@ESYudkowsky: Remember when you were a kid and thought you might have psychic powers, so you dealt yourself face-down playing cards and tried to guess whether they were red or black, and recorded your accuracy rate over several batches of tries?
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And then remember how you had absolutely no idea to do stats at that age, so you stayed confused for a while longer?
Apologies for the usage of the japanese; but it is a very apt description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chūnibyō,
17 Comments
maol@awful.systems · 8 pts · 3y
No matter where he went he would start a cult, wouldn't he. His belief in his own greatness is too strong. If it was the 1920s he'd be running a spiritualist church or something, if it was the 1970s he'd be running an LSD church or something, but unfortunately it's the here and now and he's running a computer church.
self@awful.systems · 6 pts · 3y
the computer church also occasionally does LSD
grumpybozo@toad.social · 2 pts · 3y
self@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
when your cult leader doesn’t understand tolerance so you have to start faking hallucinations after the first week
jonhendry@iosdev.space · 5 pts · 3y
@maol @zogwarg
20s/30s: Some kind of orgone-type thing based on radio waves.
GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems · 5 pts · 3y
He's the L. Ron Hubbard of our times, a sci-fi author turned cult leader of the information age just as Hubbard was for the space age.
cstross@wandering.shop · 5 pts · 3y
@GorillasAreForEating Yud is an SF author? Tell me more …
gerikson@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
For some reason this sent me into a Kilgore Trout rabbit hole
maol@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
Innit. Any word on him having links to satanists? At least those 50s cults inspired some interesting art. Can the same be said for the wonkish cult of EA?
gerikson@awful.systems · 5 pts · 3y
Long-ass blog posts are an art form, right?
maol@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
Wilhelm Reich's orgone stuff resulted in one cracking song 30 years later (orgone accumulator). Maybe we'll have to wait that long.
kuna@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
self@awful.systems · 3 pts · 3y
it’s weird I found out about Diaspora (also a really good book) from the rat-adjacent crowd posting excerpts on the orange site, but Egan keeps sneering at that portion of his fan base in his books
gerikson@awful.systems · 3 pts · 3y
I tried reading one Egan book (Incandescence) and had to give up because it was 90% infodump. Glad to see he's mocking rats though.
self@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
god damn, maybe my internalized ideal of a sci fi author is Asimov but not a shithead? depressing. I need better sci-fi
gerikson@awful.systems · 3 pts · 3y
no, the fault is mine. He's written tons, I tried this and bounced off it. I might take a look at Diaspora
swlabr@awful.systems · 7 pts · 3y
Inner? EY is 100% outwardly chuuni.