What Eva orders: affection (dinner half an hour early) What Eva receives: affliction (a onesie to stop her from scratching herself)
Now that I'm starting to fall down this rabbit hole I have to ask: would the more esoteric rationalist theories make more sense to me if I hadn't dropped my formal logic class freshman year? Or are they, as they seem to be to me, functionally identical to reading Crowley's revelations?
There's a book about it! By @elsandifer.bsky.social, who was interviewed about Vance among other people a couple of years ago: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/05...
Author Elizabeth Sandifer explains the dangerous ideas of the far-right neoreactionaries, who have ties to Silicon Valley and a hostility toward democracy.
Shana tova to those celebrating Rosh Hashanah!
oh HELL yeah, thank you for the tip!!
Your honor, I love them
The whole rationalist movement seems like an underrated element of the 2010s internet soup that spawned Gamergate and the intellectual dark web, and I know enough to kind of see the shape of what happened but not the details.
Man, I would really love to read a deep dive either on the creation of HPMoR and its consequences, or an analysis of the work itself.
the october surprise is october being tomorrow
