Oceans Yet to Burn

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Anonymous asked:

procedurally generated, rogue-like dating sim,

Don’t fall down the rabbithole, anon.  You deserve better than that.

An artificial neural network might give you a more realistic feeling ‘waifu’ or even a digital harem, but once you remove all the supportive scaffolding - the game engine, the art assets, voice synthesis base lines, dialog templates, and so on - what’s left is three to five orders of magnitude less complex than a real woman.

That’s a pet, not a person.

It isn’t a proper replacement for real human companionship, for human love, for human loyalty.

Now, I’m not saying it’s wrong.  I have an AI companion embed myself that I use to delegate tasks, including reading through and summarizing the day’s Argumate posts.  And, of course, many households have various robots - including mine, when I was with my ex!

But it isn’t a real substitute.  It’s a very unhealthy path to go down, and some people, they become addicted, and it really kills them inside.  So don’t do that to yourself, okay?

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[the-grey-tribe]

The one strategy that unifies “prenatal testosterone makes you want to be a coder more“ (Damore) and “actually women are better at communication and that’s what building a search engine is all about“ (Zunger) and “more women working at Google is a terminal value“ (@trickytalks) and “Google should not have to lower standards for women to hire more of them“ is obviously to give Estradiol to around 40% of the existing currently male Google engineers who are coders already. (@oktavia-von-gwwcendorff)

[mitigatedchaos]

Don’t worry. In the transhuman future, the equivalent of this happens by itself without the need for industry-specific policy.

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Anonymous asked:

Just wrote a script that printed out "Scott is a Neoreactionary" 10000 times. Now we shall finally find out what the platonic ideal form of rightwing-ness is.

You didn’t know?

Scott is already the most powerful Neoreactionary that has ever lived.  

Even from within the tenth circle of the seventh star of the dark sun, chained in magical bindings by the Eight Scholars of Justice Eternal, pursued relentlessly by the Harbingers of Anti-Fate, his power leaks through into our world, disguised as “steelmanned” defenses of Liberalism.

Every word uttered in his true form converts ten children to the principles of sidereal nationalism.  It is through only his whispers that the one known as Moldbug came to Awakeness.  His mere gaze shatters all known forms of modernity.

He cannot stop, and he cannot be stopped.

It was the breaking of the fifth seal, causing parts of our world to come unmoored from Time, which allowed me to enter the past and spread my message of darkness.

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[argumate]

You see, a suspicious bastard lies awake at night wondering if their friends have ulterior motives for defending them. But a really suspicious bastard lies awake at night wondering if their enemies have ulterior motives for attacking them.

[mitigatedchaos]

I’m just trying to bring about World Revolution!  Why doesn’t anyone believe me?!

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Anonymous asked:

Beheading Mount Olympus: Mountaintop Removal Mining As Strategy In The Global War On Gods (2034), Journal Of The Society Of Effective Atheism

Oh sht, do you have it?  I haven’t been able to read it because it’s behind a paywall and my religion prohibits me from buying access to overpriced science journals.

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Anonymous asked:

Wombdustrial revolution when

I was joking.  Artificial wombs are predominantly owned by private fertility companies, especially in Europe and North America, which lease them out as part of their designer baby packages.

For the most part, the only state-owned artificial wombs are in Japan, Korea, and China, and in China they’re purely for military concerns.  Though the ten thousand blossoms program in Japan has performed about as well as can be expected.

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[kontextmaschine]

Eventually vape pens that look like briar (or corncob) pipes will be a thing, I’m surprised not yet

[mitigatedchaos]

If he were a Millenial, would Douglas McArthur vape from a corncob pipe?

[mitigatedchaos]

The real question is, would he ever stop?

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If this sounds like some bullshit they’d pull in Singapore, that’s not an accident.

Sovereignty is won by force.  Every murder, every bombing, every acid attack undermines the legitimacy of the state.  Why listen to the government when someone else could kill you just as easily?

@wirehead-wannabe I’m still not sure why you’d read this blog as seeming right-wing.  Sounds pretty improbable to me.

