Curtis Yarvin is just an internet age Julius Evola for the type of people who are somehow also impressed by Julius Evola.

Quality sneer!

Fr, eschewing the command line is the cs guy version of not being able to change a flat tire

I bet you’re right on the money.

Edit: someone deep in the thread dared him to post a video of one of his coding speedruns if it’s so good, which tickled me

hackernews enthusiast tpacek is filled with incredulity when some friends won’t join his new religious movement. This of course has triggered a 1200 reply long thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

First we mine, then we craft hey does anyoune else smell burnt toast?

Congrats! :D

Sobering!

When I get a minute, I intend to do a back of the napkin calc to figure out how many words 100 million of these things would hear on an average day.

100 million sounds like a target that was naively pooped out by some other requirement, like “How much training data do we need to scale to GPT-5 before the money runs out, assuming the dumbest interpolation imaginable?”

Yeah, it kind of grew a religion on it since then, didn’t it?

It’s kind of encouraging that this dumb shit isn’t new innit?

Am I the only person not impressed by veo3? Yeah there are more details yada yada, but the details are still wrong.

The view of the garbage fractal isn’t improved by zooming deeper into the Bullshit-Mandlebrot Set.

It’s not healthy for me to have my biases confirmed like this.

Should have trained it on Ninjago

Noice!

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…fields oriented around neurology are scientific, but fields oriented around psychology are pseudoscientific.

When a good man gazes into the palantir and sees L Ron Hubbard looking back

Tired: Ned Ludd

Wired: Joe Butlerian

Can Adam ruin something so much that he can’t ruin that particular ruination?

It’s supervisors all the way down!

Love this