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not much, what's up with you
wait what
yeah it's, uh, pretty common IME
i think you'd be surprised at how often rationalists (i presume you mean of the Yudkowsky school) deradicalize themselves. we don't show up in the discourse the same way so we're hard to spot.
get their asses Liz
I didn’t think “he was a bad person but in a decent and stable society we don’t murder people for being bad” was a hard line to walk but it does seem there’s plenty of people falling off either side of it
isn't... the drooping on the left side after a stroke?
Maaaan, I suddenly remember all of the crank emails that somehow made it through the filters to me when I was in grad school detailing an extremely convoluted TOE
It's like an Elizabeth Warren rally that never ends
Just ADHD.
All the other Cold War relics have already gotten to feast on Russian armor, airpower and radar sets But isn't there someone you forgot to invite to the cookout? Someone who looks a little lonely these days?
all the early and mid career libs are just supercharging the will-to-power meter rn ; the last few polisci faculty who didn't already performatively flee to Canada are calling it a "state capacity hyperbolic time chamber"
(Ed.: also a cishet-presenting white dude, like, there's no obvious reason this should be true)
I'm not particularly tall, unusual-looking, or socially awkward (at least not in an offputting way) and I still come out of every interaction with a new person feeling like an alien
Huh. I feel like this a lot and don't even know why
don't think you have to engage in hagiography in order to oppose horrific political violence
how much you want to bet this was written by chatgpt
I am curating my feed well, if the fact that there's no fedposting on it currently is anything to go by.
something i think about when people on here start talking about how we'll never be able to rebuild what trump destroyed. i fundamentally don't believe that--because history shows that you can build *a lot* quite quickly when you've got the will for it
I guarantee many people on extreme right are much happier about the prospect of having what they believe is an excuse to shoot liberals indiscriminately than they are sad about anyone getting shot. Do not give them even the slightest window. Political violence is bad and must be opposed
The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.
I hate to disagree with the quoted post, but ... Yeah nah sike. Political violence is really fucking bad.
there is a reason why i spend so much time fighting with people who think that the only way out of this is violence
All of the fedposting by idiots making the world actively worse, you say? Who could have predicted this
Was really hoping to avoid America's Years of Lead... but alas...
fuck yeah
how about can we maybe just not talk about Biden again until ALL of this is over? Like, those years were intense and bad things happened (along with good) but there's just a lot going on and maybe we could hold off is all just for our sanity
There's a popular tendency to view alt-health that isn't actively causing health problems as harmless and maybe even a little beneficial if they're just placebo rituals, but their promotion reinforces bad habits of mind that aren't necessarily going to be compartmentalized just to "woo."
imo the issues is that it’s a religious/pseudo-religious practice that refuses to explicitly acknowledge as such. Like if someone said “going to church really helped during my cancer”, you’re an asshole if you say “ACTUALLY THAT WAS THE CHEMOTHERAPY”, but woo shit *pretends to be* actual medicine
tfw you have given a thing several hours to percolate and decide you’re actually much fucking madder than you were initially
For a while one of the bottlenecks was storage! We've just made enormous leaps in battery technology over the last couple of decades.
I disagree on this point. There is a lot of stuff that's a bit magical even in vigorous empirical reality.
I think the issue is that like...once you are looking at things beyond vigorous empirical reality, lots of things can crawl in.
Thus Spake Cosmothustra, Chapter 9: The Eternal Concurrence
How long can fingerprints last? I'm assuming these documents weren't exactly kept in museum conditions (then again, who knows)
NSTY
the statement in quotes is like 70% of the point of the goddamn show I'm absolutely convinced
the fact that the fanbase hated it so much is evidence that it succeeded, because it's an episode that says "if you primarily identify with Rick, you're probably an asshole"
wait holy fuck I woke up at 4am and wrote this post and then did the same bit on a repost wtf is wrong with me
thank you for the scare quotes, sincerely they're not. fucking. ours
through the politics of future past the tech douchebag longs to see one cries out between two worlds "wah society is changing and I don't like it"
Nobody who quotes Anton Chigurh is on the side of the angels.
everybody is going to have some dark nights of the soul coming up but you don’t advertise it, that stuff spreads
yeah I mean not that I can particularly throw stones here but it isn’t great that the Shout Into The Void option actually outputs in other people’s braindrip
Starting to think Joe Biden wasn't so bad or sleepy tbh
Due process is good
there... were cutscenes... in the first doom game?
sometimes a man with a gun finds a chainsaw and that's enough
My gripe is that Griffiths spends a bunch of time on "oooh it is SPOOKY" and doesn't give you the "okay here's how to DO it" that his E&M book (which is fantastic) does. Never read McIntyre, in grad school we used Sakurai and a bunch of us supplemented w/Zettili, which is VERY nice for formalism
when gandalf isn’t with bilbo and the gang i imagine he’s in back to back zoom meetings
balrog uses teams. i know this in my heart
Gimli late to every meeting sending a text saying he can’t get in
Zyns unironically seem to be a real good harm reduction for smokers. They got me off the vapes!
