This feels like a misuse of the word ontology, but what do I know?

They keep doing it and it drives me mad!! I finally understood that they got the word from computer shit and not philosophy. Isn’t it just amazing? Here we thought they were vaguely aware of established philosophical concepts for a second!

What The Shit

I’ve been dating Nate for two years (tho wanna clarify we are not doing marriage-kids and we’re both actively looking for more serious other partners).

Nate is profoundly wonderful in many ways, like often surprises me in new ways of wonderfulness, and has raised my standards in partners. He’s deeply caring, attentive, competent, hilarious, and of course brilliant.

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Iirc he’s explicitly said he doesn’t respect my thinking (edit: he clarifies he respects it in some areas but not others)

The way these people are larping conflict resolution is so exhausting aaaaaaa please can you just do normal abuse

The comments section really is incredible, the level of ignorance about basic kitchen things, which since it’s womanly knowledge instead of dyson spheres they seem to be completely incurious about …

Oh and I’m curious now, but can’t be bothered to look it up myself in this slop era,

Has anyone done a men’s vs women’s grip strength study controlling for hand size, height, etc? I’d love to know what the results would be.

But anyways - why is there a vacuum in the jar? To preserve the jam? Isn’t jam a preserve? Like, I thought the whole raison d’etre of jam was as a way to make fruit keep, unrefrigerated, through the winter? Why must we preserve the preserve? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

what is going on with these people i’m so annoyed i’m about to cry

Why do so many containers require women asking a man for help in order to open them? (Or carrying around an opening tool or living in a kitchen?)

how often do you open jam jars outside the kitchen?? it’s not that hard! you don’t actually have to force them open through grip strength like an idiot man!!

took me a second to understand this isn’t meant as a funny prank idea

least egotistical lesswronger

oh my god this post and the comments are a disaster. if lesswrong had sane moderation it’d have been nuked in seconds but of course they need to believe the most important thing they can do is use reason and talk through it. don’t worry about all the private information we’re leaking!

best bit

also loving the part where he seems to say people should focus on saving the world from the robot menace instead of calling out his behaviour

amazing

yeah if anything this is making yud look good T_T amazing stuff

So, I’m sorry, in the last couple of months since I last checked, he’s started having sex with his manic pixie dream bot slash servant slash daughter? Man I wonder how people in his IRC channel are doing.

Apologies for radical feministing but “biological sex” is also a constructed category! It’s useful shorthand for quick categorising a bunch of related traits if you’re doing biology, but it does not meaningfully exist on an individual scale. There is no more reason to divide humanity on the basis of sex than on the basis of hair colour.

Isn’t it sort of a big point that the Culture is an oddity in that it’s thriving on inertia instead of doing like so many other civilisations and transcending out of physical reality?

HN:

The cost of saving a kid in Africa by donating malaria medicine and insecticidal nets is only about $5,000. How many people do you know who will cancel their Hawaii vacation and donate that money to an African charity?

tfw your model of an average person on earth is someone who spends $5,000 on a hawaii vacation. good lord.

I love the way people who go “yeah but IN REAL LIFE with real stakes you would totally chose the red button”

1. are entirely missing the point of thought experiments,
2. why the fuck would you comply with such a fucked up scenario in real life lmao you worm

yeah he rules

Ah yup, that is definitely the type of person who’s deeply attracted to cults.

Unfortunately there are a few things that make courts pretty tricky to implement in practice for things like the rationality, AI safety and EA communities. Badly implemented courts also can just make things worse by creating a clear target for attack and pressure. Seems very tricky, but probably we should have more courts (or maybe not, I would need to write the post to figure it out).

yesss yesss lesswrong people’s tribunals and struggle sessions let’s gooooooooo

jesus fucking christ this is insufferable, these guys have been masking off for so long now that they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel to find new things to do fascist signalling about

Suppose you’re a college grad who has to decide between the usual unpaid internships at dumb startups vs. getting to be a ‘research fellow’ for a group that says it’s going to solve philosophy and save the world, and the only catch is that the group is actually a cult. Still seems pretty tempting honestly.

Oh?