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The Vosgian Beast posted:http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-tragedy-of-light/ Christ, I was going to post a link to this self-assuredly pseud-intellectual piece of poo poo blog, but you beat me to it. http://thefutureprimaeval.net/we-support-diversity-and-equality/ Warg Franklin (lol) posted:As thinkers, most of us got our start in a community dedicated to the art of human rationality. There we crystallized our appreciation for reason, evidence, and awareness of one's own capabilities and limitations as a human thinker. We came to believe that there are better ways to think, and began to strive to train ourselves in them. We've since moved beyond that foundation, throwing out and replacing pieces of the philosophy as they were found faulty, placing a greater emphasis on political ideology and well-tuned intuitive judgement over feigned neutrality and formal methods. Still, the core commitment to sanity guides us. This poo poo's pretty bad, but it's predictably so if you know Jim's blog (who Wesley and Anissimov think is the successor to Moldbug) or any of the other lovely NRx blogs.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-tragedy-of-light/ Hey, it wasn't until I read the manga of Death Note that I understood why anyone would ever think the bit of Roko's basilisk that goes "you simulate him simulating you simulating him" would even make sense as an idea. Because that's precisely what Light and L do, in an implausible-but-cool bit of the story. But I just enjoyed the book as a cool story, which is why I'm obviously from a low-IQ thede. Also, reading it meant I finally got most the jokes in this. Note also that "The Tragedy of Light" is the name of a play Draco goes to in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, because of course Yudkowsky was putting in anime left, right and centre.
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Merdifex posted:Christ, I was going to post a link to this self-assuredly pseud-intellectual piece of poo poo blog, but you beat me to it. Yeah, yeah you bravely stand forward and face the truth. I mean, I can't imagine a truth scarier than "I am naturally meant to be a god-king with a harem of brides due entirely to being born white and testing well on IQ tests". I mean, I would cry in terror if I found that out. I once poo poo myself in fear when I thought I won the lottery
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Yeah, yeah you bravely stand forward and face the truth. It's amusing to think that apparently the only true outcome of rationalism to these people is you becoming a fascist and an unapologetic bigot.
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Merdifex posted:It's amusing to think that apparently the only true outcome of rationalism to these people is you becoming a fascist and an unapologetic bigot. It's not being a fascist! It's being a Hard Man making the Hard Choices other people are just afraid to make, like their favorite edgy anime/videogame character.
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So is that Warg dude saying that by removing actual rational processes in favor of gnosis ("well honed intuition") and various other established facts which can't be questioned as core ideological tenets, he became more and more horribly right wing? Interesting.
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If anybody wants a good starting point for a foray into the depths of the Twitter reactionary abyss, the flood of responses to this tweet featuring a photo of Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian together may be optimal. https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/647113416956620800
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Heresiarch posted:If anybody wants a good starting point for a foray into the depths of the Twitter reactionary abyss, the flood of responses to this tweet featuring a photo of Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian together may be optimal. I heard the anger before I even opened the link.
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Race Realists posted:the best part about the recent south park jenner episode is seeing idiot GGers delude themselves into thinking matt and trey are on their side i wasnt joking. They LITERALLY think this
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Monocled Falcon posted:Has captain america ever been in a good video game? Marvel vs Capcom 2?
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Monocled Falcon posted:Has captain america ever been in a good video game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mTySjAIGL0
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Avengers arcade game. Though why you'd play him when you could be Vision I'm less clear on. **edit^^^This is why phone posting is the worst.
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Night10194 posted:Goddamn, AC even had seasteaders, didn't it? With the weirdo norwegian pirate guy. No, there wasn't any pretense of building a utopia, they went straight toward the setting things on fire (despite the water and nitrogen atmosphere). There was the democrat socialism faction too, and a couple that were just "like original faction x, but more so"
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Race Realists posted:i wasnt joking. They LITERALLY think this "Keep punching down, we've almost won!" What did South Park do, anyway? I assume it was some kind of transphobic joke at Jenner's expense?
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Heresiarch posted:"Keep punching down, we've almost won!"
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Ronwayne posted:No, there wasn't any pretense of building a utopia, they went straight toward the setting things on fire (despite the water and nitrogen atmosphere). I think the atmosphere was just much higher in nitrogen, lower in carbon dioxide, maybe higher pressure. I'll check the appendix.
