Ryan Broderick

Like, they were, like, kind of quirk-chunkasy, like, burlesque-adjacent people, took too many drugs, and then became, like, hardcore, like, data freaks.

Like, this is a thing.

We have a copy of all the Twitter polls here.

There's some gems here, I bet.

Here's some from 2016, which gives us a good understanding of the baseline before things get really out of control.

Okay, so here's a few.

Would you rather bone your GF in your mom's body or your mom in your GF's body?

If you're a lady, it's BF and dad.

Okay.

Should public masturbation be considered a crime?

No.

The mafia kidnapped you and forced you to drink one cup of the following.

Which would you prefer, blood or semen?

At the time, I remember seeing some of these and just thinking, like, these are growth hacks.

Like, she's doing a growth hack.

I didn't really sort of see the larger project, I guess.

I find it almost more insidious, though, than the right, I think, in a lot of ways, because they refuse to say what they mean and what they're doing to such a degree.

So when she starts doing the polling, according to her own account, she has now started reading rationalist blogs.

So she's reading these sort of AI adjacent blogs, which 10 years ago were like playing in a lot of hypotheticals.

And I think we're giving...