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“Thousands of LessWrong posts”

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social

Nate Silver has an extremely high opinion of his ability to apply his intelligence way outside of its field of study and it is often hysterical. The worst parts of his book were the PDoom chapters. Absolute dogpoop stuff.

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Never been to lesswrong but I can already tell it exists for people with a cargo cult level grasp of intellectual humility. Like as long as you’re posting here, you can assert whatever wild nonsense you desire and people need to nod soberly.

personally I trust the AI opinions of the man whose chosen method of disseminating his world view is Harry Potter fanfiction

to be fair I, too, disseminate my worldview and AI opinions via fanfiction just, not of Harry Potter (although I don't think she'd gone full mould brain back when that _particular_ fanfic was written)

Mike is a great, switched-on tech journo who learned not to eat shit by being on the Meta beat for so many years. Nate Silver had Ben coasting on a good dice-roll he made two decades ago.

Like the speedrun of Rationality is "the likelihood of something terrible happening is what I feel it is because I am Smart and Special" and I can see that fitting Silver to a T