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"The atmosphere consists of 90.9% Nitrogen, 8.5% Oxygen and .01% Carbon Dioxide. The low oxygen content results in fewer forest fires, a higher proportion of anoxic environments - encouraging a large anaerobic ecosystem reducing nitrates to break down organic matter - and a plant ecosystem dominated by the need to conserve carbon." "Planet's larger size and gravity result in a significantly higher sea level pressure than Earth's: 1.74 atmospheres. This brings the partial pressure of Oxygen up to acceptable levels, but the high overall pressure combined with such a large quantity of Nitrogen produces deadly Nitrogen narcosis in unprotected humans."
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Although you'd need at least twice that much nitrogen to cause narcosis.
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The Lone Badger posted:Although you'd need at least twice that much nitrogen to cause narcosis. There's probably bigger problems if the atmosphere is 180% nitrogen
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Monocled Falcon posted:Has captain america ever been in a good video game? The Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games were a little rough around the edges, but I liked them.
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Race Realists posted:i wasnt joking. They LITERALLY think this Is that one of the wonder twins in the last panel?
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 Heresiarch posted:If anybody wants a good starting point for a foray into the depths of the Twitter reactionary abyss, the flood of responses to this tweet featuring a photo of Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian together may be optimal. http://webtv.un.org/search/launch-of-the-broadband-working-group-on-gender-report/4506718502001 Also don't forget the reactions to the Google Ideas tweets https://twitter.com/googleideas/status/646783722570682369  Which prompted this response https://twitter.com/googleideas/status/646795257057669124  Also these responses too https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/647048037123125248 Monocled Falcon posted:Has captain america ever been in a good video game? Darth Walrus posted:The Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games were a little rough around the edges, but I liked them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCcTapOF4E&t=77s Assepoester has a new favorite as of 14:05 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Race Realists posted:the best part about the recent south park jenner episode is seeing idiot GGers delude themselves into thinking matt and trey are on their side I don't know man, I would be surprised if they weren't (haven't seen the ep)
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Poe's Law, I know, but that one looked like a troll to me.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure he's trolling. He's basically doing the "I agree with what you're saying, but I don't think it goes far enough, so I think we should do this other even more extreme and logically consistent thing that would gently caress all of you over" thing.
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Kit Walker posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure he's trolling. He's basically doing the "I agree with what you're saying, but I don't think it goes far enough, so I think we should do this other even more extreme and logically consistent thing that would gently caress all of you over" thing. Based on personal experience, trying to go reductio ad absurdum on these kinds of people will result in a portion of them actually agreeing with you.
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The responses to these panels (that are not just outright threats) fall into two categories: the ones saying "online harassment isn't real, just turn off your computer", and the ones saying "these women are the ones doing the actual harassment". The people making these contradictory responses are for some strange reason not arguing with each other. So strange.
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Heresiarch posted:The people making these contradictory responses are for some strange reason not arguing with each other. So strange.
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Kit Walker posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure he's trolling. He's basically doing the "I agree with what you're saying, but I don't think it goes far enough, so I think we should do this other even more extreme and logically consistent thing that would gently caress all of you over" thing. Also, he was getting a bit OTT about those glorious white women. Actual white supremacists don't do that much, AFAIK - 'white woman' is already one of the highest compliments they can pay, so much else would be redundant.
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From the HPMOR thread: Cracked covers Roko's basilisk! The article isn't very good and their explanation is wrong in a lot of places (and they don't link RationalWiki, boo hiss), but it does the important job: causes pain to singularitarians. Particularly by causing an uncontrollable urge to hit the comment section starting "Well actually ..."
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http://thefutureprimaeval.net/fear-of-a-black-planet/ just being really, really open about it at this point
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The Vosgian Beast posted:http://thefutureprimaeval.net/fear-of-a-black-planet/ just being really, really open about it at this point The promise at the end is of these being a superior species. It's not clear Nyan is reading what he's writing.
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I'm just going to point out this occupies a proud space on Scott's blogroll the next time he whines about feminists being intolerant
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divabot posted:The promise at the end is of these being a superior species. It's not clear Nyan is reading what he's writing. Is he one of those people who thinks that neanderthals were the superior species of human?
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Merdifex posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/nydwracu/status/647475713864560640 What the gently caress is he even talking about
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The Vosgian Beast posted:What the gently caress is he even talking about A large percentage of nerds think criticism means you want to destroy the thing you're criticizing.
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