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Power Lines Drawing #129 (Huntington Woods, MI) Prints are $40 USD at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Black and white image of a black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

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Power Lines Drawing #128 (Ferndale, MI) Prints are $40 USD at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Power Lines Drawing #106 (Hamtramck) Prints are $40 USD at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Power Lines Drawing #114 (Detroit, Buchanan St) Prints are $40 USD at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Prints of these Power Lines Drawings (along with a handful of others) are available at my store $40 USD each plus shipping marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/category/pow...

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There should be a term like milkshake duck for when a supposedly pragmatic and responsible AI-hype/doom man predictably turns out to have had their brain totally fried by the techno cult (image re-shred with alt text)

Screenshot of an exchange on X.com between Ed Zitron and Jacob Coxon.

Ed Zitron (@edzitron): what is your relationship to the rationalists and effective altruists?

Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess):

Yeah, this is a really important question.

I've been associating with rationalists for almost a decade. Their ideas were compelling and you can't deny their foresight. The founders of every superintelligence effort are all bound up in the rationality sphere. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman used to frequent the MIRI offices.

The way I relate to rationalists is it's like the bizarre hypertrophied physiques on specialized athletes. In my opinion they have weirdly specialized minds that make them uniquely able to be correct about topics removed from daily experience. These "specialized minds" also can make them off-putting to many people.

I dont know if I'd consider myself a rationalist. I am intuitively opposed to polyamory, veganism, and consequentialist intuitions. But I certainly trust them to be correct about factual questions.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #146 (Highland Park, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole with a broken streetlight and power lines

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Power Lines Drawing #92 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #153 (Detroit, Byron St) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #110 (Detroit, Elmhurst) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $250 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 12/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #74 (Detroit, North End) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 12/09/2026

My four most recent Power Lines Drawings: #156 (Hamtramck) #157 (Ann Arbor, MI) #158 (Detroit, North End) #159 (Ann Arbor, MI) marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 11/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #32 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 11/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #73 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $250 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/category/pow...

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Power Lines Drawing #159 (Ann Arbor, MI) marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...

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Power Lines Drawing #122 (Detroit, Delray) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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from last night’s sunset

Color photograph, a car’s side mirror reflects a brightly pink and orange sunset over a city street, and beyond the mirror, looking across a street where there are some boxy brick buildings and a 5G tower, there are more pink clouds in the sky

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Power Lines Drawing #59 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Power Lines Drawing #150 (Hazel Park, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $300 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Power Lines Drawing #86 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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More Objects from Films (Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 1 [2017]) Original drawing for sale at my store 10" x 8" black ink on paper $250 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/twin...

Black ink drawing of a desk telephone and intercom

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More Objects from Films (Twelve Monkeys [1995]) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/twel...

Black ink drawing of an old television with knobs for controls

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Power Lines Drawing #154 (Ann Arbor, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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