mitigatedchaos says-
Star Trek style: just keep expanding the definition of “human” to include all aliens with rubber foreheads
this is blatant crystalline entity erasure,
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Anonymous asked:
You should do AUSJ. It's the sort of thing you'd be good at.
nuclearspaceheater answered:
This is right up there with “Scott Alexander keeps recommending me as a good right-wing writer“ in terms of confusion as to what in my post history could possibly have prompted such a reaction.
By the criteria that you are right-wing, I suppose I also count as right-wing.
Anonymous asked:
You should do AUSJ. It's the sort of thing you'd be good at.
nuclearspaceheater answered:
This is right up there with “Scott Alexander keeps recommending me as a good right-wing writer“ in terms of confusion as to what in my post history could possibly have prompted such a reaction.
By the criteria that you are right-wing, I suppose I also count as right-wing.
I mean you do read as right wing to me, but that’s probably because I have a skewed idea of where the center is
I don’t know how you’d ever get that idea, Wirehead-kun. I-it’s not like I want to take over the world or anything! B-baka!
A Tumblr user has set their post queue to post once a day. However, they add an average of 1.8 new posts to the queue each day. There are currently 74 posts in the queue. A queue can hold a maximum of 300 posts.
A. How many days will it take the queue to reach its maximum capacity?
B. If the user sets the post rate to two posts per day, how many days will it take for the queue to be emptied?
C. Using universal laws, compute the mind state of a typical Tumblr user matching this statistical description within +/-10% from first principles, and create a sample distribution and tag-based machine-learning algorithm to estimate the percentage of shtposts in a representative post queue. Engrave your answer as a binary representation with associated decoding algorithm on a stone tablet.
The Dream Daddy team are probably thinking “fuck, this would’ve been so much simpler if we just didn’t include a trans character”
And that’s what happens when you constantly politicise and over-analyse trans characters, you make a political minefield around the topic that ultimately makes it safer for creators to exclude trans characters than risk implementing them in a way that results in unpredictable controversy and death threats.
Same goes for all of the types of characters who lack “representation”. Stop politicising their existence and more creative types will be comfortable including them.
lol i bet this is a exhilarating read
Honestly, these sorts tend to overestimate the degree to which marketers are just being desperate.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s plan to turn Ellis Island into “casual, inspired living, minus the usual big-city clamour.” July 30, 1961.
With businesses as well as employers as well as landowners, large entities are better at ruthlessly maximising profit and also are better at responding to regulations. Whereas small entities often go for something other than maximising profit, and if it’s “being decent”, great, but then for some reason sometimes it’s “being pointlessly petty and cruel”. So you get a situation where large entities are often worse on average in very specific ways, but the very very worst and most unfathomable are the small ones.
For it is said that Bernie never truly died, but only lies sleeping in a cave somewhere in Vermont, with Ben on his left and Jerry on his right, and resting alongside him a great army of campaign microdonors; and that in America’s hour of greatest need he will awake and come thundering down from the Green Mountains to lead a successful presidential campaign. I do not know of its truth myself, but so it is spoken.
Anonymous asked:
MIRI and the Rationalists worked hard to guard Humanity from the threat of Unfriendly AI. Nobody thought to expect the Scrupulosity Bomb - a first-of-its-kind engineered supervirus designed to modify humans with the genetic vulnerability to scrupulosity - would be deployed first, rapidly spreading first from North America and then to the world. As the social structures of the old world melted away, a new world order of "hyperpoliteness" emerged. It turned out we were the space elves all along.
silver-and-ivory answered:
among historians, it’s still debated whether the Scupulosity Bomb was justified as part of an effort to stop the incessant rationalist whinging about dust specks, freedom of speech, and, most damningly, Harry Potter,
One of the things I think about a lot is imagine asking an individual politician what value they provide to society: they can list work they’ve done, initiatives they’ve sponsored, speeches they’ve given, constituent interests they’ve represented, and so on.
Now imagine asking an entire party what value they provide to society: they can do something similar and talk about the good stuff they’ve done and the bad stuff from those other guys they’ve opposed.
Now imagine asking the entire representative body what value they provide to society and suddenly it gets much trickier, because they are inherently working at cross purposes to each other and most of their “work” is simply inhibition.
“As a group we’ve had endless debate, passed a bill, wrangled for a while, repealed the bill, wrangled a little more, then passed a similar but worse bill.”
There really isn’t any way to justify the existence of representative bodies as a group without saying look we’ve had five thousand years of power struggles that involved stabbings and this is a small step up from that, count your blessings.