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"As always, pedophilia is not the same as ephebophilia." - Eliezer Yudkowsky, actual quote (www.lesswrong.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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I somehow missed this one until now. Apparently it was once mentioned in the comments on the old sneerclub but I don't think it got a proper post, and I think it deserves one.

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

oh also, Tlon, the company behind urbit that certainly isn’t just Yarvin and Thiel hiding behind a shrub giggling, is a cult accelerator responsible for at least one high-profile death cult (Remilia, who host a bunch of infrastructure on urbit and are extremely active in the urbit community)

just in case you wondered if this rabbit hole led anywhere remotely sane

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Graydon Hoare pointed out on Mastodon (and more) that Urbit was in fact the Antiversity that Moldbug conspicuously failed to write up in the Unqualified Reservations days.

    He believes Urbit will perform the social control function that he thinks universities perform.

    You have to unpack a few zillion very dumb social assumptions there. (Or, y'know, not.)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @dgerard Oh, the Antiversity! I remember that. I think it was one of the first Lovecraftian horrors I was exposed to when I first started to take an interest in this particular rabbithole of weird.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    El Sandifer and I just could not work out what the arsing fuck Yarvin was going on about there, El worked way too hard trying to track it down, and eventually we decided he just failed to write it despite taking people's money to. Kicking myself we didn't work out it was Urbit.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @self So basically it's like a science fiction novel, except that they haven't realised that it's one of those novels where the author develops an entire society based on some weird totalitarian cult just so they can spend the rest of the plot demonstrating how nutso said society is?

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