He doesn’t like it.

And this is their reply:

I still think this is hyperbole

Followed by ten thousand words that I’m not reading

Lol that money went to buy 20,000 copies of HPMOR

Thank you for doing god’s work

Completely optional

The DEA has authority to schedule marijuana, it doesn’t require legislation.

At this point I think there’s a pathological lack of insight going on with Zack.

Quickly recapping my Whole Dumb Story so far: ever since puberty, I’ve had this obsessive sexual fantasy about being magically transformed into a woman, which got contextualized by these life-changing Sequences of blog posts by Eliezer Yudkowsky that taught me (amongst many other things) how fundamentally disconnected from reality my fantasy was. So it came as a huge surprise when, around 2016, the “rationalist” community that had formed around the Sequences seemingly unanimously decided that guys like me might actually be women in some unspecified metaphysical sense.

Goddamn, what an opening. I really hope this is an elaborate troll and not someone driven insane by internet transphobia and the Sequences.

Not gonna all read that, though.

There’s a reason he took the coward’s way out. Would have been much better to have held him accountable until the day he dies.

We just need a big LLM to contain the potentially dangerous LLM, and a bigger LLM to contain that.

Exactly if they really have a problem with it they should just throw a start up at it and quit bitching

Have we considered that we’re wrong for criminalizing the smartest and most philanthropic people on planet?

Both those comments are voted down and replies aren’t agreeing.

They weren’t when I posted them.

HN has its biases and problems, but I think you’re misrepresenting it.

No I’m not.

Oh and link to the entire thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38979970

No, I’m linking the posts with the actual content in the OP.

Federating was a mistake.

Read a book by yourself or join a cult where people will pat you on the back for being Really Smart™ for writing long blog posts?

God it feels so fucking good not knowing who any of these idiots are, time to ruin that feeling forever

P(Doom) is calculated by however you were feeling that particular morning.

If this technocratic psycho was more concerned with actually contemplating the morality of the question, and less focused on rearranging the insides of a parrot, his takes might be a little less monstrous.

It’s always funny realizing those who think they’re asking the tough questions that others aren’t smart enough to consider only ever talk about the same handful of topics: putting down minorities, advocating white supremacy, whining about anyone to the left of Pinochet and fucking animals/kids.

Like that’s 95% of the content on the Motte or "I"DW.

What a bunch of fucking ghouls.

From the replies:

Thanks for this, really valuable work!

I’m curious what the qualitative description of child marriage usually looks like in these cases- I have two very rough mental images:

A 14 year-old girl learning very little at school/ barely attends school. She’s very unlikely to continue studying past the age of 16. Her (very low-income) parents struggle to continue supporting her and would rather she married earlier to reduce their burden and make a bit of bridewealth money (maybe to concentrate resources on another child). She gets married, her husband takes on responsibility for her (he might be more responsible/ caring than her parents), and her life outcomes don’t change much from if she were to get married at 17.

A 14 year-old girl is learning quite a lot at school. She dreams of going to college/ sixth-form/ university and could even afford to if she got a part-time job, but family/ cultural pressure leads her to get married early. She has a child at 15, is forced to stay in her village, and all of her plans go to waste.

Could it be that people like to imagine something more like the second scenario when the first is more common?

These people are completely fine with child marriage/rape if the kids didn’t do well in school like they did. Their ability to empathize completely breaks down the second it meets their contempt for non-nerds.

These are the psychopaths who think they’re effective altruists.

Lmao I thought this was satire

Also, why wouldn’t the messiah be a billionaire or pop star? My priors say God wouldn’t waste his time with the poors who have low reach and virtue