oh no
trans women in chess discourse is starting to be a thing
people are really noticably not prepared for a world where in a few years a large % of the top female chess players are trans
...
broke: kids started having mental health problems in the 2010s because thats when they started using technology (smartphones)
woke: kids started having mental health problems in the 2010s because thats when their parents learned how to use technology
Much of Gen Z has faced constant surveillance. Not like latchkey Gen X, not like millennials knowing comps more than our parents.
- reduced outdoor spaces for kids
- "track my child" apps for when they're out
- keylog programs
Everything filters through "what if my parents see?"
spiciest rationalist take you should probably be long on is cryonics tbh. like if you look at lesswrong survey data people who haven't signed up for it are like "10% it works" and people who have are like "10% it works and that seems totally worth a few hundred a year"
This is kind of a baffling norm
“The drug works so it’s unethical to continue the trial because it means people who receive placebo will die, however the FDA will continue to ban it for the next month or so”
At interim analysis, overwhelming efficacy necessitated stopping the trial for ethical considerations:
389 people who got Paxlovid: 3 hospitalizations, 0 deaths
385 people who got placebo: 27 hospitalizations, 7 deaths
@Carolynyjohnson
honestly one thing EAs can learn from the trans community is even in the face of bad press you can't be tearing yourselves apart yelling at people to stop wearing dog collars or using frog/frogs pronouns bc being weird is bad PR. just do good things and hope people come around.
FTX vague impressions:
- I'm not worried about the future of EA we'll miss the money but we've handled worse in terms of PR lol.
Main thing that worries me is rumors of warnings of bad behaviour given to some higher ups some years ago.
... ok this is pretty unforgivable
i've previously (admittedly uncharitably) made the comparison that this is like looking at incel fora to understand the lives of lonely men
🧵 Hilary Cass misrepresents this big scary graph in her final report. It’s not from a study of people who detransition, it’s from an ethnographic study of the online detrans community (a socio-political subculture).
@JohnNemoBell
I feel like you should be required to like ... use google before printing obviously false claims like "it's easier to get into a top UK uni as an international" in a major newspaper.
cold take on transphobia in rat/postrat spaces is we do extremely well in keeping this stuff out compared to your average IDW-curious space because of a bunch of shared values (transhumanism, libertarianism, sex-positivity, tolerance of weird ppl, etc.)
why are twitter people shitting on caroline/sbfs taste
look if you don't see the appeal of a stimulant-fueled partner in billion-dollar crypto fraud idk what to tell you
@ElytraMithra
i guess there are 3 layers here
1) my parents cared about me
2) my upbringing was fucked up/abusive
3) my upbringing was fucked up/abusive as a result of my parents being fuckups who were nonetheless people
Universities making money by acting as visa laundering services for overseas students
>>>
Universities making money by selectively admitting rich kids by legacy admissions/ judging on extracurriculars
FOREIGN STUDENTS SUBSIDIZE AMERICAN STUDENTS, THEY DO NOT REPLACE THEM
FOREIGN STUDENTS SUBSIDIZE AMERICAN STUDENTS, THEY DO NOT REPLACE THEM
FOREIGN STUDENTS SUBSIDIZE AMERICAN STUDENTS, THEY DO NOT REPLACE THEM
FOREIGN STUDENTS SUBSIDIZE AMERICAN STUDENTS, THEY DO NOT REPLAC
it’s really amusing how my views on the power of the rat community have changed over the past 5 years
i’ve gone from “oh no what if someone discovers i’m one of these crazy nerds” to “if the ny times wants to attack us, come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough”
A disproportionate share of terrorists are engineers.
I remember reading this in 2010 and updating from "being smart leads to better beliefs" to "there are traps only smart people can fall for."
I am often reminded of this fact.
looking through this and I'm starting to realise what a challenge it is to keep olympiads from being a contest of "how much of an undergraduate math degree have you done?"
do you understand that you have time to learn and build stuff ? do you understand that this 500 pages math book on algebraic number theory through olympiad problems was written by a 17yo highschool student ??
skill and mentality issue
@sullyj3
@goblinodds
like, escalating slowly/doing lots of things out of plausible deniability because you're scared of getting rejected/scared of freaking them out
when really they know full well you're attracted to them and would feel safer if there was a polite+clear way to reject you
or in general how you should be skeptical of people using philosophy or math or econ to come to bizarre/blackpilled conclusions without considering like "this is a rationalisation of feelings of a person who needs to go outside"
boring take on this is
-talent is definitely a thing yes
-especially in the US we are nowhere near the frontier of what people can be taught with adequate maths education
Part of being a mathematician is finding something you feel you can’t understand, and nonetheless working to understand it. Rather than claiming expertise about the role of genetics in math, Murray might benefit by showing some curiosity about what it is mathematicians do.
