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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. peppermint bmo‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27
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      peppermint bmo Retweeted Zero HP Lovecraft

      I would guess that the median postrat is better at math than the median rat Incidentallyhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1276139442114375682 …

      peppermint bmo added,

      Zero HP Lovecraft @0x49fa98
      There are rationalists who came for the math, and let yud backdoor them into broken moral theories. There are rationalists who came for the gay moral theory and put up with the math. Post-rats tend to be the latter sort.
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    2. Zero HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jun 27
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      Replying to @eigenrobot

      I can only go by people I see identifying as "postrat" on the internet, they strike me as overall the least stemful of the lesswrong diaspora

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    3. peppermint bmo‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27
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      I think we mostly do that at our day jobs a plurality of the ones I know went to MIT and work in tech as DS or similar but who wants to talk about that shit after work that is our JOBS

      2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
    4. Zero HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jun 27
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      Replying to @eigenrobot

      I mean I know you are in tech in some capacity, probably an engineer? Maybe I have the wrong sense of who the postrats are, what, in your opionion, are their schelling points?

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    5. peppermint bmo‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27
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      esoteric shitposting, aesthetic theory, dunking on rats, drinking

      2 replies 1 retweet 33 likes
    6. Zero HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jun 27
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      Replying to @eigenrobot

      OK but is there like, a forum, a blog? Can anyone just call themself a postrat?

      2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    7. peppermint bmo‏ @eigenrobot Jun 27
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      Anyone can call themselves such but not everyone goes to the occasional events There are secret forums, very much not publicly facing, but most work is disseminated through twitter Most read @Meaningness and @literalbanana and similar (but not @vgr) Mostly it's the friends we

      2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    8. Timothy #masks4all Roy‏ @coyotespike Jun 27
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      Replying to @eigenrobot @0x49fa98 and

      vgr is at least metarat-adjacent lol

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 27
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      too late you’re all now on my shitlist alongside the og rationalistshttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1277076777731371010?s=21 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      the robot has officially excommunicated me fine I’ll make my own aesthetics ideology, with blackjack, and hookers in fact, forget the aesthetics ideology https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1277074178286317569 …
      8:46 PM - 27 Jun 2020
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