a lot of power in the Israeli government right now.
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It doesn't make sense to separate religious zionism from "mainstream" zionism when Mafdal-RZ and Otzma Yehudit are both in the governing coalition in the Knesset. Unfortunately, the fanatics have a lot of power in the Israeli government right now.
Thank you for posting these cute kitties
September 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Thank you for posting these cute kitties
This is genuinely a good idea, with the caveat that I think that it would be important to tailor rhetoric to avoid attacking liberal Christians. A major mistake of New Atheism was that it aimed at religion as a whole and failed to see liberal Christians as allies against Christian nationalism.
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is genuinely a good idea, with the caveat that I think that it would be important to tailor rhetoric to avoid attacking liberal Christians. A major mistake of New Atheism was that it aimed at religion as a whole and failed to see liberal Christians as allies against Christian nationalism.
It's fascinating how many counter-intuitive ways transness can manifest. Ex. Enbies with binary trans body dysphoria. It's completely wild that not only can someone have a gender ID different from their asab, but they can have a different gender ID than their strongly preferred sex phenotype.
August 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's fascinating how many counter-intuitive ways transness can manifest. Ex. Enbies with binary trans body dysphoria. It's completely wild that not only can someone have a gender ID different from their asab, but they can have a different gender ID than their strongly preferred sex phenotype.
it gives serious medieval-rulers-hiring-Jews-as-tax-collectors vibes except we don't even get paid this time
August 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
it gives serious medieval-rulers-hiring-Jews-as-tax-collectors vibes except we don't even get paid this time