Plausible origin story: El Reg -> Slashdot -> Kurzweil -> SIAI -> LW -> HN -> blog -> -> twitter -> -> now I live here among all of you lovely chums and cetera
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mine’s like
??? -> one zillion blogs -> ??? -> twitter somehow?? -> liked a tweet of mine once -> here i am
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banana is captain america of ribbonfarm blogamatic universe
I'm increasingly being turned into hawkeye... random drive-by potshots at things with trick arrows
sadly we have no billionaire iron man bankrolling our ops yet
is incredible hulk beating up rationalists
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now we have to map rationalists to DC universe of course
peter thiel is bruce wayne
elezier is superman
bostrom is green arrow or something
scott alexander is flash
julia galef is wonder woman
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I was just thinking SA = Green Lantern but I didn't say it. I don't know Flash's backstory
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I mean Eliezer is Adrian Veidt but the comparison is so apt it's not even funny
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Well, in DC universe according to its internal mythos at least. We are all subcultural relativists here.
Wait is watchmen part of DC universe at all?
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