Kind of a fluff story (archive) where salty’s douchiness is on full display.

I referenced it because fake book titles are throwaway jokes, you can reference something hyperspecific and not have to worry about whether or not someone will get it, because they might not even notice it at all.

The spectre of Marx nods in approval

Ah, gotcha. fwiw I wasn’t saying that to say “joyless people are bad”; burnout also tends to look like joylessness.

Man, knowing nothing else about your coworker, they sound like a completely joyless person. Coming up with fake titles for things is like, such a high fun-to-effort ratio. “Creativity and the essence of Human Experience” by Chat GPT. Boom, there’s one. “Cooking With Olive Oil” by Sam Altman. “IQ184” by Harukiezer Murakowsky. This is so fun and easy that it’s basically hack outside of situations where it is solicited.

Putting cream in my carbonara to see how my 8K 120Hz Nonna reacts

Well unfortunately it’s not diluted enough to be homeopathic, so it’s just off³ broadway

My current iteration of the etymology is that “dath ilani” anagrams to “HD Italian”. As in, the dath ilani are an idealised version of Italians, making dath ilan a utopian version of Italy.

there’s No Such Feasible Way for that imo

FWIW my understanding is the “Off”-ness is just decreasing theatre size, but gets (mis)construed as less prestige/fame/quality etc. Fame is probably fine for construing, but prestige/quality is orthogonal. Like you could conceivably have absolute theatre mega stars do an epoch-defining production in an intimate 50-seat theatre or something, and that would still be “Off-off-broadway”.

OH that Jack Thompson. Yeah I remember now. Man, on one hand, his actions were at best misguided and at worst totally insane. On the other hand, IMO we wouldn’t know about him if video game people were by any measure calm or reasonable.

I don’t know who Jack Thompson is, so just pretend that I came up with some incredible, witty interleaving of references to waiting for godot, the torment nexus meme, and Jack Thompson

The one that includes this:

So I responded in the SL4 (which for the life of me I can’t dig up) & went to the trouble of emailing Yudkowski directly, explaining that 1) no I didn’t write about your life but 2) if you happen to be in NYC, I’d love it if he’d attend the play. I also attached a copy of the script in the email 7/x

(which is way more good faith than Yud deserves, btw)

I thought “yeah, in Yud’s position […]

Best stop this thinking before you suffer the same levels of delusion of reference and/or grandeur.

Satire warning!!! 🚨🚨🚨 You have been warned!!!

Some great tips for using ChatGPT to stop being a “Brain only” person to a fully optimised person!

Well you would because, like Yud, you jumped to your own conclusions without actually reading the fucking article.

it would be very funny if Rocco Basilico’s legacy was that his name bore resemblance to Roko Basilisk and nothing else

It is well known that the Marketplace Of Ideas is Zero Sum

easter egg: contains a link to sneersub, specifically this

Uh I think we are very quickly and dangerously approaching Dawkinsian Meme Theory

Tech take from the near future: Podcast life begins at conception i.e. the instant one thinks the inside thoughts should be outside