CinnasVersesMay 10

Jung in the collectible-card-game store

https://awful.systems/post/8259991

Jung in the collectible-card-game store - awful.systems

Duncan Sabien likes at least two games: punch bug [https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-punch-bug] (as long as he is the one doing the punching) and Magic: the Gathering. He has a whole theory of personality types [https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/the-mtg-color-wheel?open=false#%C2%A7ub] based on colours of magic in M:tG (red, green, white, blue, and black) and got his partner the therapist [https://www.grettaduleba.com/about] into it. The four humours are old and unscientific see: > Personalities, organizations, goals, and means can all be thought of in terms of the Magic colors they typify, allowing you to draw interesting connections, make surprisingly useful predictions, identify deficits and growth areas, and increase empathy. I claim that the Magic system, which was designed to be resonant and trope-y and archetypal, does a lot of the same good work that naming things does, and is a richer intuition pump than other popular wrong-but-usefuls like Enneagram or MBTI or chakras or the integral theory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory#Spiral_Dynamics_and_collaboration_with_Don_Beck] colors. Backlinks show a number of rationalists and one TTRPG designer [https://www.monstrousmatters.com/2025/05/next-up-for-my-fantasy-heartbreaker-mage.html] being excited about it. Sneerers are having fun riffing on this theory, so lets create a thread for that. https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/the-mtg-color-wheel?open=false#§ub [https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/the-mtg-color-wheel?open=false#%C2%A7ub] I will begin with the fact that he posted it on Medium in twenty-frigging-eighteen and was offended that they eventually moved it to their “paying members only” section. Who in 2018 could have expected that a ‘free’ service would shut down or make the experience worse when it ran out of other people’s money? He also makes sure you know that the game designer, who also designed RoboRally, has a PhD. Try to explain Hume to them and they stone you, but invent a CCG which lets a corporation take all your lunch and newspaper-route money and they respect credentials.

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Jesus Christ these fucking people. Greta, EY’s girlfriend, erotica co-author, Discord moderator, one-time MIRI communications director (now having stepped back to just be his “executive assistant”), is fucking Duncan Sabien? Who I’m pretty sure is still married to EY’s ex-spouse?
May 30 at 4:45pmWeb
Show threadblakestaceyMay 30
Is she his erotica co-author? Last I heard, the best guess for his collaborator on Project Lawful was Kelsey Piper.
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Kelsey Piper isn’t a guess, she is absolutely and unequivocally the co-author of Project Lawful. She’s been using the screenname for years, with documentable links to her legal name, she participated in the fan Discord using personally-identifying info, the fan base talked about it as an open secret. It’s particularly wild given that she reported on EY at Vox multiple times while they were writing it.

Gretta writes other erotic glowfics with EY. He also has written some with Miranda Dixon-Laudenberg (sp?), another LWer (who got a job at Vox for a time, likely through Piper).

Show threadblakestaceyMay 30
The last time it came up, we had pretty good indications that lintamande was Piper and no reasons to think otherwise, but we didn’t have a newspaper saying so like we did for Cremieux being Jordan Lasker.
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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. > The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Yes, Duncan Sabien had a child with Yudkowsky’s ex-spouse and they are in a long-term relationship. I won’t link because the ex-spouse seems harmless and unwell.
Show threadArchiteuthisJun 1
Unwell in terms of opinions held or physically?
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DMed a link to the ex-spouse’s webpage. They (not sure of the ex-spouse’s preferred pronouns) seem happy with their partner and their new gender identity but not well in general.