Women who are egalitarian in the workplace and towards friends
might still have very traditional expectations when it comes to sex and
dating.
When it comes to actually having sex and relationships that include two people having sex with each other exclusively, sex differences and gender roles are more salient than in any other context.
Women who have traditional expectations from men they’re dating usually don’t communicate these expectations to men they’re not dating.
Is any of this controversial?
Hypothesis: any statement featuring the word “gender” is controversial, including this one.
Counterexample to hypothesis: “’Gender’ is a word in the English language.”
More seriously: What about the lesbians? :D
About the lesbians: I have no clue. I have never been one, or dated one. I’m a man. (full disclosure: Previous blog persona of a male robot was a joke. Am actually flesh and blood guy.)
That said: I have talked to lesbians and bi women about this IRL.
Interestingly, replacing all schooling with Khan Academy has one big problem in common with replacing a city with an agglomeration of villages:
You take away common ground, a schelling point to meet. No more class discussion. No more convenient shopping streets. No more pub crawls. No more cultural/literary touchstones. @mitigatedchaos
But all the pubs and shops are on the outside of the village walls, on the more heavily-trafficked streets, and thus publicly accessible, because businesses should be publicly accessible in order to get enough customers.
Even the civic center is on the outside edge so that you can have dudes over for your board gaming group or knitting club if there aren’t enough knitters in your village.
If I ever meet @mitigatedchaos in the year 1995, I’ll buy her a beer.
Past-her might probably be more thankful for a dire warning about the horrors of Shakira Law and no-go zones overtaking Europe. Eh? Eh? Wouldn’t you be, @mitigatedchaos?
Your mind jumps to this, and not 9/11?
Either Osama Bin Laden was breathtakingly stupid or delusional, or his goal wasn’t to just get the West to quit interfering in the Middle East.
9/11 is what creates the political capital necessary for George Bush to launch his Iraq War, even though it isn’t tied to it, killing thousands of Americans and over a hundred thousand Iraqis. It cost two trillion dollars, the entire lifetime economic output - total, not profit - of over five hundred thousand people, and is likely to cost an additional $4 trillion over time. This is in addition to the two trillion dollar cost of the 9/11 attack itself and its effect on the economy and the American psyche.
Before that, Islam was just considered a Weird Foreign Religion.
However, what happened at Rotherham required the Left to jump to the defense of a designated politically-favored group when it was not justified. A lot of the Left’s sudden fascination with Islam is due to the right’s opposition to it - no 9/11 means there’s less right-wing opposition, which means there’s less left-wing counter-opposition in favor of a religion that is worse on most axes the Left says they care about than the fundamentalist Christianity they happily opposed before.
Which means “holy sht we need to do something about this systematic child sexual abuse” doesn’t get met with “SHUT UP YOU EVIL RACISTS!”
And with the other pathways in this timeline, perhaps Libya doesn’t get destabilized, or Syria doesn’t get destabilized, so there is no migration crisis.
More US military power conserved means more leverage against China and the ability to topple North Korea before the Kims get nuclear missiles. There’s a reasonably high probability that Saddam’s regime doesn’t collapse and so there’s no DAESH.
The benefits just keep going and going.
You don’t seem to understand me as well as you think you do.
How are you guys liking this sudden series of polygon-based urban planning posts?
What’s the purpose of all this Blendering? Are you just noodling around, or are you offering Serious Solutions to Today’s Problems?
I’m not dedicated enough in research to count as a Serious Person, but on the other hand a lot of Serious People have been very wrong lately.
The One Thousand Villages series is part of the general direction of this blog to search for overlooked or uninvented paths for society through an intuitive synthesis across multiple fields. (Also it has some nice art to look at which I’ll be adding to my portfolio.) The intent is that eventually some of these ideas will potentially be refined and studied more closely, possibly by others, helping society to escape a local maximum. This post on a reorganization of how schools work is similar.
In both cases, the small details are less important than overall ideas that break from the consensus. It’s less about the intricate road layout than the idea of building sub-communities within cities, with friction of movement, as a means of overcoming some of the disadvantages of cities. The recent post is more about spreading the idea of guided busways as a concept.
“Okay,” you might say, “but I studied in that field and what you proposed doesn’t work for reason X.”
And that would be a totally valid critique, so if you’re holding back of saying “Actually, that one-way flow through the kilometer was tried in a newtown in Britain and failed,” or something, you can go ahead with it.
