Vessel Of Spirit
@VesselOfSpirit
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the bat. when writing a sentence, it's important to state your key metaphor right off it.
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there's alpha in ideas at the receiving end of ad hominems because they're selected for there being fewer non-ad-hominem arguments against them.
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i think social desirability bias is very common and mostly does not take the spicy forms that you naturally think of when seeing that phrase.
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by "unpopular" i mean less the kind of spicy taboo opinions that let you brand yourself as a brave spicy truth teller, and more the kind of opinions that make you sound bland, weak, lifeless, a bad associate, a party pooper, not clever, etc.
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there's a core postrationalist fallacy that goes like: believing unpopular things will make you unpopular which will make you unhappy, and if you think about it, isn't what makes you flourish the only truth in a way? therefore no unpopular thing is true.
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there's a tiny minority of people on here that i have mentally filed away as "not too glib" but then a lot of the time when i read this website i see people in that category saying things that are too glib.
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it makes sense for death star to be the next q star. because what is death if not the ultimate queue.
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future people will be born already knowing all bad news (including highly advanced mathematical bad news like the 17 square packing) but will learn all the good news gradually so they can savor it
Do you think education will always be a thing? Or will future people just be born already possessing up-to-date knowledge?.
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because fahrenheit is better adapted to the human range, it lets you use compact elegant numbers that roll off the tongue like "twenty-seven" or "forty-eight" where a celsius person would have to say difficult and sometimes conceptually fraught numbers like "minus two" or "nine".
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guy who thinks fahrenheit is better than celsius because it uses the 0-100 range to go from very cold to very hot, but who also thinks 40 degrees is bitter cold.
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the people who measure unchanging things with different errors at different times and conclude that the world is full of change.
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what if there were a type of dog that always brought you a new ball right when you were going to throw your current ball, called a golden pretriever.
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so it begins. the butlerian jeeves-had
Stephen Fry: "The most important book I've read for years: I want to bring it to every political and corporate leader in the world and stand over them until they've read it. Yudkowsky and Soares, who have studied AI and its possible trajectories for decades, sound a loud trumpet.
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oh JEANS. never mind. i'd like to retract that and apologize. i thought they said she has good Djinns.
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if you ask me, that sydney sweeney ad is reprehensible on any interpretation, whether it's meant to encourage superstition, play on orientalist tropes, or condone pacts with powerful paranormal entities that claim to be benevolent but bring only ruin to those who seek their aid.
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what if we all became wizzlers. like rizzlers but for wisdom instead of charisma.
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as an act of protest against Meta's reckless superintelligence plans, from now on i will only post tweets on the object level.
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