Slightly diminish a book: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, by Griffiths (the joke is that that is the original title and you should use Zettili instead)
science in general should always be funded this fat, this is just like, the one time when mysteriously the economy decided going all-in on the good science was worthwhile that said i think we're overweight compute and low staff and most of it is being wasted
You underestimate the degree to which I think people are going to increasingly view Clippy-addicts as homo non sapiens.
It's always and everywhere literally roleplaying, no?
Every so often I think it becomes a necessity to remind the free and shamefully incurious peoples of the world that my enemy is, by the enemy's own admission, your enemy too. They openly degrade liberty, scoff at equality, and spit on brotherhood.
Calling MLK’s white moderates liberals is a devious linguistic trick that puts modern leftists who fall for it in league with fash
![[male Russian wojak] noooo you can’t just vaporize my entire armored division, we had such a manly recruitment ad [female US wojak] omg integrated fire support?? go off queen sksksksk, JDAMs are such a gemini thing](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jyyxxyvn3rykvgkeozdillug/bafkreifn27w7n3ubw4atv3tuowbcn2ifasxow7cjuifztlh54i2k4pndgu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Pretty sure Lazenbooby7384 is legit
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗔𝗥𝗗: What the fuck did you just fucking say / lie about me / us, you little bitch / pussy? I'll have you know I graduated / ascended top / last of my class / family in the Navy Seals / publicist, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda / Enron
The reason the eugenics couple get so much press is because there’s an elite constituency that desperately wants an aristocratic conservatism to exist, rather than the tacky/gaudy jet-ski owner petit-bourgeois/lumpenprole movement that actually does.
Barbers these days don't know undercut They only know fade, edge up, eat hot chip, and "how does it look"
An inadvertent argument in favor of human life extension.
Me, describing US healthcare to my dude in Karachi: "Yeah it's fucked up." Him: "yeah bro that sucks" Me: "so you want this US passport, then?" Him: "Fuck yeah. Ten grand, per our agreement? Let's do this."
That's incorrect. George Washington was six foot twenty and killed for fun.
In grad school we used to say things to the effect of "a lazy-- I mean good physicist"
"hearing someone talking in a language you don't speak" is an authentically American experience and I will not accept pissbaby whining about it from people who tell me they're "real Americans"
Now I need a "Cuomo has fallen and so have the price of goods" poster
there will not be a liberal unitary executive. it is possible, perhaps, to have a liberal imperial congress and we should strive for it.
“Everyone who disagrees with me” is not an undifferentiated category. If you disagree with me about tax policy or the second amendment, whatever. But if you think humanity is divided into genetically superior and inferior racial castes, you are literally espousing the ideology of Hitlerites.
by the end of this term I will probably have been polarized into supporting making it illegal for people to express opinions about any subject they do not have a degree in
I am not going to lie. This whole thing has created some really fucking strange bedfellows politically.
hell yeah also \Sigma = MC^2, hmmmm
Increase a band: HEALTHY
what rude post slouches toward bethlehem
I keep asking why the hell I am supposed to care about Sydney Sweeney and I still have not received a satisfactory answer.
it's like ten seconds long, he dies immediately
Gary vs Predator
wow the new alien show is really trying to poison the word "transhuman" huh
had a conversation with another yimby who was, like, *annoyed* that zohran was yimbypilled, and i just had to tell him "this is what winning smells like." progressives and leftists are *far* more gettable. just leave your goddamn internet beefs behind and embrace victory!
my current theory is that any movement that does not very explicitly, ON THE TIN, refuse an authoritarian interpretation of their project is authoritarian by default. nazi bar, gresham's law, whatever. authoritarianism is the invasive species of ideologies
"i've used a little bit of Fortran" "ur hired lol"
what the hell is A
AI is not a monolith and comes in different types, and some applications are good (eg bird image recognition, targeted scientific applications) but we really need to stop assuming that the people helming it are thinking intelligently about the repercussions or playing any sort of 4D chess
quantum is NOT one of these it is ABUNDANTLY clear when someone is just randomly saying "quantum" up to Yudkowsky-level "I have at least read a textbook"
Reposting because this but unironically
data science still needs a solid kick to the crotchal zone on principle though
I feel like "how can I alter their ideas without them realizing it" would be a fun challenge tbh
I give the Devil the benefit of law for my own’s safety sake.
basically OpenAI made the term "AI" cool, supplanting "ML", which was previously how you distinguished your approach as being statistically driven and not useless (which is what AI was not), and now anything that has any sort of complex math in it is "AI" when it was "ML" or "data science" before
Pretty sure there are multiple Schlock Mercenary comics about this
Yes - obviously 300 characters is too short a length to discuss how different Judaism and Christianity are! The "law" aspect is very much de-emphasized to non-existent in Christianity - so much so that I believe Christianity has to invent the concept of "a religion" to describe itself
is there a starter pack for people interested in updog and/or ligma
that's right fullbeards, we will be content with second class status no longer. it's over for you dwarven motherfuckers.
Beyond that, I thought nativists' aim was to draw a sharp line around the concept of citizenship, with new citizens expected to assimilate fully and vigorously to American life once their status changed. What could better symbolize assimilation than signing up for voter registration? /4
What an incisive insight! You're absolutely right. Would you like to sell me your soul?
