this is unfortunately one of his worst posts though

i do think that the prevalence of p-hacking and other phenomena means that the "expert class" is not always right, but trans regret easily aligns with empirical reality—the 1-3% stat matches the vanishingly small number of publicly detrans people

he's a king for jumping into the lion's den——a born poster at heart

this was the sentence of the year for me, probably

regardless of what it is, it seems like there's a recurring trendwhere there's a brief span where brilliant, genre-defining works all arise around the same time and then there isn't this _density_ of quality ever again within the medium

re: movies, it seems to me like scorsese is the only western director that makes anything remarkable nowadays

is there like some perfect equilibrium of attention/money/whatever in a space that attracts the right kind of person?

not enough -> under-resourced, poor quality
too much -> popular, slop

the enslopification of the world* is a super interesting phenomenon to me because it seems to be (mostly) divorced from monetary, etc. incentives

TV is a good example—we went from breaking bad and true detective s1 to... whatever the fuck we have now

*patent pending on this term

twitter was really good around 2020 when it was annoyingly censorious because the few racist/sexist/etc. posts that blew up were always funny or at least creative

now it's just a wall of lowbrow bigotry—there's no artistry to being subversive anymore. fuck you elon

A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength—life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

If you are shocked by the outcome of an important event, and another group doesn't seem surprised at all, you should get curious about their media diet... and yours.

Don't have anything profound today, but here is a funny footnote from my readings.

I need like a 300 follower account somehow—enough people that I get a few likes per post so it doesn't feel like I'm tweeting into the void, but not enough that I feel the need to censor myself

I am a transhumanist because I do not have enough hubris not to try and kill God.

History only happens at the state's convenience.

Has Death itself become a telecommodity? A dark tide of scare-stories and morbid rumour increasingly suggests so.

whenever we hear nowadays "that's to be judged by the outcome," we know immediately with whom we have the honor of conversing. they live in their thoughts... they have a permanent position in a well-organized state, separated by centuries from the convulsions of existence.

politics is theology around the back, where it twists

daily thread of the coolest sentence I read that day (until I get bored)

I like this platform because I can tweet without worrying about having 1k followers

still thinking about that dude at hereticon who apparently had no model of objective reality and just believed people based off whether he felt they were credible

having your entire epistemic framework based off ONLY vibes seems like a such an awesome way to live

I wish I were him ngl

i am once again begging people to stop with the deadly earnest, virtue signaling replies to casual shitposts, it's really tiresome

yes yes, you have perfect politics and opinions, we are all quite aware, now just let us fuck about online in peace

eliezer yudkowsky vs george hotz: epic rap battles of history