All is forgiven. Hot Ones is an internet interview show. Its core premise is that the host and interviewee conduct their interview while eating increasingly spicier chicken wings. As with any interview platform, it’s a common stop for public figures to hit up, especially on PR tours.

The show has a reputation for researching its guests well and asking insightful/deep questions. There’s also an element to it where, for some guests, as they experience spicier wings, they are unable to keep up whatever facade or persona they usually keep up in interviews.

I wasn’t making any profound commentary; I want to see Yud in pain while trying to explain alignment.

If Yud and Soares are on a book tour I want them to go on hot ones

Recently thought about how this one xkcd has probably done more recruiting for the rat community per unit effort spent making it than that 700k word salad.

Where are we on xkcd? I haven’t looked at it regularly for over a decade now. Nothing personally against the author or comic itself, I just completely deconverted from consuming nerd celebrity content at that point in the past.

Not sweaty enough

Dick Gay

Obligatory lol

Straw-onanism

roko’s basilisk but instead of simulating torture it’s simulating mundane purchases. Broko’s Grocerlist

AGI: I’m not a superintelligence, I’m you.

Unfortunately, for me, this is sailing a little too close to the critihype line. I don’t think writing these weekly really helps the bit.

Dragon Ball Z. (1990, April 25). 野望のベジータ！宇宙一の戦士はオレだ!!/Frieza Strikes! episode.

I like that whoever wrote this initially had a wife in their fantasy life. The wife stops getting mentioned like two posts in. I want a full reboot of this series based on her life

OK. So, this next thing is pretty much completely out of the sneerosphere, but it pattern matches to what we’re used to looking at: a self-styled “science communicator” mansplaining a topic they only have a reductive understanding of: Hank Green gets called out for bad knitting video

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“I have approximate knowledge of many things.”

It’s a financial security threat, you see

I was wondering about the origins of sneerclub and discovered something kinda fun: “r/SneerClub” pre-dates “r/BlogSnark”, the first example of a “snark subreddit” listed on the wiki page! The vibe of snark subreddits seem to be very different to that of sneerclub etc. (read: toxic!!!) but I wouldn’t know the specifics as I’m not a snark participant.

it’s probably not something you could understand without fat rails of cocaine

how Silicon Valley’s made its money for the past 20 years

So much for silicon valley’s ability to innovate.

Aside: it sucks that SV chuds are developing a future where surveillance capitalism is operating at peak capacity and there’s no privacy by default. And it also sucks that most of them believe that this is going to be some kind of utopian, transhumanist future. Augh.

Trying to figure out if that Siskind take comes from a) a lack of criticality and/or the ability to read subtext or b) some ideological agenda to erase the role of violence (threats of violence are also violence!) in change happening, or both

crowder just mad that the title on the tent was “prove me wrong” and not “change my mind”

I’m seeing this as the source