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i am unable to see clearly, trapped by a fractal illusion. my mind is festering with rot, and the only tool i have to fix it is my mind
which is festering with rot
(i speak of myself but this probably applies to you too)
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so i haven't read dune but my understanding is that the bene gesserit is basically the milf illuminati
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i'm not usually a fan of the "this trivial thing is actually everything wrong with society" thing but this specific thing kinda is a microcosm of what i think is a serious problem for our culture
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can't find the original source, but one of my favorite conspiracy theories is that all the antidepressants we have are terrible because any drug that actually reliably made you feel happy would be taken recreationally, which we can't have
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my god. i get it now
literally an official photograph of dozens of world leaders at a diplomatic summit and most of them don't have clothes that fit properly
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'glitchiness' is often depicted/simulated with effects that do not reflect what an actual graphical glitch would look like, they merely communicates the idea of a glitch
more video games, movies, etc. should make you think your graphics driver is actually shutting myself
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america can't build, east asia can't breed, europe can't do business, and most of the rest of the world can't get rich
the world is changing too fast for anyone to figure out what a functional society looks like, under the conditions of modern technology
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my timeline is filled with so much pro-ukraine stuff it’s kinda making me uneasy
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apparently people who actually *have* read dune think my description is very accurate
that's cool
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why isn't this achievable, actually? is it the latency? are video game servers dependent on single-threaded performance?
The year is 2024. We are discussing AGI. And we *still* don't have a single 5000+ player FPS battle-sim game where you can recreate WW2 battles.
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“He was unquestionably intelligent, but it was the sort of intelligence which is primarily associated with getting very high marks on exams and then developing a sort of sorrowful despair that nothing else is ever quite so easy or straightforward.”
oof
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@genomerambler
have you seen the posts where people sarcastically criticize maps of earth for unrealistic worldbuilding
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one thing that's always seemed strange to me is most religious people's seeming incuriosity about theology
if i believed that god(s) existed 75% chance i'd be a theologian
seems like it would be more important than nearly anything else
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after my (relatively) modest experience trying various drugs and getting an idea for just how intensely they can change my state of mind, i'm pretty convinced that there exists some chemical that actually does work to simply make you happier
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i find it pretty plausible that the weird attitudes and beliefs western culture has about pleasure and happiness have done the second greatest ever injury to the achievement of human happiness
like 10%. that's my probability. 20% it's in the top 10
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this is like, one of the least practically significant things, in terms of geopolitics and governance, but holy shit is it a symbol and an omen
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beginning to suspect that people are desperately starved for superstition / ritual / meaningful places and objects if this kinda stuff is how they react to a weirdly-shaped hole in the pavement
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in another timeline, nuclear power was wholly embraced, electricity became too cheap to meter, and whatever couldn't be electrified was powered with internal combustion engines running on electrolyzed hydrogen
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honestly i cannot comprehend why georgism isn’t more popular
like, guys! it’s practically the perfect synthesis of leftist marxist/socialist ideas and rightist pro-market ideas!
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“a human who is never getting—hugs, never getting a massage, never falling asleep snuggling someone, never getting laid […] they're getting constant sensory input that they're alone in the world and no one's on their side and they're safe around no one and can trust no one”
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aella's escapades are a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard her with respect, or disgust?
I like how many people on the TL reveal themselves to be prudish busybodies every time Aella does something
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hypothesis: neurotypicals aren’t actually inherently better than autists at understanding people—they aren’t any more skillful—it’s just that since they think the way most people think, when they typical-mind and extrapolate to figure out what other people are thinking, it works
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also more video games should have obfuscated code to dynamically download new levels if some rare condition is met
just to fuck with people who think there aren't any more surprises because they've datamined the whole thing
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one of the chief issues with schooling, and western childhoods more generally, is that it induces a sort of learned helplessness, which is almost inevitable when you spend such a great fraction of your time under such strict control by others
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and if not for the FDA, DEA, etc. (both the approvals process and the consequent chilling effect) we might have that drug available now
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‘the meaning crisis’ aka people aren’t being continuously told what to do anymore and aren’t handling it well
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pro tip: people often don't like being told that they're wrong. it's best to be a little indirect. whenever someone says something you disagree with, just chuckle a little and say "you stupid motherfucker". DO NOT tell them what you think they're wrong about or why
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i’m starting to think school isn’t merely child prison as well as a massive waste of time and money, but also that it is actively corrupting to every child and youth that goes through it, and therefore to society as a whole
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if you’ve ever read ancient philosophy texts, like the bible or plato’s dialogues, one thing you will notice (or should notice) is that the way they present ideas is really weird, from a modern perspective
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well damn did not expect that one to blow up
this isn't even one of my good poasts
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i'm amused sometimes that (a) medical schools are apparently quite selective (b) doctors are notoriously overworked and (c) most people don't seem to find this situation weird or, you know, a massive red flag
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the transition from a symbol that's supposed to represent the full *spectrum* of diversity, including everyone, to a symbol with specific features representing specific groups (implicitly, including a specific subset of people) seems... symbolic... of something
we could have and should have stopped with this. it includes all of us. we don’t need the trans flag grafted on in the margins and don’t need the horribly clashing black and brown stripes.
