I didn’t think today was gonna be a day where I’d read about sounding then breaking glass rods but here we are.

Fuck lmfao 🤣

That was way back in 2007. Probably close to when I read his stuff… but even then he was clearly still clinging to the Halloween Letters and seemed extremely old school.

Emphasis on used to. He worked fairly hard at becoming a household name, but ultimately his fame was pretty brief. Stallman achieved meme status, love him or hate him. Torvalds actually ships shit people use. There’s just no discourse around Raymond these days, good or bad.

Every once in a while someone trips over one of the pitons he’s driven into the wall of FOSS to try and climb it, discovers his abysmal takes, amd everyone promptly forgets about him again.

You’re being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.

Least insane ESR post

They’re gonna ruin cities by further limiting the rights of pedestrians to work around their mediocre programming.

Definitely, there was no coming back from that debate.

fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap they’re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths

So much this

still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-you’re-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples

It’s dream logic.

The point was SSCers reacting. Vance being an SSCer isn’t notable as he’s a Thiel creature. SSCers being confronted with the eyeshadowed mirror that is Vance is much more interesting because they spend a lot of time being nominally not exactly what Vance is.

life outcomes related to cognition

My sides.

Oof, that slid right past me. I think I skimmed some of the parts the article told me it was ok to skim if I wanted to.

This is actually a really damning article. Despite the carefully constructed facade, Scott simply isn’t curious about anything that might broaden his world.

Ok, I tried giving it a fair shake, and I guess it’s got the same problem as every other forum roleplay: it’s fun to roleplay, not fun to read someone else’s roleplay.

many people I know who got more from HPMOR read it carefully, perhaps stopping after every chapter to think about the goals and motivations of each character and predict what happens next

It’s actually kind of an achievement that in the ultra-saturated Isakai genre they’ve managed to set a new standard in repulsive premises.