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This is a guest post. Tao has been quite consistent in his stance.

Why object to my comment and not Ikey's?

Usefulness and efficiency should serve all humans, rather than privileging the feelings of elites accustomed to receiving accolades for their intellectual capabilities.

The author made a stupid argument and the choice of comparison is part of that stupidity.

vibewar

If you read the article, you'd know the author is in favor of tech innovation.

I think the author is understandably frustrated about seeing a lot of fanfare for sexy prototypes years or decades from the market, when he struggles every day with flaws in his actual mobility devices that could be improved in months if the manufacturers cared enough to do it.

The author is misguided in blaming the crab chair engineers for this state of affairs. The crab chair engineers aren't responsible for the myriad socioeconomic inefficiencies that make wheelchairs suck today. If they didn't work on crab chairs, they'd work on some other artsy project, and we still wouldn't have better wheelchairs. But everyone in this thread needs to chill out and stop being so personally offended that this writer is holding back human progress by not ass-kissing the crab chair.

You try to sit down on a chair and it walks away, leaving you to fall on your butt. Laugh track plays.

Pretty weird to blame "this demographic" for a single disabled guy writing a mildly critical article!

This is false, it's only B12 you need to supplement (and meat-eaters also get B12 through supplements, just indirectly).

Most people are not deficient in vitamins and minerals - the benefits of supplementing are highly exaggerated. Evidence is not good.

I had sex I didn't like, which means it must be objectively bad. Boom, rationalists owned.

AI safety advocates do not typically demand to be given personal political power, only for a set of preferred policies to be enacted, like anyone advocating for any political cause.

"Immunity" = "immune system activity." "Anti-tumor immunity" = "immune system activity against tumors."

Essentially none. Creatine supplementation is a good idea for most people, especially vegans/vegetarians.