drawing skulls underneath things because this is a simple enough shape that you can manipulate it in your working memory buffer because you’re used to drawing fictional mechanical objects, not faces
yes, it’s for you
Anonymous asked:
Technically, this one arrived before the other one, so I think this is actually my first official anonhate.
I don’t have any confetti or anything up here, so you’ll just have to make do with this.
That’s not actually a real anon, by the way. It’s an Official Tumblr™ Plush Anon. The shipping is fucking ludicrous, though.
“Movies will be free after the revolution!”
Movies take the work of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people. How will we decide where to allocate our resources for the best results?
Centralized committee!
Yes! The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television smiles upon you!
You, a Neoconservative who unironically supported the Iraq War while complaining about “Liberals clamping down on our freedoms”:
Me, completely unapologetic about the existence of a progressive income tax, flirting with the reintroduction of corporal punishment as an alternative to lengthy prison sentences, plotting the introduction of mixed martial arts to high school curricula as part of national civil defense infrastructure, and planning the partial legalization of some soft drugs in order to disrupt the cartels:
garmbreak1 asked:
This technically makes you more true to Core Rationalist Principles than anyone else who has answered this ask! Very good1! You win a square watermelon for this take.
1Where “Good” is defined as “within the framework of Yudkowskyan principles” and not as The Good, or other Goods as defined by competing ideological frameworks. Offer not valid in Alaska or Hawaii. Void where prohibited.
Beings of undefined race and sex, posting in strange blogs, handing out memes, is no basis for a system of government.
Ender’s Game call-out post?
In the modern Irony Economy, if you don’t engage in at least one multi-layered self-deprecating post each day, you risk losing your blogging license.
That’s basically just secret police
of a totally ordinary sort
that then indulge in kickbacks and protection rackets
Yeah, I realized I forgot to tag that #half shtpost, as I wasn’t being entirely serious. It’s a bit of wishful thinking.
The thing is, I don’t think we adequately police the police. We need cop cops. Metacops, if you will.
The disutility of a crime can be modeled as the risk of getting caught times the penalty for getting caught. Thus, a crime with a 5% chance of getting caught, times a 20 year sentence as penalty, is then modeled with an effective disutility of a one year sentence.
However, people tend to time discount and so on, so you might not get much more out of a 40 sentence than you would out of a 20 year sentence. They’re both “a long time.” This means that you can get more oomph out of increasing the capture & conviction rate.
Regular people, despite not being police, commit crimes for some reason. Cops, who we send to increase the chances of catching them, also commit crimes. However, since they’re the ones that we typically send to stop crimes, it’s harder to deal with this, especially when prosecutors have to work with the same police to prosecute normal cases, and thus can’t afford to anger the larger police force.
So we should have a dedicated force to investigate, police, and prosecute police misconduct. “Sting operations all the way down,” so to speak. Of course, we’ll need to have someone keep an eye on them, too.
…but won’t that result in endless layers of bureaucracy?
Not necessarily.
Just as we only need some limited factor number of police for a given population size, we only need some limited number of metan-cops to police the cops.
We can model the required number of layers of metan-cops as logcop_ratio(num_cops). With a cop_ratio of 2, for instance, our total number of all metan-cops is roughly the same as our total number of non-meta cops. A more reasonable cop_ratio of 10-20 gets us a more affordable ~5-11% for a city with 10,000 cops.
The purpose of each layer is to increase the uncertainty of successfully getting away with a crime at the layer below through arrest and conviction through multiple means, including informants, patrols, sting operations, reports of suspicious activity, investigations, etc.
This would be in addition to other means, such as introducing randomness to make various forms of corruption more difficult, moving people around to prevent building up loyalty between layers, etc. We want any corrupt personnel to always have to act very carefully and in the face of a great deal of uncertainty, as anyone they are interacting with could be one of our meta-cops.
We’d have to trim some of the other laws before we enact this, though, or else be careful just what policies we’re enforcing. Some laws currently not being enforced should just not exist, and we don’t actually want them enforced.
/And if anybody pulls this off, let me know in three years.
Democratic Party Leaders Vow to Impeach Trump, Fight Trump Administration Over Unexplained Decision to Yield American City to Obscure Blogger
[Photo illustration: Obscure blogger “Mitigated Chaos” rides into city of Toledo at head of tank column, wearing “reimagined Union Army uniform”]
Blogger to head new “Metropolitan Planning Authority” as greater Toledo area declared tax-free “Special Development Administrative Zone” by Executive Order 15335
Your strengths:
* 45 minute drive to DTW, one of the best airports in the country. Yes, it’s a drive (so car ownership), but.
* There is an Amtrak station. And if you can ever convince Amtrak to run more than 1 train a day that shows up at 5AM (overnighters from DC to Chicago), you’re 2 hours from Cleveland, 4 from Chicago and Pittsburgh (evening trips), and 10-ish from DC (overnighter).
* You’re the corner of Lake Erie and every bit of economic activity out of Michigan and heading east is either rolling through you or through Canada.
Your weaknesses:
* White residents who remember why they all fled to Sylvania and their gorgeous suburban mansions in the first place, and spent 50 years getting their every bias confirmed and deepened by the evening news.
/Seriously, I get why you skipped over the racial/class aspects of this whole thing, but uh… that’s really critical. There’s two reasons why Ann Arbor works for this sort of thing, and Toledo does not.
It’s true - dealing with racial issues would require some pretty strong ideological support.
I think race/class issues could be mostly resolved, given the right conditions, but that the population largely do not believe in the necessary ideological supports required to accomplish this, or for that matter, to supply the necessary political energy for the necessary political policies.
The required measures would border on national separatist levels of energy.
On the other hand, Toledo was not chosen out of serious consideration, but for shtposting purposes due to required level of obscurity, position, etc.
On the third hand, the Great Lakes region has access to bulk long-range shipping.
SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now.
