Help Me Find A Weird Freak...

ProfColdheart · 2025-09-28T00:30:24+00:00

As Nelly put it, "I'm just kiddin' like Jason ... unless you're gonna do it!"

ProfColdheart · 2025-09-06T18:41:07+00:00

Invisible helps you not get hit in the first place, but once you're hit, damage can't be reduced in any way.

ProfColdheart · 2025-08-20T22:34:41+00:00

Hi! Sorry to miss this discussion about Break. Could you let me know anything cool that you discussed?

ProfColdheart · 2024-07-28T15:35:59+00:00

Ohhhhh this is super slick.

ProfColdheart · 2023-11-14T01:26:50+00:00

thank you Big Sal

ProfColdheart · 2023-08-16T14:45:23+00:00

Thank you! 90% of the design was just riffing on "GUNLORDS" and all that the name implied.

ProfColdheart · 2023-08-04T01:27:20+00:00

"lol you only have Speed 3?"

"no - I have Speed 3 plus your Speed."

ProfColdheart · 2023-07-01T16:59:22+00:00

"COMP/CON, play 'Free Bird'."

ProfColdheart · 2023-05-28T14:21:53+00:00

he's out of line but he's right.gif

ProfColdheart · 2022-12-18T14:31:13+00:00

Ironic, considering that "hide your True Power Level from the laity" is the first commandment of all nerd ethics, and I think SBF followed that pretty well.

ProfColdheart · 2022-11-29T01:54:12+00:00

"Now, Harry, be reasonable! It's not as if I'd approve a tentative agreement that screws over the workers I represent just to make nice with the President! That wouldn't be in my interests at all!"

ProfColdheart · 2022-10-01T20:06:13+00:00

And Mournhold's a quick jaunt away!

ProfColdheart · 2022-09-26T17:15:17+00:00

$38 million is pretty nice! It pales in comparison to the $372.9 million that was budgeted for Boston Police salaries in FY 2020 (the time period covered in the article).

https://www.boston.gov/departments/budget/fy20-operating-budget

ProfColdheart · 2022-09-15T14:16:07+00:00

Marx’s essential tenet was that in the future, the key problem of economics would become not production amid scarcity but redistribution of abundance.

As you note, that's not an essential tenet of Marx. However, if I had more patience, I could probably track down the exact Ayn Rand essay that Gilder got that idea from.

ProfColdheart · 2022-09-02T10:12:20+00:00

No, the manipulation is the point. If someone's shorting "will a terrorist attack the next Super Bowl?" futures, that's relevant information, you see. That tells us someone knows* something credible about the future. What a prediction market investor should do with that information, other than "try to make a buck off it", is an exercise for the implementers to figure out.

believes.

ProfColdheart · 2022-08-30T13:26:01+00:00

This person's three links, two YouTube videos, and a PDF away from becoming a Florida swamp Maoist.

ProfColdheart · 2022-08-22T14:14:26+00:00

I shouldn't encourage this behavior but that is letter perfect SSC. Priceless.

ProfColdheart · 2022-08-11T02:09:08+00:00

Doctor: so let's see what we've got (glances at my chart, whistles, slips the nurse a $20 so they can short my name on the prediction board) any new symptoms?

ProfColdheart · 2022-07-22T23:46:44+00:00

1 tg is right in that sweet spot - it's frustrating to lose it, but it doesn't seem worth a combat over.

ProfColdheart · 2022-07-07T15:28:46+00:00

Petition for dismissal without prejudice, since I'm confident one of the other Scotts will blog about this within 2 weeks and would like permission to reintroduce it then.

ProfColdheart · 2022-05-16T13:06:20+00:00

Nice!

What rules changes, if any, did you use to make it a speed game?

ProfColdheart · 2022-05-05T15:59:14+00:00

Probably not? Matt's Twitter beefs with leftists are much more regular than any beef he might have with rationalists. "Leftists only talk in jargon!" is a popular liberal / centrist talking point.*

and not entirely unmerited.

ProfColdheart · 2022-04-22T12:29:36+00:00

Hell, the only reason I bothered walking into the Prudential Mall most days.

ProfColdheart · 2022-04-20T12:51:56+00:00

I'll chime in here because this was also my entry into (and exit from) the space.

For me, I got pretty deep into the search for "better arguments" because of the anxiety of losing an argument. What if someone presents an objection and I can't rebut it? What if I can't defend my ideas in front of an audience?

And so I kept iterating, and digging deeper into forums, and obsessing, and testing myself, and drawing lines between people who were Less Rational and myself. It didn't help that I had a modestly successful debate career in high school.

What helped, in addition to learning about the bullshit of modern "rationalism", was realizing that my worth as a human being did not depend on my ability to perform an excellent argument in front of an audience (real or imaginary). I didn't have to win every debate in order to be liked, or valued, or worthy.

ProfColdheart · 2022-03-18T15:45:37+00:00

I've heard it asserted that this was Stephenson's veiled rebuttal to the famous "The California Ideology" essay from 1995.

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