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apparently i have LOST ANOTHER 3 KILOGRAMS WHAT IS GOING ON I EXERCISE LIKE 3 HOURS A WEEK AND EAT LIKE A BEAR AND A TIGER
apparently i have LOST ANOTHER 3 KILOGRAMS WHAT IS GOING ON I EXERCISE LIKE 3 HOURS A WEEK AND EAT LIKE A BEAR AND A TIGER
Curtis Yarvin orchestrated gamergate to see if he could
Curtis Yarvin orchestrated gamergate to see if he could
Niplav Yushtun™: Ethics in Games Journalism and Beyond
frankensteinian linguistics
for obvious reasons, we coated it in a thick layer of orange cheese
planetejaro, planetarejo, planetarejaĉo, planetaĉejaro
Stop narrativizing yourself! Stop narrativizing yourself!
It's not enough to be drunk for escalation, I also need to have made approaches beforehand.
It's not enough to be drunk for escalation, I also need to have made approaches beforehand.
List of fugitive schelling.pt Members
List of fugitive schelling.pt Members
Moloch who resides in an infinite-dimensional space
Moloch who resides in an infinite-dimensional space
Moloch whose pilots are spooky
Moloch whose pilots are spooky
I would never donate money to a fund that would accept me as a grantee.
I would never donate money to a fund that would accept me as a grantee.
whether cryptocurrencies are more or less likely to be stable during a multipolar ai takeoff depends on whether our current cryptography is “endgame” or not, i.e. whether it's in practice basically uncrackable by any advanced actor
whether cryptocurrencies are more or less likely to be stable during a multipolar ai takeoff depends on whether our current cryptography is “endgame” or not, i.e. whether it's in practice basically uncrackable by any advanced actor
there was a connection between one of the guys who wrote the first pickup advice in the 70s, and general semantics. i could investigate
there was a connection between one of the guys who wrote the first pickup advice in the 70s, and general semantics. i could investigate
to do: go nuclear on a date and explain that im just performing an act, that i studied this in detail and trained myself to do it, that this is a deliberate effort to escape my patheticness
to do: go nuclear on a date and explain that im just performing an act, that i studied this in detail and trained myself to do it, that this is a deliberate effort to escape my patheticness
“yeah? vipassanize this then, _nerd_” *suckerpunch*
“yeah? vipassanize this then, _nerd_” *suckerpunch*
seeing typos in LaTeX documents always throws me off, my brain still wants to classify the whole format as respectable
seeing typos in LaTeX documents always throws me off, my brain still wants to classify the whole format as respectable
increase, decrease, recrease, transcrease, supercrease, subcrease, adcrease
increase, decrease, recrease, transcrease, supercrease, subcrease, adcrease
in conways game of life, does chaos always spread strictly faster than order?
in conways game of life, does chaos always spread strictly faster than order?
hot philosophy student just answered a ping i sent a week ago, thank you uncle tom :folded_hands:
hot philosophy student just answered a ping i sent a week ago, thank you uncle tom :folded_hands:
funder (thunder but with fun, f*** under, fun; der, person who gives funding)***
funder (thunder but with fun, f*** under, fun; der, person who gives funding)***
Well, modulo each item of clothing being produced in 1024 different colors
The first two things that people usually say when they step out of the plane at the central niplavistan airport are “Why is everyone dressed the same way” and “Why does everything look like it's built to withstand a nuclear—no, wait, let me rephrase, why *is* everything here built to as if to withstand a nuclear strike?”
picoeconomics is a great word & concept, and I'm sad it hasn't been developed further
picoeconomics is a great word & concept, and I'm sad it hasn't been developed further
procrastinating by writing and exercising…i have reached new lows
procrastinating by writing and exercising…i have reached new lows
parts of life imitate art with very high fidelity
Ein Mann muss lernen, Frauen anzusprechen. Eine Frau muss lernen, Männer abzuweisen. »Diese beiden sind eins und gleich. Hervorgehoben sind ihre Namen verschieden, ihre Vereinigung aber nennen wir mystisch — mystisch und abermals mystisch, die Pforte zu jedwedem Geheimnis.«
Ein Mann muss lernen, Frauen anzusprechen. Eine Frau muss lernen, Männer abzuweisen. »Diese beiden sind eins und gleich. Hervorgehoben sind ihre Namen verschieden, ihre Vereinigung aber nennen wir mystisch — mystisch und abermals mystisch, die Pforte zu jedwedem Geheimnis.
here im assuming that the distribution over people isn't just mean niplav, but also has less variance (but not so little that society immediately collapses, because just copies of niplav can't run a society)
this is less of a problem than one might suspect, because niplavs are generally easily made enthusiastic about most topics, niplavs are agreeable and willing to try the stuff other niplavs think are cool, motivated to stay in their group because they have grooved in a very strong rhythm, more capable of understanding why something is cool (because of short inferential distances), and the groups are carefully chosen to maximize potential common interests.
