Anonymous asked:
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Anonymous asked:
Sometimes I feel like this is the True Rationalist Internet Nerd Gender.
Anonymous asked:
I see you subscribe to the Argumate School of Unicode Emoticon Abolitionism.
I can’t say I disagree. May we all work together for a world in which emoticons have been replaced with additional ancient Chinese characters, possibly oracle bone script.
Anonymous asked:
Honey, darling,
You’re missing like the remaining 11/12ths necessary to describe a full neurotype matrix. I feel cheated, here. But I guess I can’t expect people to be living in the gender world of 2052.
I’ll just take the average.
5/10 Strawberry (F)
3/10 Watermelon (A)
2/10 Cherry (M)
An interesting reading. I have been known to describe people, gender-wise, by ratios like this.
Anonymous asked:
Sometimes I’ll… hmn, how to describe, use certain twists of language or hints in order to come off one way or the other.
Someone once asked, on a post, “wait, is that a period joke?” Yes, yes it was. It was also several other jokes simultaneously. But that has a certain weight to it in peoples’ gender reading intuitions.
Anyhow,
Avatars have a powerful effect on how we read people online, and lead to us making various subconscious assumptions. Don’t worry though, I didn’t choose my avatar as a ‘gotcha’ to trip people up with.
In an environment where gender presentation is much more of a choice than it is elsewhere, it also becomes part of communication and describing one’s intent to others, just as @wirehead-wannabe‘s rat avatar gives off a certain vibe about him, and @argumate‘s rotated pyramid is as frustratingly neutral as his posts.
So the avatar, too, is part of the message of this blog, an indicator of tone and so on, in addition to visual branding to make it recognizable and differentiate it from other blogs.
I will say that the grey is a deliberate choice as no real races are grey. Yet.
rocketverliden asked:
You’re supposed to represent this as a whole number ratio of unicode fruit emoticons, and I’m really personally upset that you didn’t feel it was worth it to address me in the proper way.
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.
rocketverliden asked:
Anonymous asked:
Ugggh. Who do you think you are, Google?
Come back when you’re a multinational corporation physically embodying the threat of a societal panopticon in order to more efficiently sell Authentic™ skinny mom jeans to hipsters, loser.
[soon your askbox would be full of shitpost asks like Argumate’s and] you’d be tempted to make an ms paint collage for every single one.
This television show blog doesn’t have that kind of animation drawing budget.
But don’t worry. Most anons on this blog do not get a Full Custom™ MS Paint.JPG for their asks. It’s just the rate of images per ask that would reduce.
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