I was content to damn them with faint praise and save everyone the hassle. EY is a reasonably good writer who repackaged a lot of good ideas (Kahneman et al) and came up with a lot of less impressive original ideas (all the parts you’ve highlighted, many more). His most enjoyable work was fiction.

I can’t speak for others but I’ve come to see the Less Wrong / hardline rationalist crowd as having had some interesting ideas despite the Sam Bankman Fried of it all. Rationalwiki can be rather snarky, but can be a good resource.

Royalty 🇬🇧

Agreed

I’m only an hour in, but I’m getting masterpiece vibes

100%

… You had me until the end. Nobody owes any allegiance to race.

Good context, cheers

As someone who was being stalked for a while, would have been really fucking nice if Voice had sorted this out a few years ago

Anyway…Have y’all tried Animal Well?

It’s really that bad

There’s an argument to be made for both Repulsor and Favourable Beginnings.

He didn’t accept them when he won either so the joke doesn’t really track.

We aren’t talking about the weight of the payload though. Don’t you need a fairly hefty bomb to meaningfully damage a refinery?

If the answer is no, I would love to see this strategy implemented in a longer ranged plane. Russia’s main tank production factory is about 2000 miles from the nominal Ukrainian border.

They must have done something to it, because Wikipedia puts its max range as 680 miles.

The ethos of neutrality isn’t in itself an invitation to drag the neutral position in your direction with increasingly extreme views. It’s unfair to say Switzerland is “aligning itself with Europe” and instead say Europe is less extremist.

ATAB

Believe might be a strong word. He probably just says things like this to drown out the suffocated, croaking voice of his conscience

No, no we didn’t.

It’s the Nuremturd defense. “I was just followink LibsofTikTok”.