Evinceo

How can these imaginary conversations be so long. I ain't reading all that. Congratulations, or sorry that that happened.

If only rationalist shaming helped reduce overthinking.

It's their fancy way of saying 'I think.'

Should be the header image or sidebar or whatever for this lemmy.

Every time a Rationalist mentions Von Neumann, take a shot.

AI turned out to be too hard, let's try aligning microbes.

HN: Just rinse out your mouth with water after eating and no cavities. Dentists hate this one weird trick.

Ok, read their actual pitch. Lmao they think that a one time introduction of a GMO bacteria strain is going to 'just work' because they've also GMO'd it to outcompete other bacteria?

There's a reason we aren't running our cars on yeast-produced gasoline. No matter how awesome your tuned microbe is, it's still subject to mutation and natural selection. If your beneficial changes aren't actually helping it survive, they will not be conserved. And those 'competitive' changes you jacked it up with to make sure it dominates the environment? Well, that might end up horizontally transferred into something you don't like.

About the right amount of 'we humans are smarter than dumb biology' metal-fetishism I'd expect from the folks concerned.

Also there's this obsession with calling this folly 'experimenting with government' as though they aren't always trying the exact same thing over and over again.

In before NY times article prints her real name complete with hissie fit followed by transition to Substack and total abandonment of mask of deniability.

You seem to have conflated libertarianism with some other philosophy like the Ayn Rand stuff

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