ok i have to admit i'm struggling to see any reason documents produced by scotus justices should be confidential other than "if people see how the sausage gets made they might take the Very Serious Law People less seriously"
man i feel like even if you have a baseline male sexuality if you're willing to date trans women theres an insane amount of alpha in transitioning
now that you're a girl and have gained ppl's trust you can get an instant harem by taking advantage of the top shortage
@ElytraMithra
i think correcting both the modus ponens and the modus tollens from "if my parents were abusive they couldn't have ~cared about me' is important
interesting common thread between people who hate Kelsey Piper/people who hate Natalie Wynn/maybe Ezra Klein to some extent
for some people being 99th percentile calm/agreeable is seen as a status play and pisses them off
@ElyEelee
hrt feels very Artistic License Science to me
"you take the Girl Juice and become a Girl"
nooo that can't be right it's like one of those movies where genetic mutations can make you part dinosaur
isn't real biochemistry supposed to look like this:?
feels like i'll probably be the last trans generation of the ghetto and there's something poignant about that.
20 years from now the youth will think i'm a lunatic for buying hormones of the interwebs bcause "you can't trust the gubment"
i feel like if we keep talking about bombing data centres at some point someone will actually bomb a data centre
ratspace has lots of ideological weirdos
Thinking about this woman who used CRISPR to make her testicles produce estrogen (and it worked)
I wish stuff like this was more researched and implemented widely
Getting a "feminization vaccine" once and escaping the dependency on regular hrt is the Holy Grail of transition
@comewhatmaenad
@TWakalix
if we're going to principle of charity this:
i think a lot of women are socialised to need an excuse to not have sex with someone
'i have a boyfriend' etc
and like
sometimes some of them discover and grow to rely on the excuse "i'm a lesbian"
this predictably goes terribly
@pervocracy
the more I hear about us evangelical Christianity the more wack it sounds.
there’s like absolutely no epistemic filter idk how people think that way
filing "you're not really poly you just have avoidant attachment style" along with "bsdm is self harm" and "there is some social contagion wrt kids IDing as trans" in my 'spicy takes that are true but not actually a big deal' cabinet
Like, Burning Man is a networking event, "just put LEDs on it" isn't art, everyone thinks "free speech" on the internet means "censorship for everyone but my team", and no you're not really poly you just have avoidant attachment style
my reading of the 'you broke up with him, right?' is monog women terrified their partner will break up with them as soon as they find someone more conventionally attractive then themselves
do you really think that little of yourself and your partner?
one of my partners once was like 'you're not that pretty' during a tender moment
i rolled over in the fetal position and groaned for like an hour, and then he went and made me an im sorry card out of construction paper and markers and stickers
@parafactual
i have a maybe slightly uncharitable reaction to the shtick of 'dropped out of math to cry a lot and process feelings about girls' of like
if you're not taking estrogen this seems like not your comparative advantage?
leads to a trans-friendly space with an unusually low rate of tearing each other apart
but also 0% surprised than many trans ppl don't get this and are suspicious
@typedfemale
man
at the end of the day i can't help but have any reaction to zack-m-davisism other than "this is an exotic flower of an ideology that can't grow anywhere else but this greenhouse we've built"
A new study presented data on mental rotation ability and digit ratios among cis, trans, and nonbinary people.
It also had data on sexual orientation change with hormonal transition.
First, check out mental rotation differences:
increasingly developing a theory that stimulants are bad for a lot of traumaqueers drawn to the rationalist community and they should instead do a bunch of psychedelics
@ChessProblem
um
notably missing is the sentence "we sent an email to the team alerting them to the accusations and asking 'are you sure this is a good idea?'"
im starting to notice this weirdly ahistorical narrative among the IDW
that the '90s and '00s were a libertine egalitarian utopia until feminists/queers/whatever suddenly developed a severe case of Deranged Takes and everything went wrong
none of these are true please stop it
the bluepill/redpill discourse reminds me of the time my dad sent me eleventy paragraphs with citations trying to persuade me not to transition.
he meant well he's just a conservatively minded guy who was terrified for me.
conservative redpillism from a place of empathy :p
(It seems quite likely to me that the epistemic environment in these places as deteriorated in the past 10 years as a result of evaporative cooling, fwiw)
@ElyEelee
hrt feels very Artistic License Science to me
"you take the Girl Juice and become a Girl"
nooo that can't be right it's like one of those movies where genetic mutations can make you part dinosaur
isn't real biochemistry supposed to look like this:?
eggridy beggridy
test for integrity:
do they treat people in
fursuits with care?
cruelty to people with
anthropomorphozoo-
-philiac tendencies?
don't give them air
ok i did not hear about this but apparently oat milk companies are now doing the obvious thing and fortifying their stuff with vitamin b12 etc
i think probability of me going vegan in the near future has gone up significantly
answer is i think to double down on these values and get ppl to realise how weird they are + make sure newer blood is on board.
appreciated when poly discourse was a thing for precisely this reason.