“We propose to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005.”
(from here)
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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.
honestly I’d really appreciate it if people who dislike transhumanism point me in the direction of why
I don’t know if I’d say I ‘dislike’ transhumanism so much as it’s important to keep the general arc of science and medicine in mind.
“Scientists installed robot wings in my back and now I can fly” is awesome. “Scientists installed first-generation robot wings in my back and then I was in unbearable pain because all of my spinal discs prolapsed” is not.
Which is related to my other thought, which is that we just aren’t very good at predicting what life would be like under very different circumstances. On a certain level transhumanism isn’t that different from people saying that we’d have flying cars and robot maids by the year 2000.
yes, although this seems like just avoiding over optimism, even if you think it’s the right direction overall.
Do not underestimate the cyborg equivalent of furries who WOULD endure the lmao prolapsed spine phase of transhumanism
These brave heroes will help bring mankind closer to perfection, and/or test the safety of the secondary backup heart implant before I get it. Truly, our hats go off for these brave Cyberfurs™.
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A typical day on Rationalist Tumblr.
Pictured: Tumblr user @argumate and an unknown species of flying creature that KEEPS DYING REPEATEDLY. SERIOUSLY WOULD SOMEONE AT LEAST THINK ABOUT PROTECTING THE HEALER FOR ONC-
blue-rondo said: This anon thinks that Marxist leftists aren’t also subverted by the CIA lol. Wait til these people discover who funded and backed Marx to begin with.
please don’t tell me the Soviet Union was a CIA plot to conquer Europe
For a short while, I and a few friends of mine joked that Communism was a Western plot to destroy Asia.
[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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mitigatedchaos, resident queer separatist.
You say this as a shitpost, but if we project my views into the past while keeping them semi-coherent, I would have actually suggested making a queer or gay jurisdiction as a test of just how dangerous it really is.
Still, I suppose I can add “accused of being Mencius Moldbug” (though it was very probably a shitpost) to the List, along with “labeled ‘faux Asian nationalist political thinker’,” “suggested should work at a think tank,” and a few other things.
The thing about Neoreaction is that Gnon doesn’t care about you, either, and neither did it care about species throughout history that have gone extinct - and what we want is survival and prosperity for ourselves, not to be subject to outrageous Fortune. And Fnargl? There’s no reason for him not to overwrite your mind with his superior technology or just replace you with a robot.
Neoreaction is not positioned to account for Transhumanism, among other things. As such, it’s a dead end.
Any overlap I have with Neoreactionary thought is largely incidental. I don’t really interact with them, nor read them.
I’m not a dark angel cast out of Gnon’s heaven to dwell among the mortal Liberals and spread the heretical gospels of Dark Enlightenment™. I’m surfing a wave seeking a better future, looking to synthesize a new, upwards axis.
I want to shitpost that Social Justice is White Supremacy.
Because under badly-done Social Justice, we see a pattern where only white males have agency, only white males have power, only white males are capable of action that actually does anything and can cause harm, and their resources are effectively unlimited. Under that same framework, the world is divided into whites and everyone else, and the whites enacted truly stunning and powerful violence on an unimaginable scale that no one else could. Their dominance is so overwhelming that any minorities disagreeing with SJ have “internalized male opinions” or white opinions, like some kind of mind control, and are incapable of deciding their beliefs for themselves. And the white supremacy must be actively held down, or it will inevitably seize control of the world.
But of course, it isn’t really the case that even badly-done SJ is truly white supremacist…
“not being white does not mean you are of color”, while a perfectly reasonable statement in the right context, suggests a categorisation scheme of:
- white (or “people who think they are white”, Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- people of color
- just folks
Whiteness/Colorness is defined by oppressiveness. Therefore, Yamato in Japan and Han in China are not People of Color.
Shitpost, or just another mileage marker on the road to Asians leaving the Democrats’ coalition in the US? Our expert DiversityTek™-certified discourse panel debates…
(edit: geez just how tired am i getting one of the countries wrong)