erwgv3g34
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SOMA is one of those Muggle Plots that immediately gets solved once you accept the pattern theory of identity.
Literally just put the original in dreamless sleep before making the copy (
Before the process, there was one of you in the old body. After the process, there is one of you in the new substrate, which is what we wanted. No one had to experience
EDIT: Original post defining the term.
Millennial here. I just write my name down in cursive. For a while when I was a teenager I tried to half-ass a real signature by adding come curves on top, but I gave up on that years ago.
Signatures, like wax seals, are an obsolete relic of an age before instant telecommunications and cryptographic security. The idea was to have unique glyph that was easy for the owner to recreate and easy for other people to read and compare with other examples of the same glyph but hard for other people to forge.
These days it basically works on the honor system; I have never seen anybody compare signatures against an example on file before authenticating a transaction.
Maybe you just have better executive function than I do? All I can tell you is that three pairs have really saved my ass when one pair was long-term lost (later found between the bed and the wall), the second pair I was using was short-term lost (left in the bathroom) and I really had to go out the door to get to work.
Besides, each pair was only $30 (again, Zenni + Black Friday), so why not.
erwgv3g34
6mo ago
Pressuring men to marry is both unnecessary and useless. One antisocial fuckboy can lead on thirty girls indefinitely.
Sperm is cheap, eggs are expensive; you guard what is expensive, not what is cheap.
Once you are willing and able to use physical force, social pressure, and economic privation to coerce women into only having sex inside of marriage, you will have plenty of hardworking beta providers lining up to marry the resulting virgin brides. Or, at least, you will if you also get rid of such nonsense as marital "rape" laws and no-fault divorce that understandably makes men afraid to get married.
(Imagine that the government passed a law that, at any moment, your employer can decide to stop paying you, and if you ever quit or get fired, he is entitled to steal half your assets; that's what marriage 2.0 is. What happens to the labor market in this scenario? Solve for the equilibrium.)
erwgv3g34
9mo ago
No, actually, I think I that's correct? In my experience, people who are addicted to alcohol or smoking or porn almost never stop, and the best defense is to avoid become addicted in the first place by not even trying the addictive habit in the first place (trivial for heroin and tobacco, harder for alcohol and porn, impossible for food).
Like, if you expect an alcoholic or drug addict or a masturbator to give up their vices, you are going to have a bad time; very few do. You are much better off deciding if you are willing to accept that person addiction and all or if you would rather cut them off from your life. Same for expecting a fat person to lose weight. Ignoring morality/desert, it requires a nearly superhuman level of willpower that the vast majority of people empirically do not have.
erwgv3g34
10mo ago
I have the intuition that adding a relationship is less bad than replacing a relationship. Like, if a married couple that already has a child decides to have a second child, or if a person who only has one friend one day manages to get another friend, that's a perfectly normal and positive development. Whereas if a couple has a second child and then throws out their first child into the streets because the second child is taller and stronger and smarter and they have decided that they want to invest all of their resources into one child, that would be evil.
Likewise, the desire of men to add a second woman to their marriage seems to me a lot more honest and healthy than that thing women do where they swear they will love you forever only to turn around and act like you never existed the second a better option comes long.
I think I would have preferred being the senior member of a harem to that.
What the articles tells me is that getting women into science is simply not worth the trouble; each time some broad opens her piehole, we lose a luminary.
Can you imagine if this nonsense had been around while Richard Feynman was still alive?
erwgv3g34
1yr ago
I think there are no good options for infertile men even if they do not want to have children themselves.
Adopt a sibling's child? Use a brother's sperm to impregnate the wife?
erwgv3g34
36m ago
erwgv3g34
22hr ago
This is why the best ranking method is a simple thumb up/down (or upvote/downvote, or like/dislike). Then you report the ratio, which runs the whole gamut from 1% to 99%. YouTube used to do this before they decided that dislikes were problematic. FIMFiction still uses it.
(Admittedly, this system does have the issue of only working in aggregate; there is no way for a single reviewer to distinguish between something that is barely worth watching and the greatest story ever told.)
erwgv3g34
1d ago
How do I get prescription stimulants without a prescription?
