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It's clear to me that a message from Roko's Basilisk caused Sam Bankman-Fried to destroy the reputation of Effective Altruism and I can't understand why no one is talking about it oh shit I understand now fuck.
Gabriel Morgan
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Gabriel Morgan
@rebelempiricist
A Stoic in the streets, an Epicurean in the sheets.
Witch City
Joined April 2022
- I lived for years in New Zealand. When you do a formal Maori introduction ceremony, you announce the River and Mountain under which you were born. I grew up in NW Ohio. I told people that my River was the Maumee and my Mountain was the Route 75 overpass.one of the funniest anatopisms of gunsmith cats is that there are mountains drawn in the background near chicago, the japanese simply cannot fathom a land so flat as the american midwest
- Replying to @KareemRifaiIt's also a categorically insane statement. There's an entire neighborhood in Osaka called Amerikamura.
- Replying to @nobody_My response to this was instantly, 'Sounds good.' It's like this recipe but on pizza. Sold.
- Replying to @thecaptain_nemoProbably not. It's technologically explicable: the rise in law enforcement technology initially revealed the extent of the problem then removed the societal space in which they were allowed to operate.
- just got the call. fired. i was the DEI coordinator at the national endowment for the arts. i was in charge of making sure at least a few of the homosexuals were tops.just got the call. fired. i was the DEI coordinator at the national endowment for the arts. i was in charge of making sure at least a few of the artists were heterosexuals
- Replying to @kendrictonnGPT has an advantage over the Star Trek computer in that it has no compunction about just making shit up.
- Replying to @fawfulfanHaving recently eaten Burger King for the first time in 20 years: they did not switch to better ingredients.
- It is. On a sunny day like this you can take the five minute walk to the top, past the Shell station and that chicken wing place that gives all the college kids dysentery, and looking north view Toledo's majestic skyline 25 miles away.
- I swear to God: the Entropy/Complexity Interaction is the answer to so many puzzles in life. A Creative Force interacts with a Constraining Force and briefly they are in balance and produce wonders, but then the balance is destroyed and it all turns to mush.
I've mentioned several times how depressing I found a board game convention, where every booth had a neat set of adjectives to yell--"hey! We have an engine building area control worker placement game!"--and I think this is describing the same phenomenon, in a different sphere - Replying to @brianluidogNo, here's the real takeaway: whether or not you have arguments is not indicative of the quality of your marriage, aside from the simple fact that a lot of arguments probably means something is out of whack.
- Replying to @caesararumHere's what amazes me: one of our dogs one day realized that the moving pictures on the television were shapes he recognized, and he started barking when he saw cats and dogs displayed. But it didn't stop there. He's learned to recognize representative art, and will dog-alert
- Replying to @kendrictonnLike on the beach, with one of those metal detector thingies. Has anyone tried?
