Still not dodging the Aum Shinrikyo comparisons

Ya see, we’re being charitable when we call them grifters instead of genocidaires.

Therac-25, but everyone gets irradiated

If we’re lucky, they’ll get left on the same dusty historical shelf as the raelians when this is all over. They’re just too fuckin weird for general consumption.

I feel like he lifted “cult factory” without attribution. Was that Robert Evans?

Entryism in the sneersphere will be a problem sooner or later, won’t it?

They’ll have always been against this.

Oof! Comp sci?

I’m not a scientologist but LRH had some great ideas

That’s some bullshit. Much respect for pushing back!

I hope that we’re through the worst of it.

This reads like someone having an unfortunate encounter with mental health rather than a technical conference talk.

limiting to .edu or ye olde mathematics stack exchange might get you part of the way, in addition to the previous suggestions. Lots of good stuff on old university websites!

Edit: and hyperphysics, as suggested by schnoopy

P Thiel is visiting Nashville

https://luma.com/do6chah5

We’re basically the Vatican of middle Tennessee.

Great episode!

Snagged a used thinkpad with an rtx 3080 for $700. Needed a bit of TLC but feeling like we got away with something!

Just heard that Alecto the Ninth is likely happening next year! eeeeeeeeeeee

Kelsey Piper posts a new fanfiction about Ed Zitron :

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/ais-biggest-critic-has-lost-the-plot

Edit: Lately, Kelsey Piper has been serving as the ambassador to centrist liberals from lesswrong, which is why the “big mad” nature of the piece caught my attention.

Included below is a previous example of Piper’s work for the benefit of the uninitiated:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/1my5z3g/kelsey_piper_of_vox_cowrote_an_epic_eugenics

Seize the means of (music) production!