Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
https://zhukeepa.substack.com/p/ai-alignment-and-the-distributed
This came across the dash and wellā¦
I couldnāt remember who Chris Langan was, and mobile search gave me āChris Langhamā:
No mention of philosophy, but this turned up
OK so maybe the correct person?
No it turns out Langan is the person with āthe worldās highest IQā.
From the podcast transcript
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No doubt Himmlerās friends and family thought he was a great guy too.
Very true. It should instead be dismissed because it is the exact sort of reactionary nonsense a craven nazi would try to pass off as philosophical inquiry.
From a brief glance at the CTMU it fits into:
Itās fascinating to see people re-invent the same bad eschatology, itās like thereās crazed compulsive shaped hole in the heart of man or something.
Wikipedia tells me that Langan says that he can prove the existence of God, the soul and an afterlife, using mathematics ā¦ I feel like thereās gonna be some bad Bayes in there somewhere.
@carlitoscohones @techtakes See also Frank Tipler, āThe Physics of Immortalityā (or: Astrophysicist goes cray-cray, tries to prove TESCREAL bullshit only takes a left turn into evangelical Christianity by way of the fine structure constant)
From what I recall from the halcyon days of science-blogging, it was more bad Gƶdel than bad Bayes, but a dose of the latter would be unsurprising.
previously featured here, too
Yeah I realized that as soon as I found the correct result.
So many high-IQ fascists, I get memory buffer overruns.
I had missed that post, no idea Ben had fallen that far. (Like I knew the psi stuff, not the fanboying of the person people need to āwell not all nazis were badā things about).
Reminds me of this comic, xcancel
oh boy
bonus Leverage