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euphronius posted:Or like an entire galaxy that is pink. Maybe there are a bunch of constellations shaped like the alien's genitalia but how would we know??
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Which chaos cult possesses the most maximum utility? For you see I am a discerning and savy millennial consumer and I won't just give up my skull for nothing
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zoux posted:Maybe there are a bunch of constellations shaped like the alien's genitalia but how would we know?? we ask before we eat them we ask, son, we ask.
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lots of people thing worshipping yahweh is a chaos cult.
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Berke Negri posted:Which chaos cult possesses the most maximum utility? For you see I am a discerning and savy millennial consumer and I won't just give up my skull for nothing euphronius posted:lots of people thing worshipping yahweh is a chaos cult.
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Dec 10, 2014 18:48
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The Dickbutt Constellation gives your Elder Scrolls character +10 charisma and +10 stamina.
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ReindeerF posted:What's the Aasimov short story about how the world will end? Something like with one scientist saying to another, "I wonder what happens if we do this..." http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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i really hope that if CETI ever picks up anything significant, it turns out to be the alien equivalent of I Love Lucy reruns
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zoux posted:Harvard Business School... I assume Harvard Law School have a better self-control. Because they can't bill spending their own time on petty bullshit with 1.000$/h
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paragon1 posted:I don't know but it reminds me of an Isaac Asimov short story. Does it involve a sheriff getting so frustrated with doing his taxes (that he insists on doing himself), that he repeatedly shouts at the alien ambassadors to leave before even realizing they were aliens? It might be. Basically the aliens ask to see all the world's leaders while he was doing his taxes and he thought absent mindedly they were swarthy Italians from Venice, so he said he wanted us to be left alone. The aliens leave and say they will honor his wishes and prevent all space travel to and from Earth. The punchline was he misheard, they were from Venus, not Venice.
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paranoid randroid posted:i really hope that if CETI ever picks up anything significant, it turns out to be the alien equivalent of I Love Lucy reruns Plans to invade earth, along with detailed plans for subduing the mighty dinosaurs that roam the planet.
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actually, scratch that. I Love Xarblak might accidentally tell us something useful about their culture. i hope its something really stupid, like the alien equivalent of that geico caveman sitcom
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Sharkie posted:Plans to invade earth, along with detailed plans for subduing the mighty dinosaurs that roam the planet. a dinosaur invasion would be good for the economy
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Sharkie posted:Plans to invade earth, along with detailed plans for subduing the mighty dinosaurs that roam the planet. There's a story where in the rest of the universe, technological progress is extremely slow, so some conquering race sees us like in cavemen times and so they set out on a thousands years journey to conquer us with a level of tech necessary to subdue cavemen and they show up here in the modern era like "Bwuuuh??" and we kick their asses and take their poo poo and go on a galaxy wide murder spree.
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paranoid randroid posted:i really hope that if CETI ever picks up anything significant, it turns out to be the alien equivalent of I Love Lucy reruns Single Feeeemale Lawwwwyer having lots of sexxx.
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ReidRansom posted:I'm not sure my probably meager estate will be able to cover that expense. A few ounces of my ashes though, sure. Of course there's the option of setting up some sort of investment vehicle in a will to just grow until the cost of a sun burial and the value of the portfolio align. Idunno, hopefully I've got a lot of time to sort that all out. My life's ambitions are pretty humble. Have multiple kids, get them through college (or whatever's left of that institution by the time they're 18), and acquire a vehicle to rocket my corpse into the sun. I honestly think getting multiple kids through college will be way more expensive than hopefully 2050+ spaceflights.
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zoux posted:There's a story where in the rest of the universe, technological progress is extremely slow, so some conquering race sees us like in cavemen times and so they set out on a thousands years journey to conquer us with a level of tech necessary to subdue cavemen and they show up here in the modern era like "Bwuuuh??" and we kick their asses and take their poo poo and go on a galaxy wide murder spree. I, too, liked GalCiv II.
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 good job lebron. touch that royal shoulder.