rainbow is for everyone and the only version that’s actually aesthetic
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tasteless luxury is a signal of social mobility
if all your society's rich people have been wealthy long enough to develop taste, you're ngmi
the whole "McMansion" psyop has been a stupidly effective way of shaming Americans who enjoy living standards unavailable to the vast majority of people even in "developed" countries
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i am increasingly confident that
@matt_levine
's proposal—by default you are only allowed to buy index funds and treasuries unless you sign a document affirming you know making individual investments is stupid and receive a slap across the face from an SEC agent—is the way to go
This is the paradigmatic example of why we have securities laws:
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i would love to talk to someone who works in pharma R&D about what chilling effects and pressures they're under, and how the business works in general
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i’m not entirely sure what ‘objectification’ is or why people think it’s bad
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my life is ruled, to an absurd degree, by the stress and aversion i feel toward tasks which are actually not that bad
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previously i've been skeptical of claims that the fertility rate has dropped because having children is too expensive, on the grounds that people in the past were a lot poorer and had kids
but what i forgot is that for peasants, children are an economic *asset*—they can work
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i’m kinda surprised/disappointed driverless car racing isn’t a thing yet
without humans, you don’t need to worry about safety, so you can do away with a lot of the rules and go nuts
and that’s something i’d really like to see
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@isaac_lewis
yea, but when you're at a diplomatic summit, you're representing the entire country
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i've never read ayn rand, but am suspicious of how popular it is to performatively denigrate her work
makes me think she might have been onto something
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a lot of so-called 'paradoxes' are just like 'did you know that common models of things break down around the edges??? crazy!'
e.g. ship of theseus. like, yep, common notions of identity sure do fail in that scenario. guess we could try to build a new one
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me, stealing fire from the gods: haha fuck yeah! yes!
me, getting my liver eaten by an eagle: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck
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i gotta say the flavors of leftism which do not respect property rights except for land, which they take extremely seriously, sure are interesting
in terms of like, the philosophical implications. the sociological/memetic explanation doesn't seem all that mysterious
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why is swatting still a problem? shouldn't it be possible to (1) keep track of the phone numbers 911 calls are originating from (2) notice when a 911 call turns out to be fraudulent/abusive (3) find out who owns the number the call came from (4) prosecute that person
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there's this thing yudkowsky does in his fiction, and i haven't seen it many other places—a character makes subtle errors of reasoning, subtle enough that i often don't notice them, until later on when they realize when they got wrong and think of all the signs they...
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holy shit i had no idea that was how they made those sounds
You don’t quite understand Daft Punk’s genius until you see the magic of their sampling
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i suspect that people who have deconverted from intense religious belief have something the rest of us don't, in terms of mindset and epistemics
it seems to crack them open in a unique way
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this has got to be one of the threads of all time
Meeting now halted. Anger that meeting is being live tweeted. 5/
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i think for me an important thing to have in a friendship is confidence that i can say completely insane shit and continue to receive affection
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what's up with all these people starting cults just to have sex with a lot of people
that's like, one of the least interesting things you could do if you were a cult leader
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whenever i think about it, i’m confused than many people aren’t as enthusiastic about drugs as i am
fellas, with the extremely simple application of a chemical, you can very easily MODIFY YOUR ENTIRE CONSCIOUSNESS
i mean, wtf, why wouldn’t you want to try that?