Admittedly, it’s also for entertainment, too. I’m on Tumblr as opposed to writing my own SSC equivalent for a reason, I admit.
How are you guys liking this sudden series of polygon-based urban planning posts?
wonder if we could rig up an actual simulation of this stuff
I have no doubt that I could, but I can’t justify doing so without funding. You know how it is.
fund it via KickStarter on the basis that it’s developing levels for an fps-
actually that’s needless deception, the indie games market has demonstrated that people are more than willing to spend on incredibly niche geeky shit like simulating perfect virtual cities
Well, let’s see. To justify the project as a game, I’d need about 2,000 people to pay about $10, or about 1,000 people to pay about $20.
So let’s think about what that might look like.
As you may know, Skyrim compresses distance in a symbolic way by somewhere between a factor of 10 and 100. It’s how you can walk ten meters, kill a pack of wolves, then walk another ten meters and kill another pack of wolves. What often isn’t discussed is that most citybuilders do this as well, which is why they require such laughably overbuilt transit infrastructure. Cities: Skylines gives you about 36km2 to play with. Singapore is about 720km. Manhattan is about 59 kilometers.
So presumably, this simulation game would work to aggressively limit computation so that it can do a lot more computation. It would rely on a grid of 5m squares instead of allowing as much freedom in road-building. Agents would all be represented in the sim, and their paths would be stored, but visual traffic would be represented as a statistical aggregate and not following individual cars from place of employment. The visual style would be fairly simple to conserve on cycles - even people would be represented with 2m tall boxes (children with shorter boxes, obviously). Traffic paths would primarily be updated opportunistically rather than continuously.
In exchange, each resident in the city would be simulated, and a wide array of more complicated municipal policies would be available, including state ownership of housing developments, the various components needed to try the One Thousand Villages, etc. There would also be “markets” that bid somehow on jobs or properties, to decide what to do with a mixed-use zone for instance. Just managing the fine details would end up requiring some minor automation and I bet there would be a “zone for subdivision” fill tool that caused a private property developer agent to insert a dynamically-generated slice of suburbia.
Possible elements could also include political costs/capital needed to push through bulldozing houses to install new light rail, disruptions from the global economy, etc. Another element could be the cultures thing @lockrum brought up, but rather than real ethnicities (which could make people upset, and also are the largest source of real ethnic tension), they’d be represented as high school cliques or various subcultures (jocks, otakus, hipsters) and you could forcefully integrate them Lee Kwan Yew style, or they might self-segregate automatically, or they might be atomized by the distribution of jobs and housing prices. (They would probably be depicted as different-coloured two meter rectangles instead of grey ones.)
But there’s definitely a strain of revolutionary that wants a more explicitly fascist or feudal adversary, not this wishy washy liberal centrism rubbish.
It takes a villain to create a superhero.
This is why Leftists should support my rise to power in order to feel revolutionary zeal and increase their social status through righteous indignation. It’s true, I may not be a feudalist or a fascist, but they’ll get to call me that a lot which gets the same social points, right? And what I have in mind is less wishy-washy than the current dominant paradigm…
Oddly enough, the avatar already has a name, I just haven’t mentioned it on Tumblr yet - the Union Girl. (Union Girl has another name, but that will be revealed in due time.)
This is reflective of the persona I present in futurist shitposting here on Tumblr, that of someone who grew up in the North American Union prior to its integration into the Earth Federation. The choice of clothing is a callback to the United States of America, the predecessor of the NAU, at that point having already been dissolved several decades ago, and to the anti-nationalist EF, is used as a symbol by those who support the National Separationists. Those wearing symbols of the old Union aren’t against state intervention per se, and aren’t in favor of the ancient Confederacy’s war for racial supremacy (at least according to Confederate politicians), but they still believe in nations and states. Thus, Union Girl is either the [North American Union] Girl or the [Union Army/Federal] Girl.
As a paramilitary cyborg from the future intent on reviving a nation that doesn’t currently exist, the Union Girl is technically a supervillain.
The name of this blog also has multiple meanings.
Mitigated [Chaos] - I am chaotic, it is mitigated on this blog. [Mitigated] Chaos - Plans to mitigate chaos. [Mitigated Chaos] - A blend of chaos and order, a mitigated chaos. Mitigated Chaos - .The plans on this blog are in fact partly chaotic.
If you’re arguing about whether the U.S. should weaken protections of freedom of speech, I’m likely to find you a lot more persuasive if you examine other Western nations with weaker free speech protections (i.e. most of them) and the observable consequences of that, than if you expound on the most horrifying dystopia that you can imagine resulting from the opposing side.
