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mircea_popescu: at least it could be snake bodied and feathered and also have many hands and could die on
the cross.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-20 03:35 mircea_popescu: "Roko's basilisk is a
thought experiment
that assumes
that an otherwise benevolent future artificial intelligence (AI) would
torture
the simulated selves of
the people who did not help bring about
the AI's existence. [...]
The concept was proposed in 2010 by contributor Roko in a discussion on LessWrong. Yudkowsky deleted
the posts regarding it and banned further discussion of Roko's basilisk on LessWrong af
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 19:52 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who wrote
the above ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Anyways
the people who sucessfully substitute vapes for cigs
tend
to run at 400-500 degrees which cooks many of
the glycols
theys use
to maintain nicotine suspension into preservatives. If preserving lungs I'd rather do it with good old fashioned creosote.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: filter on real cigarettes provides opportunity for smoke
to cool pleasantly.
They didn't become
the standard for health reasons...
BingoBoingo: Yeah vapefag setups
tryhard
the
temperature
too much which is unpleasant and generates srs formaldahyde
shinohai: Nope,
the burn and
taste is part of
the reason I like it.
shinohai: Don't want
to become a vapefag
though
shinohai: Applicable
tho .... I have unsuccessfully
tried quitting several
times.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: I'm making runs at just pulling
the bandaid off and learning a lot about physiological processes nicotine involves itself in
that
they don't really
teach
the kids about in school. For example: Nicotine causes causes stored sugahs
to be released into
the blood stream which means a substantial portion of
the pain of acute nicotine withdrawal is related
to
the Beetus.
trinque: BingoBoingo: I'm working on kicking cigs
too
BingoBoingo: Good. Happy, Joyous, and well... not as free as I like but maybe I'll kick
the nicotine problem in
the not
too distant future.
trinque: it's an opportunity for him
to challenge
the negative biases within himself and become a more open person
BingoBoingo: Tell her
to call her boyfriend so he can watch her suck yo dick.
gabriel_laddel: cute girl with a "recreational mathematics" shirt on right next
to me. it's not so bad.
trinque: start habits
that make it otherwise!
trinque: or at least
the code you want
trinque: cronjob
to rsync your whole dev machine elsewhere regularly
gabriel_laddel: Generate a RescueCD
that rebuilds masamune using all
the sources on disk
gabriel_laddel: untangled
the only gnarly bit of
the masamune replication and promptly cooked my computer's hard drive
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> how do
they manage
to stay mentally 12 ?! seriously now. << By continuing
to surround
themselve exclusively with sick people.
mircea_popescu: how do
they manage
to stay mentally 12 ?! seriously now.
mircea_popescu: and accepted his offer
to hint
to a guy I like
that
this is
the case; I hit on someone at a party right in front of my primary. I haven't suffered a hiccup of drama or a
twinge of jealousy
to speak of and all evidence (including verbal confirmation) indicates
that I've been managing my primary's feelings satisfactorily
too.</bragging> Does
this sort of
thing appeal
to you? Cross your fingers and hope your brain works enoug
mircea_popescu: "Everything went according
to plan: I can now comfortably describe myself and
the primary relationship I have with MBlume as poly. <bragging>Since moving back
to
the Bay Area I've been out with four other people
too, one of whom he's also seeing; I've been in my primary's presence while he kissed one girl, and when he asked another for her phone number; I've gossiped with a secondary about other persons of romantic interest
mircea_popescu: it was a very entertaining few years, i definitely recommend
the study of "fratire"
to
the entomologist.
mircea_popescu: aww, you missed such a nice pile of anecdotes. so
this guy, on
the basis of a web forum populated by anglo dorks, and with
the help of a "strategist" whose name escapes me atm but whose badly shaped cranium i still recall, were going
to "revolutionize" and shit.
mircea_popescu: "Mike Blume, gadabout and preterist, has grown bolder and bolder against Apostolic holiness
traditions which he calls legalism. He has denied several of our ..." apparently
the other priest dudes don't
think so much of him.
mircea_popescu: "Empirically
the most ‘attractive’ man in our community including for purposes of casual sex is Mike Blume, who (I’ve asked a woman or
two) achieves
this by being extremely polite, reliable, and generating a feeling of being very safe
to be around or date (contrary
to a number of people who’d allege
that
this is beta-male behavior who I’m beginning
to suspect are just sheerly empirically wrong)." << ahahaha win. che
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "one of
the public whores (free as in beer)
that i'm sometimes pumping was working some chump and
this bothered me maybe" ?
mircea_popescu: "I once felt a small pang of jealousy when one of my girlfriends was having a very public display of affection with a non-Mike person I didn’t know quite so well. But I get upset with/jealous of public displays of affection in general, even among people I don’t know, and it’s very hard for me
to disentangle
this feeling from jealousy and it could have just been my imagination." << or otherwise, could start by defining "
mircea_popescu: "They both go way out of
their way
to make
the other happy, and although part of
this is just
that
they’re both very nice people who go out of
their way
to make everybody happy, I
think
there’s got
to be some love involved
there
too.
They are engaged, working on
the “getting married”
thing, and have every intention of having lots of children and staying
together for at least one lifetime." << california can't grow eno
mircea_popescu: if your idea of a fight is for
the submissive
to blather off,
then o my fucking god what shambling abomnation is
this!
mircea_popescu: if your idea of "a fight" is one screaming his head off and
the other begging forgiveness on knees and kowtows,
then "no fights" is a completely dead relatopnship where no instruction is
taking place ;
mircea_popescu: "I have lived with
them for seven months now and never once have I seen
them get in a fight (I know
there is way more
to being a couple
than not fighting but I’m
trying
to
think of objective numerical evidence I can report here beyond “if you know
them, you know what I mean”)." << it's a miserable fucking criteria wtf.
trinque: also wouldn't surprise me
that anyone in amerika with a functioning nervous system has a strong instinct of "this place is done for" going off
mircea_popescu: yay, me reading
trinque 's link was not entirely wasted.
mircea_popescu: anecdata being what socially passes for "scientific studies" - enough badly curated data
to lend apparent support
to whatever fashionable political claim.
trinque: asciilifeform:
the desire
to increase
the number of women
mircea_popescu: ah
there is
that. harem reproduces, just like "monogamous fambly".
trinque: and something
that probably kicks on in her when
there's wealth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not everyone
that gets invited
to be
taken for a ride is invited
to stay.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, a major part of
the appeal of prostitutes for many people is
that
they already have a pimp. contrary
to what polite society likes
to believe, men don't generally want
THAT much
to do with women.
mircea_popescu: "This is a post about applied luminosity in action: how I hacked myself
to become polyamorous over (admittedly weak) natural monogamous inclinations. "
trinque: heh yeah, it can go
that way
too
mircea_popescu: harem heals ; and what
that means if it's dead rather
than alive ... god only help you.
mircea_popescu: he who steps outside of
their braindead protection will encounter great power ; which, without control, will ruin
their life ; in such catastrophically major ways as
to defy plain description.
mircea_popescu: ok, let's
try a general statement.
the
trite rules of common sensical behaviour exist principally not because
they're good or useful or productive ; but because
they are banal, and in being banal are safe.
mircea_popescu: you ever read bitter moon, say ? or i guess saw
the movie, which was
terrible, but i suppose still carries ?
mircea_popescu: this is precisely how you end up with whores in
the matress.
mircea_popescu: if it isn't... hm. you saying basically
they only visit with performance gas mask on ?
mircea_popescu: much like
the "bitcoin corrupts" argument - harem heals. if you actually get one, you can't be "yourself".