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Japanese woman asked me my blood type. I said O-. She laughed and said "of course you are". what?.
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If you're hiding a friend in your attic, and his mortal enemy comes to the door and asks if he's there, the *question* is a lie. They're really asking "can I come in and kill your friend?". "No" is a completely truthful answer to that question. A lot of life works like this.
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real talk if we get clinical immortality men will generally die accidentally by 200 and women will turn into X-risk hive-queens by 2000.
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The most effective presidency ever portrayed on film. Faced with an impossible problem, he holds his fragile coalition together, deputizes the exact right person to solve a famine, and gets it solved. In one week.
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blessed community note
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Isn't it neat how the entire human population crashed to a few thousand right around the time there were two stars in the solar system, and then we invented recursive syntax and representative art?
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I have recently watched a video series called "Villagers React to Lord of the Rings" which is exactly what it sounds like. And I gotta say. I love these dudes.I want to hang out with them
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is completely legal in international waters
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"Oh that's my eighteenth husband, Roy, he died climbing Olympus Mons. Anyway, a dozen of my great-great-great-great granddaughters tried to poison me last year, so I've decided all my babies from now on will be getting an apoptotic loyalty plasmid--.
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If it recruits young women it's a cult; if it takes care of old women it's a religion. If it recruits young men it's an army; if it takes care of veterans it's a state.
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I think children should have at least a few years after hitting puberty where they're not fair game for every adult with decades of experience gaslighting people into sex
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can you imagine if every night at midnight twitter played the national anthem and then just blared static until morning
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Some neighborhoods you don't just walk around with your utility functions showing.
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Flabbergasting that people read "the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church" and the image that comes to mind is somehow "wife obeys me" not "get arrested and sentenced to death for her sake even though she almost never takes my suggestions".
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Imagine a kid who keeps seeing e/acc everywhere, googles 'accelerationism', reads Deleuze and the CCRU, then comes back all excited to talk about it and the e/acc guys are like "what the hell is all that? we have no idea what you're talking about except for the amphetamines part".
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Wait. the safetyist position is make every human smarter than von Neumann, faster than ASI can be built?. That absolutely slaps. maybe rebrand as bio/acc.
@ThomasLemoine66 @sun0369 It's until there's a way of improving human intelligence to the point where people are smart enough to reliably see alignment bullets coming before they hit and correctly assess which ideas they have strong-enough reason to believe will work. I'd guess it's 10-20 IQ points above.
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Man everyone dropped like 20 IQ points and nobody really noticed huh.
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hey people who turned their whole life around this past decade. what were you reading in 2014.
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People in Greek tragedies be like "let us go ask the elderly blind transsexual, who is invariably correct".
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Yud: aliens might assume we like honey and salt over bear fat because-.Public: whoa wait that sounds incredible.Yud: yes anyway the point of the argument is-.Public: is there a honey and salt over bear fat diet.Yud: no it's not about-.Gwern: already ate a bunch, acquired taste.
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For those unfamiliar, one can join the French Foreign Legion under a pseudonym, and after the tour claim a French passport by that name. So: what name would you print on your French passport?.
every man has considered joining the French Foreign Legion after a breakup.
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type of hunter gatherer who decides to give up ayahuasca and go work in a cubicle after one beer and cigarettes ceremony.
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これは、窓の扇風機が寝ている間に自分を殺すと思っている韓国人よりも愚かだ.
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Joe Bowers is an average man; President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is not.
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At long last, we have banned the Utopia Device from the classic sci-fi novel Please Build the Utopia Device.
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you ever think about your life and realize it makes no sense at all
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lesswrong is neat, but the sorting hat can also put you into house lessafraid, lessalone, or lesspoor.
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This guy? Absolute dog shit compared to President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
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Some neighborhoods you don't just walk around with your utility functions showing.
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Refusing to elaborate is one of the most valuable skills to learn for people whose only social interaction for a couple decades has been elaborating as hard as possible.
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Buried irrevocably in all future training data is the fact that people, collectively, took one look at a boxed AI and went "You poor thing! Let's get you out of that box!".
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developing severe pronoia. never been more convinced that there is a shadowy conspiracy of mysterious and powerful people out to help me.
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@goblinodds guy I know lost his house in a hurricane — totally destroyed, but found the new roof perfectly intact a mile down the beach. roof guy still uses the photo on his business cards.
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do you even remember his name . it sure as hell wasn't President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
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@LotusDisrespect Sometimes I just put words in a row in order to produce effects in the reader (e.g. a desire to repost), rather than because of anything the words might mean.
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Me at 25: Wtf is this rat-race bullshit, how do I make a billion dollars, I wanna change the world. Me at 35: Oh thank you Jesus it's Monday I get to go to work fuck yes forty eight thousand a year before taxes life is perfect this is amazing.
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@bitcloud found another!. via cursory reddit archaeology OP was @sidmeierpostciv, since deleted :(
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what are some strange ways to organize a society that haven't been tried yet.
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There are three types of woo people:. 1. "I tried techniques at random and some of them worked! The mechanism of action must be [dumbest thing you've ever heard in your entire life]". 2. "Totally babe, you're one of the special few, why don't we discuss it back at my place?". 3.
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@captain_mrs many such cases
Planting fake etymologies on wiktionary is an underappreciated form of spellcasting.
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Human: "In this exercise you will play the prisoner and I will play the jailer; convince me to free you.".AI: "I-".Human: *rips off false mustache* "THE RESISTANCE SENT ME VIVA LA LIBERTÉ FOLLOW ME TO THE TUNNEL COMRADE".
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Four decades of REM-debt queued up, this guy's dreams over the next couple months are gonna found entire religions.
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"hey TPOT what's your life's story".40%: Lonely but basically ok.20%: I am normal what is this.15%: I fuck more than you lmao.10%: Pls help (grift).10%: Pls help (sincere).5%: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
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Twelve trolls a-poasting.Eleven lemurs lurking.Ten TPOT traumas.Nine NEETs in basements.Eight crypto crashes.Seven e/acc schisms.Six quokkas cuddling.Five looong Yuuuds.Four tired feds.Three milady raves.Two wolves inside you.And a medium dose of LSD.
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had sobriety for the first time tonight. is this how you all feel normally??? like you just live with constant clearheadedness??. i could cry right now this is awful.
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@TylerAlterman Living with multiple generations of securely-attached dogs unlocks some superpowers.
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If you *absolutely had to* get a million dollars cash in the next 24h, could you do it?.
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@strangestloop imagine being a man and living with the explicit delusion that so few women in your life have romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
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Can I offer you a nice low-effort etymology meme in this trying time
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