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For those unaware, Undeadly.org is a very unusually engineered site. It's written in C, and it runs under FastCGI on OpenBSD's (edit: home-grown) httpd.

Supposedly Spez was made a mod of that subreddit by a troll who exploited a bug/feature that allowed you to make anyone a mod of your subreddit. However reddit did host that community for years (Spez claimed the creep mods were helpful in flagging cp throughout the site), and it's ironic you mention "problematic" communities migrating to 4chan in the same context, since 4chan takes a much harsher stance on the sexualization of minors than reddit. KiwiFarms even more so.

> You really don't want reddit users here

No one wants reddit users.

> futurology(18m),

I had no idea futurology was that big. I remember years ago when it used to be a singularity/life-extension/transhumanist subreddit, and then it got brigaded by climate change activists, to the point that most of the articles on the front page were about clean energy, rising sea levels, and recycling. Also a lot of doomer types actually bemoaning life extension outright, because of the usual nonsense about "where will we put ALL THE PEOPLE" and "Drump will live FOREVER." I stopped checking it out years ago, but it serves as a case study of how entryists co-opt and destroy online communities.

How many Funkos do you own?

ICEs have numerous inherent disadvantage over EVs, including more moving parts and higher and more frequent maintenance costs, and are inevitably going to be displaced by EVs, provided electricity is cheap enough (and probably some battery tech advances).

Right now, natural gas is dirt-cheap, plentiful, and relatively clean, and can provide the cheap electricity needed for EVs.

If geoengineering worked, was safe, and was much more affordable than meeting the aggressive greenhouse emission reduction targets needed to forestall further warming, climate activists would still oppose it anyway, since they've come to view the burning of fossil fuels as inherently immoral, in an almost religious-like manner. They'll say things like

> that still doesn't solve our addiction to fossil fuels!

why do we need to "solve" our addiction to fossil fuels? If we can geoengineer away the consequences and keep using cheap, plentiful fossil fuels (which our entire modern lifestyle is built on), then what's the problem? Eventually, probably by the end of this century, renewables will win out anyway. For example, if fusion ever pans out, that will probably do to fossil fuels collectively what natural gas did to thermal coal.

> What the problem with Lex Fridman?

It's pretty clear he's playing up some kind of "rainman autistic AI savant" persona, and also, he exaggerates his credentials. On his website he describes himself as:

>AI researcher working on autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction, and machine learning at MIT and beyond

Which could lead one to erroneously assume that he attended MIT, or even has a degree from MIT, when neither of which are true.

As a silver lining, perhaps the cash-grab, zero value-added clones will no longer clutter our google results?

I post on a handful of niche reddits (science/tech, not porn, like the average redditor), and the user experience is abysmal. Besides the upvoting/downvoting nonsense and imperious mods, half the time my posts get caught in the spam filter (despite my account being 5+ years old), and I have to check incognito mode to see if they showed up, and message the mods.

At the very least, it's nice to know that rather than a lukewarm welcome, any would-be Eternal Septemberists will be met with "kys leddit spacing, phoneposting, ******" should they try 4chan as an alternative.

As with the Carthaginians, it was also long-fashionable to downplay or even deny Mesoamerican human sacrifice, until the weight of the archeological evidence corroborating the scale of the Conquistadors' accounts became too great: https://www.science.org/content/article/feeding-gods-hundred...

> A lot of things are claimed by researchers in the soft sciences, and I take all of it with a grain of salt

The "soft sciences" have a strong left-wing bias in general (c.f. Haidt), and if anything, the tendency would be to want to downplay the atrocities perpetrated by non-whites, so your skepticism seems misdirected.

See: https://ooni.org/post/2022-quick-look-quic-censorship/

I assume Google and co. will fix this if it ever starts to seriously benefit platforms like KiwiFarms, which in the last year was being blocked by CenturyLink, a major US ISP. I also predict these QUICfixes will be met with broad enthusiasm by HNers.

Are you two talking about me? The irony in my "defense" of him was anything but subtle, and you should have had no difficulty construing my implication that he's a BS artist with a history of making obvious BS claims, like 34 lbs. of muscle in a month, to market himself and his products.

Alpha was also the first 64-bit processor Linux supported. AltaVista was originally just a tech demo for Alpha. The homepage, at least early versions, had little "AlphaPowered" graphics on it.

> bullshitter

No, he's not a bulshitter. It's just his "hustle." Totally different. Or in the YC/PG sense, he's a bit "naughty": http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

Right now, you're being mean (and I guess I am, as well), and we should be mindful of the fact that Mean People Fail: http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html

Nice people like Tim succeed.

I never implied he used steroids. His claims of muscle gain were never rigorously, independently verified, and were likely invented partially or whole-cloth. He named a researcher at San Jose State University, and said she did hydro-static before/after measurements confirming his results, and she apparently took issue with him using her name and institution for commercial purposes, and also couldn't publicly disclose and confirm his purported results due to the terms of the consent form he signed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100335

Ultimately we have no before/after DEXA scan confirming any muscle gain in any timeframe, and just Tim's word and some questionable before/after photos. And even with copious steroids, 34 lbs. of muscle in a month would be insane.

He's a human optimization expert, totally legitimate, and not a snakeoil salesman, who just so happened to put on 34 lbs of muscle IN A MONTH following a style of training, HIT (not to be confused with HIIT cardio), that the scientific literature has largely debunked, that was used as a marketing ploy to sell exercise machines and ultimately a company (Nautilus), and has historically only been used and promoted by a small minority of bodybuilders, the most famous of whom (Mentzer & Yates) may not have even used it, and were voracious users of PEDs even by professional bodybuilder standards (Mentzer used meth before workouts, and died at 49 of a heart attack). As Tim describes (can't link to it without getting caught in the spam filter):

> I weighed 152 lbs. for four years of high school, and after training in tango in Buenos Aires in 2005, that had withered to 146 lbs. Upon returning to the US, I performed an exhaustive analysis of muscular hypertrophy (growth) research and exercise protocols, ignoring what was popular to examine the hard science. The end result? I gained 34 lbs. of muscle, while losing 3 lbs. of fat, in 28 days.

He's written a series of human optimization guides, including the 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. Totally legit.