one disadvantage is the huge variety of interests a niplav can have, it is often not possible to find a pair/group where every niplav is at the same time interested in bebop, type theory, bouldering and forecasting. usually, this is solved by having one primary group that is broadly intellectual, and then side-projects, with elaborate rules about how to deal with these side-groups becoming more important than the main group.
these groups also work very well as ways of quickly organizing commitments, e.g. for meditation, exercise, artistic projects etc.
there has been a large amount of experimentation to find psychological characteristics of niplavs that are especially conducive for forming these kinds of groups or pairs, and a large portion of the teenage years of a niplav is spent in various different groups to find an especially well-functioning one.
niplav culture mostly acknowledges this, but takes the productivity hit by using these groups in settings where they're not necessarily optimal (although it is surprising how synchronized and fast a group of niplavs can be if they have been working together for a decade)
the similarity to pair programming is not coincidental, but as in pair programming, this works best if the problem is actually quite difficult and critical, since otherwise it's not economically viable
an optimal session would be two niplavs at a whiteboard, either both thinking, or one explaining an idea to the other, and a third sitting at a laptop in the background and writing down the ideas as they're developed (and only sometimes asking questions for clarification).
one thing niplav culture started doing very early was to group niplavs into group of 2-4 people who would form a worker/research unit (friendship encouraged, but romance discouraged). because of high agreeability, these units can be *very* stable, and are especially useful in trying to understand & solve difficult problems, often by one niplav being the babble and the other being the prune. this also has the advantage that for a niplav, intellectual work is around three times as fun in interaction with other niplavs, mainly because there is some very quick feedback mechanism that bores into weak points of understanding or sloppy parts of models/proofs, where a single niplav would just shrug and give up early.
Despite close connection in spirit [Chapin 2022, Cammarata 2021, Sotala 2019], few scholars have investigated the relation between microblogging and ancient buddhist scripture, especially the Tipitaka. However, multiple connections arise, for example the four brahmaviharas (the divine abodes) [Sujiva 2003, Buddhaghosa 500] and certain quaternionic spaces (or “tetraspaces”) [Minkowski 1908, Hamilton 1843, holomanga 2019], pointing at interesting connections between fourfold symmetries and benevolence [Gomez-Émilsson 2018]. In this essay I will
the fourfold spatious sutra
the fourfold spatious sutra
someone on twitter said once that if “defenestrate” means to throw someone out of a window, to “demonstrate” means to throw someone out of a monster. i think about that a lot
someone on twitter said once that if “defenestrate” means to throw someone out of a window, to “demonstrate” means to throw someone out of a monster. i think about that a lot
the utter shock when you discover that the two biggest mistakes humanity is making right now are in fact philosophical mistakes
the utter shock when you discover that the two biggest mistakes humanity is making right now are in fact philosophical mistakes
i like consequentialism, but i don't like any specific version of it nearly as much
i like consequentialism, but i don't like any specific version of it nearly as much
it's not about what utilitarians recommend, it's about what utilitarianism recommends, rob.
it's not about what utilitarians recommend, it's about what utilitarianism recommends, rob.
also, a girl attempted to hug me ~20 seconds after rejecting me by telling me she had a boyfriend. i was woefully unprepared for *that*! (yada yada she wanted you to push further yada yada, yes i know, but this is something im still against)~
also, a girl attempted to hug me ~20 seconds after rejecting me by telling me she had a boyfriend. i was woefully unprepared for *that*! (yada yada she wanted you to push further yada yada, yes i know, but this is something im still against)~
*niplav pointing at a Schäferhund* “I can learn a lot from this man”*
*niplav pointing at a Schäferhund* “I can learn a lot from this man”*
i can also learn a lot from bursts of wind
i can also learn a lot from bursts of wind
today, after getting blown off with a clean & clear “fuck you”, two girls told me in succession that I made their day and that I should continue what I was doing. *Attenborough voice* “daygame is truly a land of the contrasts”
today, after getting blown off with a clean & clear “fuck you”, two girls told me in succession that I made their day and that I should continue what I was doing. *Attenborough voice* “daygame is truly a land of contrasts”
today, after getting blown off with a clean & clear “fuck you”, two girls told me in succession that I made their day and that I should continue what I was doing. *Attenborough voice* “daygame is truly a land of contrasts”
i wonder whether animals experience dukkha
i wonder whether animals experience dukkha
…and now i'm wondering whether virginity auctions on dath ilan are second-price auctions
…and now i'm wondering whether virginity auctions on dath ilan are second-price auctions
i can learn a lot from dogs. and from hot girls
i can learn a lot from dogs. and from hot girls