If we had a parliament, the “my minority position is secretly very popular” nonsense would be easier to dispel.

“You’re not a psychiatrist, you can’t diagnose him with NPD.”

Any prediction without an actionably narrow timeframe is useless.

He has to genuinely enjoy going fourteen thread levels deep with hamsterandsickle1917@bsky over whether arithmetic is a cia op. There’s no other explanation.

He has a tolerance for engaging with the most delusional people on the internet I will never understand.

You generally have good takes, but you should read these comment responses and learn something: It’s the price of housing.

Noah Smith is a half smart neurospicy guy and he lives in SF. Other than not working in tech, he's the ideal Rationalist recruit. They front as a kind of an autism support group but are just a reactionary pipeline. But his weeb thing had him one foot in the door already.

I made enough money to take a few years off and I was almost disappointed in myself when what I did was the same thing I did at work but for free.