Yeah. As someone who’s innately a free speech absolutist, it’s hard to admit that moderate limits on speech aren’t necessarily very onerous and can be maintained for decades (at least) without spiraling into anything much worse, but it’s pretty obviously true. Doesn’t mean the restrictions pass a cost-benefit test,
but it’s pretty obviously true.
I do actually think that European and Canadians restrictions on speech are already onerous, and American 1st amendment jurisprudence is the one major thing that is genuinely politically superior about the US compared to those countries. I keep seeing stories about the cops being called on people for hate speech tweets in the UK that would be unambiguously constitutionally protected in the US, and thinking I’m glad my servers are here and not there.
If I lived in one of those counties I would consider it politically important to move local law more towards the US model, or barring that preventing effective enforcement of censorship law; since I live in the US, I consider it politically important to prevent the state of 1st amendment law from moving even a little bit in the direction of Europe and Canada (which I agree are not dystopias).
the first rule of Internet argument is to make sure your profile description isn’t so embarrassing that it can immediately be used against you.
corollary: your detractors will always find something “embarrassing” about you to use against you so why bother
I made fun of knowyournewmeme and they went to my blog, couldn’t find anything, went to the link for my youtube, couldn’t find anything, THEN went to my twitter from there and saw me retweeting a jontron meme and screenapped that to try to 1-up me
Sounds about right
Already had someone quote my blog description as some kind of “shutdown”, but the joke was on them since it only revealed how clueless they are.
Thank you for the advice, it's really helpful. When you said I should just ask myself if I want to date girls, and if I want them to date me instead, it gave me a weird "huh, I didn't think of it that way before" which sounds silly, but I didn't. I always thought I had to prove I'm gay, or otherwise someone will expose me as a fake, but no. I'm gay. It feels nice saying it.
<3
Like I said, really common! I don’t know why ‘am I gay/bi’ feels like a harder question than ‘do I want to date girls/ do I want girls to want to date me’ but you’re not at all alone in feeling that way or in finding it a helpful reframing. You’re gay! Go be a very happy gay.
Is there a bot that randomly archives Tumblr blogs? Seemingly random posts and tags on my blog are getting archived and I can’t find out who’s doing it or why. I’d like to know if this is a preliminary to a larger-scale social media attack.
amazing how no one is fat in the dark cyberpunk future
dark cyberpunk future, Neo-Tokyo, neon, sun never comes out, black leather, mirrored shades, jacking in to the matrix, corporations, syndicate, retro phones,
No no no you’re missing the plan here.
The megacorporations license you a gene mod which keeps you skinny so you can fit the image their advertising sells, and it boosts your metabolism so that you must eat more food to survive, helping to sell you large amounts of highly-branded junk food while you take on more and more debt.
In the cyberpunk future, the Coca-Cola™ flowing through your veins is the only thing keeping you alive.
Here’s one: orthogonality thesis. People who disagree with you are not just dumber versions of yourself, and making them smarter without addressing their hostile values just gives those values more effective people to attack you with.
Setting aside concerns about the orthogonality thesis as applied to artificial agents, do you really think it’s reasonable to bring it to bear when the agents in question are all still basically structured by the same evolutionary and cultural pressures and the intelligence in question is nowhere near the “you can achieve any goal you could possibly pursue” threshold?
I think extant neurotypes and values provide enough examples of goal-diversity that humanity itself is, to me, the most persuasive argument in favor of the orthogonality thesis. (Though, it’s negation was never persuasive to me to begin with.)
Considering how heavily loaded crime/etc are towards low IQ, I think there’s a significant gain to be made from using genetic engineering to bring up the low end.
Reinforced Straw Man: Sam Harris complained about being misquoted by a friend, to which of his. The friend had argued against the sentiment expressed in the misquote. He defended himself: “My argument still stands, because this is the kind of thing a Sam Harris would say.“
Woosh/Meme Citogenesis: People retweeted satire on twitter. Others only saw the tweet and comment “I can’t believe it’s not The Onion!“ It was the Borowitz Report. Somebody wrote a blog post about the tweet. Others tweeted about the blog post. Somebody wrote a listicle embedding these tweets for Buzzfeed. Somebody else wrote a long article de-bunking the original tweet. Instead of de-bunking a rumour, it repeated and cemented a meme. It directed people to the tweet.
