Ancestors

Written by David Gerard on 2025-02-03 at 00:51

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3436005

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Toot

Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 13:32

new class of kook just dropped

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Descendants

Written by khalid_salad on 2025-02-04 at 13:44

This community is for those willing to bring wisdom and compassion into the world. It is not for those easily duped by what they find in their minds or online.

no red flags there

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Written by self@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 20:58

It is not for those easily duped by what they find in their minds or online.

fuck I hate when my own brain dupes me into getting on the internet

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Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 21:20

1990s: barely only once

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Written by David Gerard on 2025-02-04 at 15:44

existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians

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Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 16:10

how do you reckon? admittedly I haven’t gotten to dive full depth on the zizians but the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist

I was struck by the outright “hey we’ve got cult camp” kitted out in whatever-the-fuck they’ve done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as “people are cyborgs now”

although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now I’m wondering if that’s a thing that I missed in others of this before

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Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 17:25

Buddhist thinking has always been a big undercurrent (at least compared to the rest of the western world) in the hacker/computer science world, so doesnt have to come from anything LW related.

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Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 17:35

it’s above-baseline among the tpots

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Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 18:15

Compared to the hacker baseline that is odd indeed.

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Written by David Gerard on 2025-02-04 at 19:17

so there’s a whole network of specifically Thiel-associated SF tech guys who are into particular churches

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Written by istewart@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 17:57

do these kooks follow single inheritance or multiple inheritance rules? I’m a bit more worried about the latter

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Written by David Gerard on 2025-02-04 at 19:16

lol, multiple

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