site banner
Advanced search parameters (with examples): "author:quadnarca", "domain:reddit.com", "over18:true"

Showing 25 of 10550 results for

domain:houseofstrauss.com

This sounds a lot like "any snow flake is free to slide down the mountain, it is the avalanches that are the problem".

Suppose there is a baker who runs an "Aryan Bakery" with a swastika in the logo, which is something which is very permissible from a freedom of speech point of view.

A lot of potential customers would make the personal choice not to do business with him, because they find Nazis repugnant. Most of these people would probably also unfriend anyone whom they saw using a branded bag from that place, which admittedly is a more concerning indirect effect, but imho still fair.

Overton windows are a feature of basically all societies. Liberal societies generally limit the repercussions for speech acts, e.g. they will mostly not put you in jail for speech unless you are directly inciting violence. But unless you are already on the outermost edges of society, it is likely that speech acts outside the Overton window will have some repercussions for you.

This is not always ideal. I am sure that there are good ideas whose adoption took and continues to take longer because most people who had them knew that they were icky ideas, and a significant fraction of their society would consider them a bad person if they voiced them publicly. Atheism, gay rights and embryo selection would all be such examples, from where I stand.

Still, this is unavoidable. There are a lot of sellers in the marketplace of ideas, so that no person can carefully examine all the ideas every vendor has on offer. So people need some heuristics. And one such heuristic is "if someone promotes what seems to be a terrible idea, you should adjust your estimate of their average idea quality downwards."

Interesting take on time blocking, think you are right. I have pretty strict blocks on my computer (internet will block itself after 9pm for example). But the blocks don’t really deal with the fundamental problem, which means I’m always looking for ways around them.

A critical third leg of Liberalism is contractualism. There must be a set of rules that limit those with great amounts of power, such that the common people have some inalienable cloister to retreat to. Neither Assad's Syria or Somalia in the 2010's were liberal states because you had to live under the constant threat that some powerful psycho would ruin your life on a whim with no reprisal.

This leg is probably the most collapsed of the three, and generally three begets two begets one.

I think I didn't communicate it clearly. People that profess pedophilia should be ridiculed and shunned. It's not a matter of accepting the idea, it's the very fact of openly brandishing that constitutes the harm to the social fabric.

The rules of The Motte are not applicable to society at large, any more than the rules of the Oxford Debate Club or the Japanese Parliament.

People spend the majority of their waking lives largely doing these things, they are important regardless of superficiality. Most people's impact on the world is primarily what they do, not what they think. And even in terms of ideology, MeanRedMan and MeanBlueGuy are most critically, promoters of the American cultural hegemony and distributors of various propaganda.

That's the plan! Been alternating between weightlifting and swimming. I'll report back end in December.

Speak for yourself, I want my output to be part of the machine god.

Its funny, for years and years, even before LLMs started to speak to us, I was mindful of the digital footprint I was leaving, lest some future intelligence (human or otherwise) radically misjudge the type of person I was.

I've been extremely selective about the content I engage with on the internet and the sort of records about myself that I leave behind on these sites. I don't give out 'likes' or 'upvotes' or similar flippantly. I wouldn't "like" a piece of content unless I could see myself enjoying that type of content for eons in a digitally simulated afterlife. I take 5 star rating systems seriously, would never give something 5 stars out of custom or convenience (same reason I wouldn't give out 1 stars that often). I want 5 stars to mean I REALLY like something, and I hope that's how it gets interpreted.

I sometimes go back to my record of old movie ratings and reviews just to check that I still hold certain movies in the same esteem. I almost always do. So if the AI is either force-feeding me all the old media it thinks I like or generating new entertainment for me endlessly, I can be sure it got my preferences right.

My preferences in general seem extremely metastable, even if my interest in something or other waxes and wanes in a cycle.

People like to joke "if I die, delete my browser history." I might say something more like "If I die, scrape the entirety of my browser history and all of my account data from every website I used with any regularity AND the entire contents of all my hard drives and phone and use that to create a digital facsimile of me."

I wonder if the many people who consistently falsify their preferences (or never figure out their actual preferences) might end up getting shoved in personal dystopias for a while while the AI God is trying to figure out how to maximize happiness for everyone.

When in doubt, get fucking jacked. I suck at losing weight. But if you can't shrink the waist to keep that classic V shape, you can increase the chest, back and shoulders.

This is year I get fit. (he said for the 5th time.)

No but really. I look great at 185lb and look fat at 200lb. The 15lb makes all the difference.

I've started doing cardio again. I'm cautiously optimistic. (What is this, wellness wednesday?)

(My Rothfuss-esque pathological need to reveal my inner monologue in brackets is unbecoming of a middle aged man. But, such is life)

Ideal answer would involve a PTZ self-resetting fuse

These at least used to have a failure mode where they failed short when abused often, and I've typically seen them paired with a real fuse that handles that case.

just the belly (╥﹏╥)

I've been really tempted to get a GameSir for my laptop. I hear the back bumpers are surprisingly intuitive, and have a coworker who swears by them.

Appreciate your sharing some details of the manufacturing trade-offs. It's more the size of the thing that baffles me, although it did make it much easier to work on. Okay there's a large antenna in there, but that just raises the question of why the antenna is larger than the antenna in a wifi dongle? And why add a 2m cable for a wireless dongle? Anyone who needs the extension could use an extension lead.

I'd also be interested in any speculation for why the fuse failed. As you say I had left it plugged in when I wasn't using it (I don't anymore), and even though I now have 9 extra spare fuses on hand I'd prefer to avoid any need to repeat that type of soldering. Other than loose connections I've never had any other USB devices fail whether they're high draw like charging a battery or low draw like a USB stick, or a wired controller.