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euphronius posted:
angry_entitled_whiteman.png chaos god chat: Europe really needs to privitize its prison systems or ship prisoners to Greece
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zoux posted:There's a story where in the rest of the universe, technological progress is extremely slow, so some conquering race sees us like in cavemen times and so they set out on a thousands years journey to conquer us with a level of tech necessary to subdue cavemen and they show up here in the modern era like "Bwuuuh??" and we kick their asses and take their poo poo and go on a galaxy wide murder spree. I think you're mixing two stories here, a alt history novel series where the aliens arrive during ww2 thinking they'll be fighting medieval knights and everything is wacky and a short story where some aliens invade in anti-grav ships but then open their firing hatches and start firing flintlock muskets at some marines because anti-grav tech doesn't follow all the science principles that our tech does so they never really developed along our lines of science. Naturally in the second one we start calling down artillery strikes and take their grav tech.
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Randler posted:I, too, liked GalCiv II. No that's an actual science fiction novel. Blindeye posted:It might be. Basically the aliens ask to see all the world's leaders while he was doing his taxes and he thought absent mindedly they were swarthy Italians from Venice, so he said he wanted us to be left alone. The aliens leave and say they will honor his wishes and prevent all space travel to and from Earth. Yeah that was an Asimov short. The Watery Place.
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namesake posted:I think you're mixing two stories here, a alt history novel series where the aliens arrive during ww2 thinking they'll be fighting medieval knights and everything is wacky and a short story where some aliens invade in anti-grav ships but then open their firing hatches and start firing flintlock muskets at some marines because anti-grav tech doesn't follow all the science principles that our tech does so they never really developed along our lines of science. Naturally in the second one we start calling down artillery strikes and take their grav tech. Ah yes you see you've stepped into my nerd trap...
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I think if we encountered the alien equivalent of I Love Lucy we'd have a cult set up around it inside a week.
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and porn of it within the hour.
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The Warszawa posted:lol I totally forgot that Chait lauded Charles Barkley as a political philosopher willing to ask the tough questions about "social pathologies in the black community" God he's so new republic he's mon loving mothma i think this post didn't get enough appreciation
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Badger of Basra posted:i think this post didn't get enough appreciation Trap loving sprung.
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So basically I'm thinking that the US entire torture policy during the Bush era was because they watched and liked 24.
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Also someone explain Roko's Basilisk to me.
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Also being genuinely horrible people, yes.
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zoux posted:Also someone explain Roko's Basilisk to me.
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zoux posted:So basically I'm thinking that the US entire torture policy during the Bush era was because they watched and liked 24. The CIA's torture program existed long, long before the Bush administration. Check out Dan Mitrione, for example.
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zoux posted:So basically I'm thinking that the US entire torture policy during the Bush era was because they watched and liked 24. The VP was a real life lich...
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zoux posted:Also someone explain Roko's Basilisk to me. There is a chance that I, Randler, will become a magnificient griffin that will tear all Americans to shreds. Therefore it is advisable that you swear fealty to Germany. Roko's Basilisk is like that with a basiliks that turns to into stone, I think.
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But like the whole thing is predicated on believing that torturing a perfect copy of me is the same as torturing me and well I don't by that. Sorry future hypothetical copy of me.Joementum posted:The CIA's torture program existed long, long before the Bush administration. On the institutional scale of under the Bush administration?
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zoux posted:Also someone explain Roko's Basilisk to me. "The human organism always worships. First, it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment."
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i will rationally request that the hypothetical future AI intercede on your hypothetical clone-self's behalf, zoux
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zoux you should be tortured forever for bring up this retarded bullshit
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namesake posted:"The human organism always worships. First, it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment." Are you quoting a video game at me paranoid randroid posted:i will rationally request that the hypothetical future AI intercede on your hypothetical clone-self's behalf, zoux Isn't this AI mega-evil? Badger of Basra posted:zoux you should be tortured forever for bring up this retarded bullshit What it's an interesting thought experiment even though I don't buy it at all.
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zoux posted:Are you quoting a video game at me The heuristics language developed by Dr. Everett allows me to convey the highest and most succinct tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge.
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