I was content to damn them with faint praise and save everyone the hassle. EY is a reasonably good writer who repackaged a lot of good ideas (Kahneman et al) and came up with a lot of less impressive original ideas (all the parts you’ve highlighted, many more). His most enjoyable work was fiction.

I can’t speak for others but I’ve come to see the Less Wrong / hardline rationalist crowd as having had some interesting ideas despite the Sam Bankman Fried of it all. Rationalwiki can be rather snarky, but can be a good resource.

Social media doesn’t often reward kindness, but that’s what is needed. Show kindness to young men, when you can. They need better guidance.

It’s really that bad

There’s an argument to be made for both Repulsor and Favourable Beginnings.

Some bots do more hardcore living in one comment chain than I do in six months

Imagine if Vivaldi became a right wing meth addict internet troll; variations on a theme

OP said “what if the present was meta”

Sorry someone had a mental breakdown on your post

I’ve never been impressed with my fellow Americans who talk shit on the French. We have mostly let go of our revolutionary spirit, and they never did. We would do well to pick up where we left off at Blair mountain.

Russian state media said some worthless shit? Must be a slow news day

I’m a basic little shit so, I basically use a correct horse + number password for my PW manager

Rainbow tables and presumably newer stuff I haven’t heard of make this sort of thing weaker than it used to be

That’s the neat part, you don’t!

I deadname corporations run by transphobes

You’ve very helpfully put your finger on exactly what holds me back. If I found myself believing in a lost cause, I couldn’t bear to go on. I am too close to despair as it is, so I will spare myself the small indulgence of certainty.

Maybe if we could solve for plasma arc gasification plants to turn garbage into clean energy. But not presently

Every day I stray closer to being an anarcho-communist

The absolute state of irony these days

Wouldn’t really call what Putin or Xi has going on communism though, would you? They both operate stock exchanges and broadly private enterprise that systematically subjugates their working class while they constantly feel the need to expand their territory and purview of economic sway abroad. To me that sounds a lot like what we do when we talk about our capitalism.