davidspies

I don't see what technical work there is to do at this point. It seems like it's all political

Does Nate Soares believe that successionists aren't real?

I went to a Q&A where every time a successionist argument was brought up he seemed to insist that person was confused.

eg. About the two meanings of "good": It's "good" to believe 2+2=4 and it's "good" to save a child from a burning building. It seemed to me like the successionist-questioning person he was arguing with understood him just fine, but he kept insisting they didn't understand anyway. I brought up a very, very clear tweet from a successionist who definitely wasn't confused and Nate still insisted they were confused.

Berkeley has lots of vegan food in comparison to most places and lots of rationalists are vegans.

I wonder if commenter 2 had been given a code themselves, would the site still have gone down? They likely would have been less incentivized to sabotage the experiment simply because it's no longer a challenge. I suspect they were primarily motivated by the excitement of successfully trolling/red-teaming LW. It's not fun when the admin gives you an easy way to do it, but if it's challenge (you have to fool someone to take the site down), then that's a different story.

So perhaps the problem is not that the launch codes were given to too many people but rather to too few.

This game is worth playing if you still haven't. I promise you it has a satisfying ending

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

This is why I play Beat Saber. Despite being a form of exercise, it's never stopped feeling like a video game. And I've found I can keep up a video game routine much more easily than I can keep up an exercise routine.