Big dick problems?

In general I support the basic tenets of PUA/TRP but I think they kinda get it wrong here.

Women actually love men who are nice*. The lovable himbo who's good around the house and would take a bullet for his beloved is a common enough trope in female-gaze content. The issue is that being nice on its own is not enough. You have to be nice and also attractive. Where "attractive" is a combination of 1) physically attractive (enough) and 2) a certain je ne sais quoi which is not strictly reducible to confidence or competence or dominance and etc, but is clearly related to them in some intimate fashion.

"Being nice" gets a bad rap because the types of low value / socially awkward men who make "being nice" their primary conscious sexual strategy 1) tend to have a poor model of how social interaction works to begin with, so they interpret perfectly benign actions (like mild negging, or well-timed sexual advances) as "being an asshole", when actually those actions are perfectly as "nice" as any other and are interpreted as such by the woman in question, and 2) the men who go all in on "being nice" unfortunately tend to not be attractive to begin with. There's a certain type of sperg who naturally sends out waves of female-repellent radiation. It's a je ne sais quoi of its own, but it's a negative vibe rather than a positive one. For these unfortunate men, "being nice" is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Their fallacy is to blame their failure on the fact that they were too nice, rather than on their own intrinsic unattractiveness.

(* Of course there's a wide range of tastes, there are hybristophiles, etc, but that doesn't detract from the basic point that both men and women enjoy interacting with people who are pleasant to interact with, almost by definition.)

10 pounds? Those are rookie numbers, son.

Unfortunately.

Game theory problems only emerge at scale. Smaller communities don't suffer from them nearly as much for this reason.

That's probably the only reason this community in particular can maintain some level of integrity in its core mission, in fact.

On the other hand, the internet means EVERYTHING social happens 'at scale' now.

Of course our coordination is getting worse. We're also becoming more lonely despite being "more connected" than ever. The reasons are more obvious the less educated one is.

Yeah. And the only big coordination 'win' that we've achieved lately is Bitcoin and cryptocurrency allowing trustless, decentralized transaction of currency.

And we've even turned THAT achievement into a casino full of rugpulls and fraud.

You could start by asking if you already know the person involved (either the one you're talking to or the one you're talking about).

"Would you love me if I was a worm"

Ah, the God Emperor of Dune question.

Last one was April 2024. I was talking with Ymeskhout about trying for one in late March of that year, but even when we fired up the Discord call it didn't really go anywhere successful, and then his last post on the motte was last April, and he deleted his x twitter account somewhere around the same time frame. Still active on substack, so doing... well, I won't say okay, but still typing.

Women (or at least the ones I encounter in my British PMC social circles, excluding the blue-haired feminists) only think or say, "Would you love me if I was a worm?" if they are hot and know it. Women want to hear "I love you and you are hot, but I would still love you anyway if you weren't." "I love you because you are hot" is second-best. "I love you even though you are not hot" is something that might work as push-pull/negging/whatever, but doesn't validate a woman or make her feel secure in the relationship.

Don't PUAs hammer in over and over that the boyfriend's nice personality is only praise because it is predicated on him being the boyfriend in the first place?

Only because of the word "nice". The point of PUA is that women are attracted by certain personality traits which are not "nice" but are attractive - and indeed are attracted by these traits far more than they are by conventional hotness (hence why Mystery could get laid while looking like a tranny), and are turned off by a "nice" personality. Part of the promise of OG PUA is that you can get far more bangs for your buck by learning how to perform "alphaness" that you can by hitting the gym.

For retro or retro-like games, there's some advantages -- trying to play something like Megaman X or Legend of Mana on the standard Nintendo layout means either fighting with an analog stick that's either too eager to have you go diagonally or nonresponsive to small movements (or both!), or offsetting your left hand to get to the dpad and feeling a bit like a crab a couple hours later. There's even a few specialized retro handheld consoles that will let you switch what layouts are present for this specific use case (and to support six-button controllers like the Genesis on the right hand side).

But dunno if there's that much on the Switch market that's actually focused toward those games.

Space King 3 is out

The "Did you know" memes on twitter are glorious. Truly the peak of culture.

Game theory problems only emerge at scale. Smaller communities don't suffer from them nearly as much for this reason. I believe in the capability of exceptional individuals, humanity has advanced thanks to great people/'giants', the mediocre masses add very little value.

I also happen to have reverse engineered some of these dynamics, and probably better than 99% of researchers, for I have solutions that I don't see anyone else talk about directly. Granted, Jordan Peterson wrote a book warning about excessive order, but I don't think he realizes that he's mathematically correct in warning against that. And do you know that the definition we use for "rational agent" is one which always seeks its own advantage? If our ideal for how one ought to think is completely void of good taste (like that definition is), then we will run into problems which didn't exist in the past because good taste used to protect against it.

How do you get somebody to do 1000$ worth of labour, without paying them, and without coercion? It seems impossible mathematically, and yet, my grandma has sometimes done this, just because she enjoys helping people. By making people more intelligent, but less human, less things become possible. General intelligence might conflict with instincts, as learning logical thinking is all about suppressing your natural biases, instincts, emotions, etc.

Accurate world models aren't bad per se, but they're not sufficient. Being completely objective also puts you at a high risk of becoming a nihilist.

Of course our coordination is getting worse. We're also becoming more lonely despite being "more connected" than ever. The reasons are more obvious the less educated one is.

The stubborn 10 pounds that's spilling out of my pants. (╥﹏╥)