why the fuck is CIAnaggery word filtered
/moldbug/
Jacob Wright
William Miller
Mathematics is also glorified plumbing, connect some variables together with standardized axioms designed by other people long ago.
Lucas Butler
I can see some neoreactionary stuff as worth reading with a boatload of salt, but moldbug has always seemed the least interesting.
Maybe it's because he's the most obvious whiny STEM type who thinks skill in one field translates to skill in understanding others, while most of the Twitter weirdos are at least properly pseudonymous.
Granted, my key takeways have been some funny notes on the nightmare of modern californiapitalism (wokecapital, though the bigotry is tedious, and humansofflat.) and the value of exit. If things aren't working, put in a moderate effort to fix them and if that doesn't work fucking leave. That's a valuable lesson in the internet age. Hanging around is pathological.
Brayden Flores
Their is nothing more annoying than seeing fags who major is the liberal arts talk down to STEMfags. STEMfags built the internet, liberal arts majors built mud pies.
Gabriel Thompson
the prosecution rests, yiff in hell.
Jordan Ross
Moldbug vs. Cockshott debate when
Parker Brown
as a cs fag, let me tell you that 70% of the people in the field are barely able to qualify as software engineers and I'm being very generous. of the rest, most are incapable of real innovation and are not really interested in the art and science of cs. most are just mindless workers, who at best make shitty JavaScript libraries, have shit pet projects and get off on making blog posts about it.
I've worked for big tech and most of the work being done is just building new apps and maintenance, which results in 0 innovation. Real innovation is usually poor quality because it started as a side project which didn't have full funding because burocracy (sp?) and rarely becomes marketable.
The people who do code spend a lot of the time fooling around and attending superfluous meetings. The managers spend most of their time in meetings that don't actually cause meaningful change to the projects. The project managers usually just try as hard as possible to look busy. Some teams do have a lot of work, and the successful teams convince workers to work overtime. they live under the constant illusion that their work is extremely important and extremely urgent. It's all a fantasy of course.
To be clear, I'm not even that good as a software engineer, but no reason to kid ourselves either.
Liberal arts majors usually end up in shitty paper pushing jobs. We're all just chugging the machine along, there's honestly little difference on the grand scheme of things.
Xavier Adams
t porky’s anti-worker rhetoric
The point is they produce value. Socdem academics don’t produce value.
Daniel Bell
ah yes, creating advertising algorithms and fart noise apps is definitely creating value while designing higher education funding systems is just nonsense game playing by posers.
marx was socdem (academic)
Ethan Moore
I started watching an introduction video on him and his work.
He seems to believe that history favors right-wing politics rather than left-wing, and the idea of a "progressive" narrative is a recon by the left. Of course the author of the video (or Moldbug apparently) fully define what they mean by left or right, nor do they have any kind of material analysis as to why this would happen in the first place, just the typical fash narrative of "power good, nation good."
I work in big tech, and holy fuck is this accurate, right down to the liberal arts majors in the shitty paper pusher job my job :(