Im going to assume they meant it as a reference to the Castlevania boss.
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Ah Lyta Gold, one of the enjoyable writers from current affairs before Nathan went all "call an ambulance! I think I'm having a moment of class consciousness! But just for me!" Starts firing everybody. And I realized that vague socialist left libertarians suck. (In a just world he would languish alone on his site, with only the email replies he gets from Noam Chomsky to keep him warm. But it isn't a just world, so he just replaced his writers, like a proper capitalist owner).
But turns out Gold (I had lost sight of her) has a book "Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality" out which might be relevant to us. And she also blogs on substack, with relevant to out interest posts like "what ever happened to right-wing art?" (Moldbug mentioned, drink!), and a look at conservative masculinity "What if we treated men like adults?".
I think most of them thought they would be the pumpers and dumpers and not the ones holding the bag. Saw influencers pull the same sort of shit a few years ago. "Here is how I made money quickly scamming others by pump and dumping memes Musk references". (This is still a confidence scam and the blame should be put on the people pulling it and not the dumb greedy victims imho).
From their earlier writing on Bitcoin: "but some doubts arose about the aforementioned professor: Saifedean Ammous." Saifedean Ammous might not be an actual professor, or a sane person at least, I assume you all are just as shocked as I am. (E: turns out it is his actual real name, can't make this up).
Sure, but that step comes after the cops lift you out of your bed. And you get a good lawyer etc etc. Nobody was charged after the home visit but it still was a home visit, granted that was in .nl so less risk of being shot or getting your stuff stolen. And that is assuming the law still works.
in real life
Careful not to post things that could get you into trouble with a judge without a sense of humor, or just cops/secret service. Wouldn't be the first time I hear of a home visit because the cops got confused at a joke.
Esp if it turns out the conspiracy theory about the murder being crypto related and they confuse this place for being a pro cryptocurrency place.
E: on topic just not LLMs and artists but also the idea that Musk got Trump elected will cause a backlash. (Which I find dubious, more despite the man, they made the election be about a gay onlyfans support squirrel ffs)
Wtf, Unity is right there.
Well humans are a liquid, we get into everything.
Didn't they at least try to block parliament with buses or something? (A thing easily circumvented with the parliamentarians going 'whereever enough of us gather is parliament, the building has no magical qualities'
Wonder if he did the rightwing thing and just went 'the silent majority agrees with my statements'(*) and just assumed the militaries would be all part of the incel crew and fall in line behind him.
*: On that note there was some cringe thanksgiving video of one of those weird Trump aligned culture war freaks (the daily wire perhaps?) where the freak strides into the thanksgiving event and starts slapping everybody around as some sort of victorious conquerer (at least that is what I imagined was the intended feeling. Not the deranged crazy weirdo vibe it gave off). And this video had a scene which baffled some people, there was a normal guy who was given a big cigar or something and some people were confused why that was a thing. I think that was the imagined '"normal" silent majority guys all secretly agree with me but they are ashamed to act' thing.
The first part of this article reminds me of something that was missing from the article a while back, on the flaws of LW/Rationalist style thinking. It was missing that LW/Rationalists love to create binary camps. Object vs Meta, Soldier vs Scout mindset, Founder vs Manager, and here external "AI is fake and sucks” internal "AI is real and dangerous.” camps. These mindsets are often massively flawed and lead to very simplistic thinking (see for example how in this case, the AI is real vs AI is fake actually removes 2 camps (the internal 'AI is fake' people and the external 'AI is real' people)).