He doesn’t believe in Germ theory. He’s utterly deranged. The grift is alternative medicine, but I don’t know if he really understands that it’s a grift. His bosses surely do, but they just want to inflict as much punishment on institutions as possible.

Had people concern trolling about this guy repeatedly on Reddit. It’s like bro he was on the Human Biodiversity Institute mailing list and all but brags about race science at Harvard in his trump-fluffing NYT piece.

That’s basically the Rationalist story tbh. Read banks, it went right over their head, and now they see hostile Minds around every corner.

Imagine if it was trying to build a feature for a client who needs to look at a demo every time.

You can definitely learn how to code, I believe in you.

Under no circumstances allow your US Citizen self to be illegally detained by ICE I guess.

he’s got that hybrid vigor

What the actual fuck do these people believe???

If I had to summarize it, they believe in scifi handwaves and have taken them far beyond mere logical conclusions.

From the US department of not beating those allegations.

What’s the Rationalist reaction to these developments? Are there any vestigial AI-fearers that haven’t switched over to straight up Phrenology like Slatescott and are currently genuinely still worried about the apocalypse because of this?

OSI is gonna mandate that we call it open source now, didn’t ya hear?

Can’t people run it locally supposedly?

Awesome, I no longer have to link to leaked emails to convince people he’s a phrenologist, he just went and wrote a nice succinct article laying it out.

I didn’t think today was gonna be a day where I’d read about sounding then breaking glass rods but here we are.

Fuck lmfao 🤣

That was way back in 2007. Probably close to when I read his stuff… but even then he was clearly still clinging to the Halloween Letters and seemed extremely old school.

Emphasis on used to. He worked fairly hard at becoming a household name, but ultimately his fame was pretty brief. Stallman achieved meme status, love him or hate him. Torvalds actually ships shit people use. There’s just no discourse around Raymond these days, good or bad.

Every once in a while someone trips over one of the pitons he’s driven into the wall of FOSS to try and climb it, discovers his abysmal takes, amd everyone promptly forgets about him again.

You’re being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.

Least insane ESR post

They’re gonna ruin cities by further limiting the rights of pedestrians to work around their mediocre programming.