Knowing he’s a failson who’s alienated everyone in his family makes me very happy.

Yeah that got me as well. We barely hear anything in the book about how the Culture actually functions. Fucker’s not read it and just grabbed the first name off the list.

I saw the post and that it was in earnest but screw it I’m still taking it as a reference to how Simone would reel in and groom young female students for Jean-Paul’s benefit.

oh my god

See the bright side: chatbots are going to ruin the speedreading industry.

No may be about it, Camp of the Saints is only ever mentioned by big racists these days. Might as well be the Turner Diaries.

I live how he put The Gulag Archipelago in there along a bunch of speculative fiction.

Also it’s simply just bad to practice being cruel to a humanshaped thing.

Yeah, if you had any awareness about how stupid and unlikeable you’re coming across to everybody who crosses your path, I think you would recognise that this is probably not a good maxim to live your life by.

Russia doesn’t really do, or indeed understand, soft power

counterpoint

From Zack’s LessWrong post, last footnote:

Though we’re unlikely to get it*, I’ve sometimes wished for a Greg Egan–Robin Hanson collaboration; I think Egan’s masterful understanding of the physical world and Hanson’s unsentimental analysis of the social world would complement each other well.

Hell yeah dude!!! That’s almost as good as my idea for an Ursula K. Le Guin–Adolf Hitler collaboration! Can’t wait for GPT5!

I’ve avoided reading Greg Egan until like last year because I entirely expected him to be a cold stemlord shithead and people only talk about his earlier books that have more to do with consciousness and identity and stuff, which these days feels very zzzzz, but he is SO COOL and SO FUN!!! He cares in a deep way about people, lived experience, about societies, he loves physics and maths in themselves because they’re beautiful and fun and not because they’re ways to look smart or reveal the secrets of the universe, his books are very beautiful. Complete opposite of Yud, Scott, nostalgebraist (I have a grudge) et al.'s silly books.

And yet it posts.

liking romance novels is now a hardcore porn addiction

Wow Trannyporno really put that depraved woman in her place

You should have DM’d me and if you had I would have gladly re-written the thread or added a post with additional crediting. My DMs were open for you, and you knew that from experience, because we have DM’d before. As a courteous person, I’m not going to say what about in public, but I am going to say that you knew better than to blow up like you have.

… did they cyber?

lmfao my goodness isn’t he just the most pathetic little prig

All of this over autocomplete technology. I keep needing to remind myself. Unbelievable.

‘do not summon that which you cannot put down’

In that vein, Mao’s cultural revolution was one of the stupidest moments in human history. The MAGAs of the world seem rather intent on trying to top it. Have the Proud Boys eaten anyone yet?

I think if we continue pushing current trends, in the next ten years we could finally instigate the Gender War! Ten thousand years in the making!

the extreme wing of the liberal elite (e.g. Taylor Lorenz)

transmissions from the woman-hating dimension

they’re racists