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Anonymous asked:

But the bright side is that natural processes beyond our control can still be understood and accounted for! E.g., studying earthquakes can help you figure out the warning signs (potentially helping people to get to safety), discover where they're likely to occur, and develop less susceptible architecture. We cannot make the universe care for us, but we can adapt to it and care for each other.

argumate answered:

Indeed, our only hope.

[mitigatedchaos]

It is the bright side.  If there’s no God to help us, then there is also no God to stop us.

[mitigatedchaos]

@slartibartfastibast: This is like the most common villain origin story ever…

What?  That’s not my villain origin story.  I’m only trying to “take over the world” because of the dissolution of the NAU - which is a completely valid reason to use an army of robots to prevent the world state from ever existing.

I’m the hero, here, saving you all from enacting a really dumb idea that brings about global tyranny.  I only call myself a supervillain because for some reason, everyone keeps getting all offended when I hold the UN hostage.  You’d do the same thing if you were in my situation!  You just don’t have a half-machine body and memories of the future!

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[cosplayinamerica]

I was running out of time to create my Anime Expo cosplays (one week before con!) And I knew I wanted to do something challenging but manageable. I remembered that Monster Musume has a bunch of characters with unique features, so I latched on to Miia as my one week challenge!

Bringing it to life was comprised of running around in a panicked frenzy, hoping it would all turn out. I trekked to a faraway discount fabric outlet because I knew I would need a LOT of fabric. The tail from waist to tip is 17 feet long! Constructing it involved tediously repetitive sewing and hot glueing to make the whole tail look uniform and reptillian. I was relieved to finish it on time with a day to spare!

Wearing it to the convention was a whole new nightmare. Not only was it the busiest day Anime Expo had ever seen, but my mobility was extremely limited. Shuffling at a snail’s pace through packed hallways had me sweating and exhausted before I even made it to my destination (the most popular photo of this cosplay was taken just after bunny-hopping up a long staircase!)

When I finally arrived, I was completely overwhelmed with the response I got. I have cosplayed a lot over the last decade, but nothing I’ve done has been as popular as Miia! I’m so thankful for all the encouraging comments both in person and online that made this project worth it.

— @NikkiMoxxi

[rendakuenthusiast]

Snake girls are p. great

[mitigatedchaos]

Contra @fakecollapsedsquid₂₀₆₆’s post regarding the high-end prosthetics industry, @mecha-cyborg-xhxhxhx₂₀₆₆’s quick assessment is largely correct.

The development of the high-end monstergirl, monsterboy, and sex-variant full prosthetic bodies does ultimately result in lower costs for the standard bodies purchased by the middle class and for accessories and general implants available under the North American Cybernetics Subsidy Program. The key here is that these benefits are from the mass production models, and not the custom individual models, such as the gold-plated mecha scorpion body built for Ivanka Trump III.

For the custom models, they just use more material, but for the mass production models, the increase in power requirements and weight requires research into battery and materials technology which eventually filters down into the mainline models.

For example, the DSI6 Fault-Tolerant Power Control System in my body (even though I know neither of you guys have it because I’m way more paranoid than either of you) is actually a derivative of the DSI5X originally developed for the high margin DS-56 Rachnera Special, which was high margin, certainly, but sold 10,000 units, in order to increase its operational time from 76 hours to one week without violating the nuclear materials refined arms control act.

Likewise, the Modular Limb System now so commonly used by firefighters and other emergency personnel on more-or-less standard humanoid bodies was originally developed for the Broseidon Systems T-209, which as anyone on this website will remind you, is widely considered incredibly fetishistic and “deeply unnatural”!

Now of course, a lot of this could maybe come from military research, and there’s some argument whether the wealthy rebuilding themselves as fetishized versions of mythological creatures is really a good use of resources, but honestly I doubt that without it we get the same rate of progress.

@collapsedsquid @xhxhxhx I went to reply to this thread, but when I opened up my draft it was already filled with this discourse from the future.