Epistemic status: it's aphids, man, aphids everywhere. I asked ChatGPT. They're aphids. They're in my hair, on my skin, in my lungs. And the pain, Barris, it's unreasonable. They're all over the place. Oh, they've completely gotten Millie too.

Yeah, as somebody who actually thinks the Epistemic status stuff isnt a bad idea.

'look at how they massacred my boy'

This feels like an attempt to create an ethical framework that supports overruling people's actual freedom of choice in favor of a technocratic vision of what you should choose, and while I can understand the frustration with people doing dumb shit, the problem comes in when "joining a cult preaching rationality and then trying to avert the robot apocalypse by bringing about a slightly different flavor of robot apocalypse" is, to many educated folks, a pretty strong example of stupid shit people do, while to them "ignore the oncoming robot apocalypse because you're too irrational to see the obvious truth that we're all gonna be simutortired by the basilisk forever!" would presumably make the list.

Also I guess texting your friend to say "Yo we're out of OJ, is lemonade alright?" is unironically praxis now?

It is a bit more than that: CEV is what he would want if he were wiser and less confused. Yudkowsky's vision was that we want a lot of things which are contradictory or conflict with others or will make us sad, but Friend Computer could sort that out. But talking your friend into going to an event or trying a new food which she actually likes when she tries it is definitely in the spirit.

In knavin'

Putin is lucky that Needy Amin's stupid attack on Iran pushed his invasion of Ukraine down to the 2nd most idiotic military adventure so far in the 21st century.

Look, before that, he had a decent hand. Russia was a 2nd or 3rd rate power, but no-one knew it, because the shiny armed forces were just seen on parades. He was getting a decent chunk of cash from fossil fuels, Russia was a good place to do shady business in , and he and his freidns could stash all that money in UK and US banks and send their kids to university there. Every alt-right party could count on some rubles getting sent to them.

So he wasn't Peter the Great, but he wasn't some boyar losing battles with the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth either.

In 6 or 12 months, Zelensky would be brought down by a combination of corruption and or shitty economy, and some Russia-friendly oligarch would use Russian disinfo to get elected and tie Ukraine even closer to Russia. But he just couldn't stand that somewhere there were Ukraine kids getting an education in Ukrainian and where the Holodomor was part of the curriculum.