sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
9d ago
I'd assume in the ancestral environment the young women would be mostly daughters and nieces or otherwise related to the older women. So it wouldn't be competition, it would be trying to spread one's genes more.
"Already old and has grandchildren" is quite the goalpost movement. When I think of the modal "lonely male" it's not someone who already has grandchildren, it's someone who never had children yet, or estranged from them in a divorce.
sun_the_second
9d ago
This is the kind of guy they make uplifting youtube videos about. "This man has been picking pineapples for 30 YEARS, this is his story.".
sun_the_second
10d ago
If your only concern is that I'm saying "AI might kill us" rathen than "people who instantiated a particularly unpredictable AI that has 'might kill us' as a possible emergent function might kill us", I'm glad to oblige, but it doesn't really change any argument. There's no AI that might kill us right now, therefore the people who would create it are to blame whether it's """truly""" agentic or not.
sun_the_second
10d ago
What does materialism or lack thereof have to do with being effectively agentic? If the AI is going to kill all of us the last thing I care about is whether it had free will or a light inside its mind.
sun_the_second
10d ago
I gotta say, knowing the context doesn't make this look much less like 3am drunk philosophy.
sun_the_second
11d ago
See, you're already adding qualifiers like "meaningfully". For you to believe "meaningfully" seems to mean that you have to accept the conclusion that brains of different ethnicities have been subjected to divergent evolution enough to have significant impact on group capabilities.
sun_the_second
12d ago
only if it's not a "fashion" hat (so yes for a beanie), yes, yes, no, depends on dress code, yes, yes, no, no, no
sun_the_second
12d ago
The NOTSEE acronym is kind of obvious, so I suspected it was cribbed even though I've never studied the original.
sun_the_second
12d ago
When did they show that Strange could do that? All I recall is him reversing time for specific objects, making clones sounds like it would be something that makes things worse even if he could do it, such as by creating Homestuck-esque "doomed timelines".
If he returns to the past with the time stone it just means quickload, not Ctrl X Ctrl V.
Later on, when they timetravel with Pym Particles it's explicit that they travel to alternate past, not their own.
sun_the_second
13d ago
I can't tell if this is supposed to be ironic since he pretty much did all that.
sun_the_second
13d ago
I'd wager it's easier to go to the dentist than to subject yourself to beatings precisely because of the ability to reason that pain at the dentist is an unfortunate consequence of getting healthier teeth, not the entire point.
I have lost track of what you're trying to prove, but if it's "being able to voluntarily and without hesitation go get beaten for no good reason other than 'you'll get beaten more' is a reasonable standard for a child", it's going to be a tough sell. I doubt many here would meet that standard as adults, if a bunch of armed men broke into their house right now.
sun_the_second
13d ago
Having to harshly reject advances every once in a while is less harm than never getting laid, according to my calculation.
sun_the_second
13d ago
That's only the motte of advertising's value. I am not under the impression that if there was 10, or hell even 100 times less advertising in our world, people would struggle to find information about new products and services.
sun_the_second
13d ago
Thanos is physically very tough, I can understand not trying the portal cut if Strange was reasonably sure it would just tickle him.
I read Loki giving up the cube as a trick to momentarily distract Thanos while Hulk jumps him. The Vision thing is absolutely stupid, though, yes.
sun_the_second
13d ago
I specified advertizing because advertizing is explicitly not about leaning down the production to make the products cheaper, but rather at capturing more buyers. For a buyer, it does not matter whether they buy product A or product B if the products are identical but one captures 90% of attentionspace. For companies, it means an order of magnitude in revenue.
sun_the_second
13d ago
What does it mean to "believe" in Darwinian evolution?
sun_the_second
13d ago
"To a company" does a lot of legwork here. Jobs that are essential to companies but only for the companies to compete for the market and squeeze each other out, with nearly zero sum for society, are the classic example of a bullshit job.
sun_the_second
13d ago
I doubt anyone at that point was even thinking about using the stones themselves. Quill could barely survive holding the Power Stone by sharing it with all his friends.
sun_the_second
13d ago
The only reason Steve got picked by the guy who developed the highly experimental and unproven Super Soldier Serum is because he showed the willingness to sacrifice himself when he threw himself over a grenade during bootcamp.
And also in general because he expressed that he wants to fight the Nazis to protect his people, not to kill the Nazis. It is highlighted that the serum corrupted Red Skull because Red Skull had the wrong morality. Many John Walkers would also fail. To be fair I haven't watched Thunderbolts, so maybe John was just as pure-hearted as Steve.
sun_the_second
13d ago
Avoiding pain on a basic level sounds like what evolutionary instincts are supposed to do. They developed way before sadistic will-breaking cultures did.
sun_the_second
14d ago
Aella is at an intersection of being in ratsphere, actually having a rat mindset at least by my standards, and being a conventionally attractive woman as opposed to someone you picture when you hear "poly". I find that explains the interest, and I don't really think it's all that excessive, or fawny. When people repost Aella here it seems to lack signs of simping that aren't present in e.g. reposting Hanania or Jim or any other substacker.
sun_the_second
14d ago
Also for someone smart, she acted kinda dumb. "Oh no, if I do this thing, I'll be punished" but she can't figure out - e.g. with the spankings - "okay, grit my teeth, suffer this one, and then I'm free". Instead it took eleven beatings until she worked out "do it and get it over with". I'm sorry for her, but she definitely was not the sharpest tool in the box when figuring out how to deal with the situation. Probably because she was so over-sensitive and over-emotional, hence the karate lessons were the kind of outside distraction she did need to learn how to toughen up.
Not being yet conditioned to instantly come over for more beating right after being beaten does not sound like a failure of intelligence to me.
Sorry for being vague, but I'm a little paranoid. For what it's worth you're right my connections to Russia are a bit distant (second cousin tier), bit I do have them, it's also true that it's been a while since moved (but it's more 15-ish years than 30)
This is fair, I'm not asking for a biography, just a bit of context.
We've had Russians living in the west that got canceled for not condemning Putin, do you think their anxiety, and assurances that they moved out for ideological reasons, might have something to do with that?
I'm more familiar with the Russians who never needed to be cowed into condemning Putin by canceling because they were doing that back in Russia, with great enthusiasm, and were anxious because of potential retaliation from the Russian government, not the Western blob. There are a few emigrants I personally know who have voiced relief in private after moving out. Admittedly, I also know someone who moved out for money, and then came back when living in Russia offered more money.
Also, I think it's completely wrong to call western government and society less restrictive. They might be more encouraging of degeneracy, but they definitely do not leave you alone to do your own thing, even when you're not harming anyone.
True, but it's a different kind of restrictive. One could even argue prospiratorial restriction by "society" is, if anything, more natural and easier to roll with than arbitrarily-tyrannical restriction from top to bottom by faceless bureaucrats and cops.
I just don't want companies like pornhub and onlyfans operating in broad daylight,
I think Russia as a state will be worse off after formally kicking out all the platforms that were hosting badspeak and not having a big enough slice of the internet to compensate locally. But maybe that's just wishful thinking.
It's still begging the question.
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