Notices by Leon P Smith (leon_p_smith@ioc.exchange)

@demallien @zzt Also Yarvin and UrBit. I was first "introduced" to UrBit quite early on, knew enough about PLT to know it was pretty low quality.

I read some other parts of the Moldbug blog, got a bad feeling about all of it, but I didn't read enough to find the really truly awful shit, some of which came later.

He hides his worst takes via a simply enormous quantity of words.

@inthehands I'm getting 302-redirected to not-found.domain.

I'm guessing if you put in the actual links they sent you, you'd get redirected elsewhere. Sketchy as hell.

@inthehands I mean, getting a college degree has been steadily becoming a lot more precarious over the last 25-30 years.

But I think there's a large segment of the business community, and almost the entire Republican party, that seem to have it out for anybody who has worked in a knowledge-based profession.

@dalias Many (most?) modern boomboxes can do this without any problem.

@futurebird @dalias maybe more typically right than X, but I specialize in weird shit that will get immediately and falsely labelled as incorrect by many/most normies.

I mean, I've even started leaning into that as a way to find new things... for example, when I observe that certain topics are resolutely no-go by conventional wisdom, and take that as a sign to go there and think about things carefully.

But I agree, I have never participated much with SE sites, as I hated the gamification of "oh you can't do *that* unless you have XXX internet points", but I've run into this phenomenon many times on reddit, even been downvoted into oblivion when I was absolutely correct and the other upvoted guy was absolutely incorrect.

@rsc personally I really like this take:

"In any other course of life, this is not normal behavior and it would not be tolerated. Open source has gotten to the point that normal behavior is so toxic that literal state actors posing as toxic people on mailing lists went undetected and could have brought upon an international security incident upon us."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf_6EVTlZOY

@philpem @jonathan @drewdevault

On the other hand, _some_ of the "ground" rules are incredibly inane and counterproductive. Not all, by any means.

I do agree that we cannot tolerate (most cases of) intolerance.

@drewdevault @philpem @jonathan Soft Rejection is in my estimation way too overused in US Culture. It's certainly warranted in a few circumstances, but it's also fetishicised by popular culture, and almost never leaves any room for reconciliation.

I mean, not all people are seeking reconciliation, and sometime total estrangement is the appropriate and necessary course of action, but it's also an option that in my estimation is too eagerly chosen in modern society.

Why can't we recognize and uplift each other's humanity? Why can't we find a way to use shame to bring reconciliation instead of fuel for estrangement?

@drewdevault @philpem @jonathan

Personally, odor hasn't been a huge or recurrent problem for me, but you do realize that most (everybody?) sincerely aren't capable of smelling themselves?

I've certainly remember the smells of classmates who probably don't deserve such a memory.

Not to mention that any memory of body odor has a natural advantage for rememberance, at least for most people.

The question I think is most ciritical, is how do you extend grace to others?

@inthehands then you have the connections between number theory and relativity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnS4hduP5xg

Is that connection relevant to anything? Probably, but I have no idea how.

@inthehands I've collected some notes about how I stumbled into this curiosity here:

https://github.com/constructive-symmetry/constructive-symmetry/blob/master/T002_Tools_of_Math_Construction/Part03_Aggregate_Theory.md