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theunitofcaring

Anonymous asked:

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.

theunitofcaring answered:

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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.

argumate
argumate

amazing how no one is fat in the dark cyberpunk future

shedoesnotcomprehend

argumate

dark cyberpunk future, Neo-Tokyo, neon, sun never comes out, black leather, mirrored shades, jacking in to the matrix, corporations, syndicate, retro phones,

mitigatedchaos

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.

shtpost

In the Suburbs of Flatsville, Arkowa

Our field trip to the suburbs continues in our One Thousand Villages series of wildcat city planning.

Arkowa is a state in the American Midwest, where the legislature has graciously agreed to give our new Metropolitan Planning Authority control over an area of land to build a new city, off of a major highway.  According to the news this is somehow tied into a scandal involving a group of climate vigilantes holding thousands of tractors hostage using a backdoor in hacked Ukrainian tractor firmware, but the news hasn’t been very reliable lately, so such suspicions can be safely disregarded.

Here we have a suburban klick, broken into four quads of various densities.

With American development comes the American love of the automobile.  Many of our new residents are commuting to the neighboring city of Springfield for work, travelling along the highway, and there are limits to just how far we can stretch our city’s public transport infrastructure!  

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nuclearspaceheater
shlevy

@nuclearspaceheater

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?

nuclearspaceheater

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.)

mitigatedchaos

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.

Source: shlevy
the-grey-tribe
the-grey-tribe

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.

https://twitter.com/tha_rami/status/869495533655789568

mitigatedchaos

That sounds like something the outgroup would say.

mailadreapta
the-grey-tribe

Do religions really scale?

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.

mailadreapta

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.

mitigatedchaos

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.

Source: the-grey-tribe
Alright, one last one for the uh, morning. I managed to resolve the traffic dilemma for my Quads in a way that is both simple and kind of hilarious, and which ends up fitting two conditions. • Fuck through traffic. • If you’re going somewhere within...

Alright, one last one for the uh, morning.

I managed to resolve the traffic dilemma for my Quads in a way that is both simple and kind of hilarious, and which ends up fitting two conditions.

  1. Fuck through traffic.
  2. If you’re going somewhere within your Klick (kilometer development of four ‘quads’ for those who haven’t read the other posts), you go on foot, bike, or at most a golf cart, unless you’re moving furniture in a van, in which case it’s worth it to drive all the way around.

Here’s how it works.

The klick has two one-way intake roads, east/west, of four lanes each. A single lane splits off from the intake for each quad, going straight into a parking lot. The other two lanes go to a roundabout. The klick also has two one-way outflow roads, which the roundabout leads to. Each quad has one lane from its parking lot to the outflow road. Through traffic east/west will always get directed north/south, and thus rarely has a reason to enter the klick.

This is overkill for the 300 resident quad above, but for a more developed quad the throughput would be astounding. With little through traffic, each quad has two dedicated exit lanes, with a very long turning lane to queue up in. If these exit onto a six lane road, the center two lanes out of four can turn in either direction.

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