Amoeba_Girl

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

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i hit cancel insteaad of reply and my post got eaten sorry i'll just listpost now then

What’s a movie that’s terrible in an interesting way that could teach aspiring filmmakers something about the craft beyond just “don’t do that”?

• Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam ("Turkish Star Wars") it's great it's fun it's inventive it does sampling
• After Last Season ; it's weird and sedate and bare and hypnotic and cool

they're legitimately great movies if you're into the possibilities of cinema imo but if you want well regarded movies that do similar things go with:

• Céline et Julie vont en bateau – Phantom Ladies over Paris
• Věra Chytilová's Daisies (Sedmikrásky)

they're all very fun and very free in form

also Céline & Julie would make a great muppet film i'm sure

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

I’ve done crowdsourced work qualifying bits of random work e-mails (had to determine “is this a query” if I recall correctly), and yeah this was like more than a dozen years ago.

The ends justify the means but the means are genocide and slavery and the ends are a society with none of those pesky labour rights built on a bedrock of white supremacy. Where’s the dilemma?

I was referring of course to this vision of hell on their webpage!

I wonder if they've ever experienced any emotion other than smugness.