Rationalist check-list:

  1. Incorrect use of analogy? Check.
  2. Pseudoscientific nonsense used to make your point seem more profound? Check.
  3. Tortured use of probability estimates? Check.
  4. Over-long description of a point that could just have easily been made in 1 sentence? Check.

This email by SBF is basically one big malapropism.

    • @swlabr@awful.systems
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      82 years ago

      Alts for SBF’s usage of “uncanny valley” he can have for free if he promises not to use “uncanny valley” incorrectly ever again:

      • amiss abyss
      • stench trench
      • uncomfortable gorge/fjord
      • communication fail vale
      • canyon of “can you meet me in the middle”

      It’s 100 BTC if he wants to keep misusing it though.

    • @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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      62 years ago

      Especially since everybody knows that the real smart word is “whomst’ve”. Just using “whom” is like being an alpha-male in a turbo-enby world.