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tbh i love-hate the way scott alexander casually wrote one of the most compelling and innovative works of fiction the world has ever seen and then never wrote longform fiction again
a literary genius that decided he just had better things to do, i guess
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for more on why i'm so bullish on counterfactually regulating nuclear power less than what actually happened, read this essay, which radicalized me
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just realized, it's kinda crazy MDMA works on octopuses because they're *invertebrates* who evolved separately from all other intelligent animals (excepting their fellow cephalopods)
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the three ways i work on things are:
- work on it for 30 minutes then get distracted
- don’t work on it at all
- 6 hour amphetamine-fueled flow state
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>be me
>discover a cool sound
>haven't heard anything quite like it before
>wonder where this song came from
>look it up
>it's a fucking islamic state propaganda song
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people really sacrificed goats and shit to the gods for thousands of years and you think *your* culture is immune to doing stupid useless shit on a massive scale?
yes, i know everyone agrees it’s important, sensible people, experts, all say it’s important, that proves nothing
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guess who's back
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I want to get my first programming job in the next 4-8 months. I have no college degree or significant work experience. If you're in the industry, I'd appreciate any advice about how I can increase my chances of success. Details in the thread.
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i’ve been kinda conflicted for several years because half of me is like ‘i want to get married and live a quiet comfortable life maybe on a farm or something, learn how to play shadowrun’ and the other half is like ‘shill you’re top 1% intelligence you can change da world’
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god i love rationalists
it doesn't get much more rational than this
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surprisingly i don't think i've ever talked about this on twitter, so: storytime
when i was a kid i was very passionate. i cared about things intensely. things that bothered me bothered me a lot, and i felt driven to change them
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saying that someone's actions were acceptable by the standards of their time is basically like
"woah woah woah, they may have done all those things, but at least they didn't flout social norms"
which honestly is what we actually care about a lot of the time
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she's a very deeply weird person, and upapologetic and open about her weirdness. this makes a lot of people mad
but i've never known her to be anything but an sincere and curious person. she's not doing a bit, she's not seeking attention, she's just like that and it's fine
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when are e-girls gonna start selling futures contracts on their onlyfans earnings
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i’m pretty sure that having a special interest is a superpower
the ability to get really deep into something and never get bored of it allows you to grow an incredible amount of knowledge about it, which gives you an rare asset you can capitalize on
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really says something that jbp was once a popular and (among some circles) respected self-help advice guy, and now over the past several years he's completely lost it, actually gone insane
not sure what it says, but...
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why is it that i always have *just* enough executive function to meet my basic responsibilities and do anything that needs to be done immediately, but never enough to lay the groundwork for longer-term* success
(where 'long' here means like, 2 weeks)
i've been stuck for months
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i’m mad that people get all precious about child labor but see nothing wrong with schooling
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there seems to be a shortage of friendship tops, much like there is a shortage of normal [sexual] tops
indeed, it seems that most people, in most contexts where the metaphor is applicable, are not inclined/disposed to top
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i feel like the weirdness of athena being a woman is underrated
like, what does that say about how the ancient greeks conceived of gender and womanhood?
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it would be really funny if russia and china both collapsed in the next few years, leaving america on top of the new world order by virtue of being the least incompetent
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what scott alexander said about ayn rand, may also be the case for IQ scores
I don’t know what my IQ is (how would I? I’ve never taken a test), but the hate directed at people who “cite their IQ” is kinda insane. Is people citing IQ actually a common annoyance? I’ve hardly ever heard anyone mention their IQ. Vs there’s much more bragging via credentials
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once in elementary school we had an assembly, and the principal asked what was the purpose of the school’s rules. i raised my hand, and she let me speak into the microphone, and i said ‘rules are meant to be broken’
it still makes me happy to remember the annoyance on her face
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and i know for a fact there are a lot of actors trying to influence public opinion in various directions, but i don’t know exactly who is doing so or what their agendas are, so anytime i see something that feels… unusually memetically potent, i get suspicious
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i always thought ‘you might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like’ was a joke, but it turns out that sometimes peak performance is in fact ugly as fuck
Seeing that this is the best way we know to fit this many equal squares inside a square makes me feel a bit better about struggling to fit the plates in the dishwasher!
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of course,
damn... i'd probably be pretty concerned about the trajectory of politics and culture if i wasn't pretty confident that we're all going to d*e in the next 15 years
but i am, so instead it's just funny
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hoooly shit disco elysium is just as good as everyone said it was
i'm like 30 minutes in and it's very obvious
this is an extremely original, intelligent, and focused work. very rare to see something like this
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i have gone to therapy, actually, and it was pretty fuckin useless
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