Argument from Paranoia Display: People were scared because of a hate crime. They asked the police to do more. Turns out that hate crime didn’t happen. They asked the police to do more anyway, because their fear was still there. (Coined by @ilzolende)
These frequently occur together in this pattern: Somebody makes a joke about the outgroup. Somebody else who is not in on the joke thinks it’s real. People say something should be done about the outgroup. Outgroup complains. Ingroup counters that outgroup could have said that. Ingroup is scared. Ingroup blames outgroup for being scared. Ingroup is now more scared than before. Something must be done.
If you look into a mirror at night and say “bernie sanders and gamergate were both russian projects to assault american democracy from both sides” three times you become verified on twitter
A lot of talk about the social benefits of Mormonism, Orthodox Judaism and Catholicism talks about the effects of the religion on local communities.
The social “benefit“ of hellfire as a deterrent against crime, in addition to secular punishments like jail or fines should persist on a national level.
Positive effects of Mormon communities extent to their non-Mormon neighbours.
It’s really unclear to me if a belief in the supernatural is necessary to create these benefits, or if the benefits of the beliefs vanish if you’re the only one with them, or if they vanish as a religion becomes the majority in a country.
Religion has one hell of a Simpson’s paradox. The wealthiest nations are also some of the least religious, and poor nations tend to be more religious. But within nations, religion correlates positively with income.
I do not understand this, and I wish I did.
Perhaps they are in some sense less religious, since it is the social expectation that *everyone* be religious in those communities? Whereas in more liberal countries it isn’t just a matter of how religion changes people, but of who comes to religion.
god it’s way past time we dissolved Western Australia
either get rid of all the states entirely and give more authority to local councils, or get rid of the federal government and let states print their own currencies, but the current split between state and federal is incredibly irritating.
That’s the part of the world @mitigatedchaos can be in charge of. It’s mostly uninhabitable, so who cares if it’s fucked up?
I know, you’re probably thinking this is a safe idea. “Let’s exile that lunatic to the vast desert of Western Australia. No matter how many bizarre plans they have, the collateral damage cannot possibly escape to the rest of the developed world.”
And of course, this seems perfectly reasonable. The diagonal of Western Australia is literally over two thousand kilometers in length.
It’s just over two point six million square kilometers in size. Even the construction of a Special Economic Zone kept wet by a nuclear-powered desalination plant would be dwarfed by four orders of magnitude by the shear scale of Western Australia.
But did you realize it’s possible to terraform the Outback with existing technology?
Who would fund such a thing? Well, multiple nations are looking to meet their climate commitments, and the newly-formed state of Technocratic Western Australia would be in a position to supply. A new city would need to be built to accommodate the infrastructure necessary to oversee this enormous project, along with a series of smaller and more temporary towns, allowing a great degree of flexibility in urban planning.
The scale of the project would ensure funding for the new regime for several decades, while power was consolidated and a new culture was forged across multiple immigrant groups brought in to provide the labor for the project. A tiered citizenship system, including education and service to advance up the hierarchy, with special status reserved for national heroes and more voice available in the National Delegation for loyalists, would place long-term political power in the hands of those committed to the new Western Australia.
As the trees spread across the continent, new development opportunities and industries would open up as the temperatures and local climates changed, paving the way for a nation of twenty million by the mid century.
The only thing preventing this future is that I am not in charge of Western Australia.
Cyberpunk Author:
In this dystopian future, people are willing replace their living body parts with machines, sacrificing their HUMANITY for the power granted by TECHNOLOGY. When we can no longer tell where man ends and machine begins, have we not truly lost-
Me:
Wait, so people can use cybernetics technology to change their bodies according to their wishes, compensating for disabilities or reshaping their forms to better fit their identity?
Cyberpunk Author:
Yes, but can we really afford to abandon our natural-
What software are you using to create these renders?
Just Blender for the 3D elements, my dear Anon, with ultra-simple textures down in Photoshop. I was under the impression that most 3D software packages could create renders of this kind?
I like the thing I've heard the British do where the choice of celsius vs. fahrenheit for describing weather is a function of "how impressive does this number sound"
I HATE everything the British do. The sun never sets, more like the empire that never stops eating SHIT
tbh, if I ever see a nationalist blog on Tumblr, my immediate assumption (following the “politics is a mask for your personal problems” rule of thumb) is that they most likely have no sense of order in their own lives and that they have no actual heritage or history to be proud of so they externalize it all into some bullshit about traditionalist Europa or whatever just to have something to be proud of regardless of the fact that whatever they are holding onto is just a fictional version of what is just as degenerate in real life as the things they are running away from
All nations are simultaneously both fictional and real, like money.