(If I had enough conscientiousness to be able to get a prescription, I wouldn't need the stimulants.)
Following up on Rear Window, I watched The Birds (1963) yesterday. Apparently Netflix licensed a bunch of Alfred Hitchcock movies; good to know.
Some thoughts:
- We never find out why the birds are attacking, though the trailer implies they are rebelling against human abuse.
- You know how modern horror movies will make you spend twenty minutes with jerks before the monster shows up and starts fucking people up? This movie takes a whole hour for the first major bird attack to take place; that's half of its runtime!
- FMC is adventurous, perhaps a little too much so; lying at the drop of a hat, breaking into LI's home for a prank, etc.
- The shot of the lovebirds leaning with the car turns was amusing.
- LI's jaw could cut diamonds.
- Smoker culture is prevalent, with people offering strangers cigarettes as they would a glass of water.
- Phone calls are expensive enough that FMC offers to pay for them, but cheap enough that the postmaster eats the cost.
- Special effects are a little dated; it's very easy to tell that the actors are in one layer and the birds in another.
- Scariest part of the movie? The post office with a sign saying that dog licenses are issued there. "Oi, mate! Ya got a loicense for dat pupper?"
erwgv3g34
15d ago
If you are too crazy to be trusted with a firearm, you should not be out in public, period.
erwgv3g34
25d ago
Why is this all pony literature?
The question is not why; the question is, why not?
But if you absolutely need a non-pony option, try The Number by NothingnessAbove.
See also The Mortal Instruments, which was adapted from the author's earlier Draco Trilogy.
In a sane world, writers could just publish their fanfic commercially and send a royalty check to the copyright holder. But we do not live in a sane world.
The method of execution should be public — I favor hangings, although I’m open to other methods which are similarly visually evocative without being overly torturous.
Hispanic cultures used the garrote, which seems very comparable to the Anglo method of hanging. Firing squads are appropriate for military personnel.
erwgv3g34
2mo ago
Have you ever tried Ground Control? It's a little old, but I really liked it. Very story-heavy. Focus on formations and maneuvers with a small number of pre-deployed units.
I got tired of accidentally destroying my laptops and got a renewed Dell Latitude 5414. It's been working pretty well so far.
Alternatively, you may want to buy a used Alphasmart Neo for distraction-free writing.
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
Truly a thinking man's fetish.
erwgv3g34
5mo ago
Dr. hbd nrx is pretty good.
Or just pay like 10% of the most motherhood-friendly women to produce 20 children and raise them in an orphanage (they can visit of course) , that also works and intrudes less in people's personal lives.
I am always amazed at the things people will propose just to avoid rolling back 60 years of feminism.
Academic writing is fucking terrible. It's like they are trying to be as dry and boring as possible on purpose to signal how serious and high-status they are. Compare the writing in your average prestigious journal paper to a good popular science book like The Selfish Gene or Pale Blue Dot.
Moldbug's writing is terrible in a different way; overtly obscurantist and meandering. It's intentional, but I don't like it. The Dreaded Jim describes it thus:
I say things in the crudest and most direct possible way, a full frontal assault on crimestop, while Moldbug liked, and Namefag Yarvin likes, to use long winded circumlocution, so that people likely to crimestop out what he is saying will have an easy time crimestopping thoughts they do not want to hear.
It's not about length; I can read long texts, if written well. I don't balk at reading a 10k-word blog post by Scott Alexander.
Just to be clear, since this is a very common misconception, Eliezer advocated conventional airstrikes on GPU clusters, not a nuclear first strike. He brought up nuclear war because you have to be willing to do it even if the rogue datacenter is located inside a nuclear power like Russia or China and military action therefore carries some inherent risk of going nuclear. But most people read that paragraph and rounded it to "Eliezer advocates nuking rogue GPU clusters", because of course they did.
He elaborates on this on the two addenda to that Times piece that he posted on Twitter, as seen on the LessWrong edition of the article.
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