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one of the job listings mentions effective altruism as a desirable background for applicants 🙄
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mastodon 4.7.3+glitchineffective altruist. bedtime abolitionist. dismissive-avoidant supremacist. glitchstressed and spookyfried.
you can be an optimist if you hate the world enough
I don't care if I interact with someone you don't like
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I'm a fan of the no-state solution
tbh I think we should call the weird non-Jewish Zionists who treat Jews like mystical perfect elves "weeajews"
people don't criticize the star trek franchise enough because it validates the fantasy that technology will eventually make the universe a cooler better place
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there's a reason why they call it no kings and not no presidents
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I have "same food every day" autism so I'm pretty fine with my daily diet of overnight oats, smoothies, soups, and protein bars
fuck cars
I shouldn't have drank so much caffeine before bed lol
I'm trying to find an essay critical of Sam Harris but I forget the title/author. it's an old essay about how Harris is a shitty philosopher and neuroscientist and became influential because of his family's wealth. but I most remember a line that went something like
"calling Sam Harris a neuroscientist is like calling the 9/11 hijackers aerial stuntsmen: they tried it once and it ended in disaster"
I need modafinil NOW
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@passenger on the other hand I've read socialists with PhDs denying climate change and some generally out-of-touch "educated" people
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@aparrish this is why Distributed Proofreaders exists, they correct the OCR and make readable ebook files
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@jwz as an actual vegan I've encountered a depressingly high number of vegans who support LLMs because "at least they're not as bad as beef"
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@cstross@wandering.shop EA is a cult. one of my former friends from college (who is a software engineer with a good salary) is, last time I checked, living in her car and forgoing basic needs to save as much money as possible so that she can donate it to an "effective" charity when she dies