The right’s embarrassing, pointless war against pornography is one of the reasons I desperately hope that the new right will phase out religion almost entirely
the battle against porn isn’t just stupid in that it’s entirely unwinnable, but it accomplishes nothing at all. A society without porn is no different than a society with porn.
I think pornography will be considered to be the alcohol of the 21st century.
Some people can drink it in moderation, but others are alcoholics. It isn’t required for health, but moderate consumption doesn’t harm health much. It can interfere with reasoning. There are ethics issues around its creation.
TBH burning political capital on fighting porn is significantly less dumb than burning political capital on fighting the gays.
Note that I’m not in favor of banning alcohol, but I do like the European idea of introducing it gradually.
I just got a notification reminding me I haven’t posted in a week.
The week before that, I got a notification telling me “you have shared x amount of posts this week, your friends are responding well” and it showed me all the people who liked the posts I shared, seemingly trying to encourage me to share more
I’m kinda reminded of Alan Watt’s thesis that social engineering is going to be moving in a direction more like video games
I saw this app on the app store the other day which is like a daily planner, but it’s in the form of an RPG stats system lol. After every accomplishment, you receive these useless experience points, and after certain amounts of accomplishments being fulfilled you “level up”
And the sad thing is that this is actually a very strong motivator. When people are so alienated from their life around them, it can be very compelling to find signals of progress outside of the material world and inside these little digital fema camps we all live inside
I don’t know, the idea of video game like motivators being used to socially engineer society probably sounds crazy at first, but I know I can’t be the only one getting these notifications from Facebook
Social media was always a game, whether it’s upvotes on Reddit or likes on Facebook, it’s all about using points to represent social approval.
But consider also, that posts arrive at random times, they contain messages that you probably won’t fully guess, they’re often short and provide that little hit of dopamine that way. Even a non-gamified social media website has game-like characteristics.
white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:
you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.
unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.
While I fundamentally agree, I feel like this reasoning is what turned my brother into a huge racist so I’m not sure if it’s worth it
The OP post is a mind trap, equivalent to religious sin. The entire purpose is to burden you with a debt that can never be repaid, so they can rope you into their ideology and never let you leave.
Infinite debts are not meant to be repaid.
Still worth it reblogging for that reply by bizzarrodf
I do agree. I just wanted to be a bit more explicit about the infinite debt bizzarodf’s brother either decided to invoke on others or embrace as identity. I still see this stuff from Left/Libs in the US, just one level obscured. This kind of thinking is an exploitable vulnerability.
white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:
you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.
unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.
While I fundamentally agree, I feel like this reasoning is what turned my brother into a huge racist so I’m not sure if it’s worth it
The OP post is a mind trap, equivalent to religious sin. The entire purpose is to burden you with a debt that can never be repaid, so they can rope you into their ideology and never let you leave.
They spend the 3rd most in the nation per student and can’t produce a quality student.
MONEY IS NOT WHAT MAKES SCHOOLS GOOD.
It’s family values and communities. Things the left has been trying to destroy for decades.
I completely agree, they would have been good at math if they’d hated gay people more, you make sense.
Actually, Community and Family don’t require hating gay people (if you aren’t a member of [SUBSET OF RELIGIONS]). It is this blog’s belief that stable and beneficial families can be the new cultural norm without stomping all over the LGBTs.
“community and family are important aspects of a child’s development and can be correlated with success in school more often than not, therefore we know already that there are things we can do to improve school achievement without necessarily pouring money into an already failed and broken system”
“Yeah, sure, we need to hate gay people more, that will fix things”
Fuck, I’m so tired of shibboleths and dog whistles predetermining the outcome of any political discussion. How jaded do you even have to be to interpret “family and community” as anti-LGBT?
Truly, the religious right’s long term use of “family” and “community” as dogwhistles for anti-LGBT have damaged this country. Ranma here is foreign, but many in the United States have developed similar responses on those keywords.
The irony is that gay marriage is would be better from this perspective, since it could be used for increased stable family formation and create more potential homes for adopted or foster children. Also while it normalizes gay behavior (which makes the cons upset because religion) it also normalizes gay behavior (which is what makes it useful) as part of the life script, which should reduce promiscuity (and high levels of promiscuity generally aren’t good for people) and encourage integration with the national culture instead of counter-culture waging culture war.
