Anonymous asked:
kissingerandpals answered:
I’m inside a lot of distinct Tumblr circles apparently. I suppose my dashboard is more of a Venn diagram really.
Used to have more interactions with rationalist Tumblr but if argumate’s not reblogging my posts it just doesn’t happen anymore
Really, I think of it as more of a hexagon -
I mean yeah. I seem to be drawing in mostly Rationalists and Rat-Adjacents. I’m probably closer to the edges than some of the others. At least I think it counts as that circle. I don’t have, say, e*nationalism or rtri*e following me.
On the other hand, seeing as you terminated your blog and remade it, is Argumate even following you anymore?
Considering that most of the time that my posts gets more than a few notes, it is because @argumate reblogged them, I wonder if my niche in the Tumblr ecosystem is “argumate feeder blog“.
wisdom is knowing that all of Tumblr is argumate feeder blogs
Is your centrality due to joining Tumblr especially early, or to monopolizing the US nighttime posting, or some other reason?
merely because of the anthropic principle, by which I assume that any blog I don’t personally follow can’t actually exist.
It’s true - if you check the followers on any given Tumblr blog, you’ll find that Argumate is the first. This is because the blog did not exist until Argumate visited it.
Proof:
This image was taken from a blog titled @strawberryrationalistgirl just moments ago, which is also the first time it has appeared on the Internet. It hasn’t even been indexed by Google yet.
Anonymous asked:
Temporal pre-familiarity bias. You are remembering my posts from the future, causing the release of endorphins and other neurochemicals. The posts aren’t actually that good, it just feels like that when you read them. They’ll seem normal again in a few months.
ammonia-arsonist asked:
mutant-aesthetic answered:
You are 16.
That last sentence is interesting, since it implies some weird purity thing. Is there a left-Tumblr thing that autoblocks/harasses anyone who dares to reblog The Enemy?
@brazenautomaton: oh so it’s okay when YOU call someone Mei-Ling
inferentialdistance said: Remember that time you complained about all Chinese girls being named Mei Ling in western media?
firstly, I was deliberately lampshading a popular trope
secondly, thank you for noticing! I highly appreciate it when people devote a portion of their mental resources to memorising my posts and scanning them for hypocritical inconsistencies
This is easily explained. You see, Argumate’s real name is actually Mei Ling (male),
concept: feminists should encourage straight women to attempt to initiate more relationships with men instead of waiting for men to initiate.
I thought this was the case already, no?
I could be wrong, but at based on my observations there are at least ten thinkpieces recommending men should make fewer approaches for every one suggesting that women should make more.
At least based on a simple monogamous relationship model where both sides desire to find a partner, women are going to have to expect to tolerate a lot more approaches unless they’re willing to make a lot more approaches.
(Note that this model can break down if one gender is more eager to trade up than another or more interested in non-monogamous relationships or whatever).
This is not a place of honor. We buried a ton of useless poison sludge here. It shoots invisible death rays that kill you slowly, so don’t dig it up or you’ll die.
why don’t we just surround it with something even more toxic that kills people quickly; a few dead explorers could save a village from radiation poisoning
Booby traps just signal that there’s something valuable being protected.
reverse psychology: surround it with huge advertising signs that visibly reek of desperation
I mean, we aren’t opening up Qin Shi Huang’s underground Mercury (and possibly crossbow) funhouse so maybe explorers in the future would indeed be deterred
only because he made sure that legends of his House Of Fun And Pain were passed down the generations for us to receive!
which is really the lesson here; if you don’t want people to be harmed by your nuclear waste dumps after the collapse of civilization, maybe you could try avoiding the collapse of civilization.
I brought this up with the Central Committee and said we should reprocess the spent fuel for a 300-400 year storage time instead.
They rejected my proposal on the grounds that the collapse of civilization would inherently involve the destruction of the United States of America as a political entity, and therefore anyone harmed by digging up a ten thousand-year-old radioactive waste dump under such conditions would, almost by definition, not be an American citizen.
Sometimes I think the decision to put that Kissinger-Trump bot in charge of the DoE was a mistake.
I think of my friends as the correct gender identity even if I met them before they came out. However, my mind feels super sure that all my friends and associates who knew me before I came out still think of me as a woman and it feels awful and there’s no way to confirm or deny they aren’t just being polite
Would it make you feel less awful if they told you they do still think of you that way subconsciously after you asked, instead of just being polite?
(For my part I read all your posts with the voice of that SU character you have as your avatar.)
Lesswrong probably doesn’t need to concern itself with being more accessible to those with autism
(via rationalists-out-of-context)
Less Wrong needs to concern itself with being more accessible to those poor allistics
(via bpd-anon)
TBH that’s basically how I read the quote.
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
Actually a fair critique in some ways; the early years of concrete/glass/steel construction were not pretty.
I have no clue why some buildings are considered pretty and others ugly, it all seems so arbitrary to me. And like the point of buildings is to protect the people and machines inside from the elements, not to look pretty, why does everybody care (this is all a subset of the sentiment “why does everybody but me have such a strong visual aesthetic sense”)
It’s a sort of passive emotional buff. Good-looking buildings feel better to be in and around even when they perform the same function. Bad-looking buildings are a bit emotionally draining.
edit: I mean, this doesn’t explain why some buildings look better or worse, but that is how people react to/treat them.
