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eahrend.dev
@eahrend.dev

Why is it whenever I read a rat/EA writing, all I can think of is a dude in a shitty fedora at thanksgiving saying "Maternal unit, can you please pass the sodium chloride?? I need to season my avian dinosaur"

Grace@gracekind.net

This just isn’t true at all: “The sixth virtue is empiricism. The roots of knowledge are in observation and its fruit is prediction. What tree grows without roots?”

lesswrong.comTwelve Virtues of Rationality — LessWrongThe first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires bot…

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Grace
@gracekind.net

Yudkowsky is sort of the proto-this-type-of-guy, fedora and all. Like the stereotype is partially formed from him

eahrend.dev
@eahrend.dev

I feel like I stumbled into some sort of rabbit hole of internet culture that I shouldn't know. I considered myself chronically online, but the discovery of Yud feels like I just found the missing link

Saphire Lattice
@saphi.re

It's a cursed knowledge. Was.. rather funny to see the lightbulb pop up for a friend when I've mentioned that "rational fiction", "hp & mor" and "roko's basilisk forum" all exist because of the same single person