Glad to see that Srinivasan is doing the good lord’s work of convincing the world that VCs like Balaji Srinivasan are fundamentally unserious people with more money than sense and that the government should tax it away from them before the next round of grifters inevitably do.
It’s good that they’re offsetting their advantages in the marketplace of money by actively crippling themselves in the marketplace of ideas.
Crank magnetism?
They’re catching on that “big if true” is being recognized to mean “this is bullshit” so are trying to compensate by using more words.
Oh hey, did I ever actually post here? No? Whoops.
I blame the ghosts in between the machines.
I’m pretty sure US Army would designate it the M1.
Now why would you insult Peter Thiel like that. He’s made it his life’s work to become that personification and he’s worked very hard at it.
All I really have to add is that “MENSA with orgies” is both the kindest and meanest summation of the rationalist community I’ve ever heard.
I feel like this is one of those “no ethical consumption” things past a certain point. Directly interacting with the people you’re helping and increasing their available financial resources directly does give them more opportunities to work with you and express/meet their own needs, as opposed to the EA model where it’s the rich foreigners who know what you need and will give it to you regardless of what you think. That doesn’t change the fact that by actively traveling there he’s consuming resources and taking resources from that community at the same time, and it’s easy to do more harm than good in that sense, but I think the basic idea of “if you want to help, give money at the lowest possible level” is pretty defensible.
Hah! You think they actually put in place the infrastructure needed to support this asinine policy. If there aren’t enough people to get the affidavits signed then those kids can’t go expose themselves to dangerous ideas, presumably including “trans people exist” and “slavery was bad, actually”.
See also voter ID laws that just happen to come into effect as the DMV offices in poor and/or black neighborhoods close down. If they make it a sufficient pain in the ass they don’t have to take the legal or political flak for outright banning it.