Baked into the Effective Altruist cake is not only the willingness to lie, but given their beliefs about the risk of human extinction, they are morally *required* to lie if lying helped them achieve their goals. Important to keep this in mind.

What I appreciate about Richard is that he can’t help but remind us from time to time that he is utterly incapable of understanding how normal humans think and feel and that all of his suggestions for how to organize society can therefore be safely ignored.

Two people, widely despised, with reputations for parasitic, fickle, self-serving behavior gang up to dance on the grave of the most beloved and successful political operator of his generation. Contemptible, resentful, wormlike in every way.

"Empathy" is often used to explain bleeding-heart liberalism, but this is exactly backwards. It is precisely the liberal's lack of empathy, his failure to imagine the mindset of the malicious anti-social criminal, that drives his misguided politics. Important to realize this.

One of my favorite stories of the Woke Era is the sordid tale of Yi-Fen Chou, an obscure poet whose poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve,” was selected for the prestigious Best American Poetry collection in 2015. What the editors of Best American didn’t know was that the same poem had been rejected over 40 times by journals large and small and that Yi-Fen Chou was not a Chinese woman with a complicated immigration story, but a non-descript white guy from Fort Wayne Indiana named Michael Derek Hudson who after years of summary rejection by the literary establishment decided to submit his poems under a different name and was immediately vaulted to the heights of success in his field.