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About the only good stuff LW does is remind me of other, much better SF. In this case Ian McDonald's Necroville (Terminal Café in the US), about a future where nanotech enables the resurrection of the dead. Said neo-living are of course discriminated against, have no human rights, and are used as cheap disposable labor by the corporation that uses the technology.

D'oh! I missed that connection, although the little infographic amoebas should have tipped me off

AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Plato's cave, scaring themselves witless:

https://www.emergent-values.ai/

At least I've IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs

MoreWronger is concerned that the shitty fanfic the community excretes is limited to LW and Xhitter and wonders if The Atlantic is a better venue

Look I have nothing against fanfic myself but if there's one powerful corrective it lacks, it is commercial content editorial feedback.

Credit where credit is due, this is a decent comeback

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005246

They didn't care much for marine life when they abandoned a tugboat, leavnig it to leak fuel and crap into the sea:

https://archive.ph/1UcWZ

they recently got a profile in fucking WaPo

Rats have reached the "put up stickers to proselytize" stage of their weird religion

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SvtKronRNrw9AxXwa/clement-l-s-shortform?commentId=ZifQXkhxo5dJvrL3Q

I bet that jacket is some super-nerdy thing that William Gibson once mentioned in a book

Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?

balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs

wow the sanewashing of trump in those threads is insane