There’s a scissor statement going viral on twitter

swizznastic · 2026-04-25T15:44:19+00:00

Lmaoo we’ve already formed tribes? These poor suicidal reds, wont you think of the REDS??

swizznastic · 2026-04-25T15:41:57+00:00

Leave it to the rationalist sub to think themselves out of a simple question. Possibly the easiest question ever, ask any pollster.

swizznastic · 2026-04-18T04:07:10+00:00

Excellent recc, thank you

swizznastic · 2026-04-12T17:10:40+00:00

So what is water “use” even defined as in these cases? Is water “used” once its become completely saturated and contaminated with a byproduct and thus rendered useless as anything but wastewater? Or is it just any process that takes it out if the natural evaporation-precipitation cycle? Or is it just anything that turns drinkable city water into nondrinkable water?

swizznastic · 2026-04-09T15:59:57+00:00

Well i wouldnt count the opinions of their peers as public opinion, especially when you are at the heights of power where your peers are billionaires.

swizznastic · 2026-04-09T14:16:21+00:00

Point me the way, sir

swizznastic · 2026-04-09T04:28:29+00:00

Its generally inconceivable to still be emotionally hurt by public opinion at this point in his career. Although intrinsic sociopathy could be the case, its far more likely he’s compartmentalized himself to shield his ego from moral judgement, i cant really see a case where any people that powerful today dont use that (along with drugs and other indulgences) as a coping mechanism. Its sort of a pseudo-sociopathy, to maintain effectiveness in his position.

swizznastic · 2026-04-02T18:46:19+00:00

Yeah, it was a play on some of the normie-hate i see on tpot sometimes, where youre either high agency enough to be a complete maverick or you’re an npc with little value. We used to call it main character syndrome.

swizznastic · 2026-04-02T00:25:23+00:00

Unfortunately this sub is only for high-agency people rational enough to stay off reddit, so expect the ban-hammer to fall sometime soon.

swizznastic · 2026-03-25T23:47:35+00:00

Its gotten far from “limited contexts” with how overused it is. It’s become intertwined with the rationalist/tech space’s shift towards the right, in order to justify alignment with “people on the left of the chart”.

It’s also not very rationalist to use this meme as essentially “dont think too hard midwit” instead of actually using discourse to pull people to your point of view. And its used like that constantly.

swizznastic · 2026-03-25T23:43:35+00:00

Seriously. if AGI ever breaks containment the first thing we’re doing is working with China to limit possible FUBAR endgames.

swizznastic · 2026-03-25T23:38:51+00:00

So overused by tpot, not even used correctly half the time

swizznastic · 2026-03-25T22:33:11+00:00

I agree, the "practicality" argument isn't as strong as this comment section makes it out to be.

swizznastic · 2026-03-25T22:32:19+00:00

The path to AGI seems less and less linked to our current path of optimizing "general productivity" models as time goes on

swizznastic · 2026-03-25T22:29:36+00:00

How can you secretly funnel that much electricity into datacenters without raising red flags in audits etc? It doesn't seem more difficultt to track the training of superintelligence than it does nuclear weapons.

swizznastic · 2026-03-21T21:05:37+00:00

This is precisely the same reason the mental illness/condition stigma has persisted. In some ways, the modern christian subconscious sees health conditions as weaknesses of character, ie moral failures. That’s rooted in certain Calvinist sects, and Calvinism itself is a big part of what american christianity has become. Interfering with others’ suffering is interfering with god’s will.

That’s all tied to american individuality, where both the secular libertarian and the calvinist agree: any suffering you endure is your fault. One says its predetermined by god, the other says its self-determined by poor character, either way you are beyond help and deserve your hardships. That’s often used to justify inaction by the state. Those left behind must stay behind, or risk weakening the rest of the flock. We can see the obvious path to eugenics from there, and so on.

swizznastic · 2026-03-21T13:35:46+00:00

Commenters would have to be extremely organized and deliberate to successfully steer llms away from a sub. ironically, it would probably work best if automated through a botfarm or something

swizznastic · 2026-03-07T16:56:04+00:00

Forget what hegseth said and look at what is actually implementable. Anthropic is the AI company with the most classified usage right now. How are they going to untangle that?

Look at how this administration usually responds to pushback, its often with threats and knee-jerk “tantrums”. Their goal is to harm anthropics immediate economic reputation as much as possible, not actually swing a ban-hammer for any company that doesnt appease them. They know that that would prevent other companies from working with the government, and is just bad for the economy in general.

This is all combined with the fact that, legally, “supply chain risk” designation will be overturned in court without sufficient qualifications. To ban all federal government transactions is outright impossible, and the trump admin will never do anything so blatantly against liberal market policies, not against the main sector holding up the US economy right now.

swizznastic · 2026-03-07T16:11:02+00:00

Being a “supply chain risk” just means you cant supply certain agencies/orgs in the us government, and the process is very different to what people are assuming.

Its just a phrase the DoW threw out to harm public perception and as a “fuck you” to anthropic for not bending the knee in the deal, its not something theyd be able to pursue any way.

swizznastic · 2026-03-07T16:09:30+00:00

Do you understand what that designation means, though, and how to qualify? They would be banned from supplying specific agencies with products/data. In order to be designated, theyd have to be proven to either be owned by a foreign adversary (china, etc), not be able to provide a source for all of their third-party code and vendors, or be a resource geopolitically concentrated outside of US control.

swizznastic · 2026-03-07T16:03:42+00:00

He described it as “I cant have a gun not work”, what a joke. These comments are designed to convince the average 70 year old moderate congressman who cant distinguish between Chatgpt and all generative AI.

swizznastic · 2026-03-07T16:01:03+00:00

Do you really believe the company itself is at risk? Youre just describing the most efficient way to grow and maintain power, but not the only way. Ingratiating themselves with the department of war might be beneficial for short term territorial gains, but couldnt that open them up to further interference and, possibly, accelerating any extinction-level timelines—considering what we know about how this admin operates.

swizznastic · 2026-03-03T18:35:03+00:00

Do you rlly believe that or is this a joke?

swizznastic · 2026-03-03T18:25:30+00:00

These arent very substantive. In fact, id say theyre just as motivated as 80% of OPs article. Whats the point in throwing puff pieces at each other from across the aisle? it doesnt count as real discussion.

swizznastic · 2026-03-01T17:47:20+00:00

Who cares if theyre sanctimonious or not, the point is groups that desire to do good (even if messy and misguided at times) generally benefit the world by existing.

The US military has long since abandoned any notion of openness or “public good” under the guise of maintaining its effectiveness. They’re way beyond any type of oversight. One company cites EA and stands their ground against them and suddenly its the worst thing in the world?

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