Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it

[giflian@techhub.social]

@davidgerard this guy's statement, and the parody of his statement, would be the same statement

[thecasualcritic@writing.exchange]

@davidgerard hilarious how he's all in on their "we have special brains so we can see the future of the machine god" schtick, but it's the *checks notes* veganism that's beyond the pale for him.

Also, how is anyone taking a guy with such a cultish worldview seriously!

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@simon "i spent ten years in a hotbox with these guys but i didn't inhale"

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard ’kin ’ell

[passocacornio@tech.lgbt]

@davidgerard cool way to deflect... *say you agree with all the things that are unique to their ideology, but opposed to the things they co-opted [mostly] from actual social movements*

[lasombra_br@mas.to]

@davidgerard What is it with SV and these weird open cults all around?!

[bart@smop.fyi]

@davidgerard My “uniquely able to be correct about topics removed from daily experience” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

[cynaq@beige.party]

@davidgerard side observation: this guy apparently can’t just shut up

[lucky@mastodon.nz]

@davidgerard "i would be a rationalist except i'm anti-veganism" is truly the most insane take i've seen in a while

[craignicol@glasgow.social]

@davidgerard can't decide if he sounds like an LLM or LLMs sound like people like him

[psh@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard [meanwhile the rationalists before bed]

[waha_06x36@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard "I am intuitively opposed to veganism" sure are some words to type out on a keyboard.

[dukeboitans@mas.to]

@craignicol @davidgerard Yeah, this is a really important question.

[aegir@toot.wales]

@davidgerard @Nickiquote I can’t be the the only person going, “Rationalists? What,like Descartes?”, so, no, not like Descartes.

https://garden.johanneskleske.com/rationalists

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@dukeboitans @craignicol

so the rationalists love their chatbots

but in many years they *all* write like that *all the time*

it can be hard to tell when it's an LLM assist and when they're just fucking like that

for people who loathe and fear the imaginary AI, they sure do love the real ones

fortunately they put useful warnings on their hypertrophies blogs, like slop images, so you know not to bother reading

you wanna know who likes ai slop art, it's these guys

[dzajew@social.dzajew.xyz]

@davidgerard
I thought rationalists were people like Descartes. Or am I missing some new meaning

[davey_cakes@mastodon.ie]

@aegir @davidgerard @Nickiquote

Yeah unfortunately it's "I think there will be a robot god, therefore I am acting like a lunatic"

[cartyboston@mastodon.roundpond.net]

@davidgerard his skepticism of polyamory may be more imposed on him than anything.

[wilson6923@veganism.social]

@davidgerard “weirdly specialized minds”… I’m sorry WTF?!?!?

[gryphonmyers@mastodon.social]

@dzajew @davidgerard terrible new meaning. See Eliezer Yudkowski