Brian David

@dgerard Why is it that all these rationalist screeds read like deeply stupid versions of Naked Lunch?

@mawhrin @scruiser “The idea here in short is …” [continues writing response from now until the heat death of the universe]

@mawhrin @dgerard It never ceases to amaze me how anyone can read the word vomit these people fling into the world and think it’s good writing.

@swlabr @gerikson

“I have learned a lesson as old as time itself. Bow before my greatness.”

@self @dgerard Am curious if you have specific concerns about Nix or if it’s more a general concern based on past experience.

@Architeuthis @tante I often hear it said that the TREACLE crowd is a section of early 2000s Internet atheists that went on to invent their own god, but I don’t think it gets pointed out enough how much stupider their belief system is compared to the religions they constantly mock.

@self @froztbyte Another big part of it is the obsession with the “young genius disruptor coder”. Which has resulted in management buying into endless fads foisted on us by twenty-somethings, and then inevitably having to undo half the things they implemented 5 years later. Well, except for React, which apparently we can’t get rid of but must forever keep reimplementing with whatever new new pattern will actually make it scale for real this time.

@self Oh no, it’s the “build” language. This really is web3 all over again, isn’t it?

@Amoeba_Girl @dgerard Sometimes I think there’s a goldmine of comedy to be had laughing at these eugenics types having kids and slowly realizing they aren’t rich like Musk and Grimes and have to care for these humans. Then I remember that isn’t funny at all, it’s extremely upsetting.