Hot damn, quality sneer

Still not dodging the Aum Shinrikyo comparisons

Ya see, we’re being charitable when we call them grifters instead of genocidaires.

Therac-25, but everyone gets irradiated

If we’re lucky, they’ll get left on the same dusty historical shelf as the raelians when this is all over. They’re just too fuckin weird for general consumption.

I feel like he lifted “cult factory” without attribution. Was that Robert Evans?

Entryism in the sneersphere will be a problem sooner or later, won’t it?

They’ll have always been against this.

Oof! Comp sci?

I’m not a scientologist but LRH had some great ideas

That’s some bullshit. Much respect for pushing back!

I hope that we’re through the worst of it.

This reads like someone having an unfortunate encounter with mental health rather than a technical conference talk.

limiting to .edu or ye olde mathematics stack exchange might get you part of the way, in addition to the previous suggestions. Lots of good stuff on old university websites!

Edit: and hyperphysics, as suggested by schnoopy

P Thiel is visiting Nashville

https://luma.com/do6chah5

We’re basically the Vatican of middle Tennessee.

Great episode!

The regular suspects seem to be very mad at NetBSD, don’t they?

They can’t even get in the sea right

It’s impressive how these very rational millionaire tech lords get so bent out of shape by anyone outside of their club getting any attention (edit: about AI) whatsoever. Just peak pettiness.

They can all go choke on a pelican.

Dan Luu and tptacek are very mad at Ed Zitron, and they claim to have slammed him with FACTS and LOGIC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526069

I have to take this story in small doses, it’s fuckin terrible.