/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous

Can you elaborate?

I visit hacker news for tech related stuff out of habit and I saw this on the first page, well not actually this, this article to be more precise.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/01/daily-chart-8?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/

Since I'm a believing poltard it immediatly made me lose my shit ( as in fun ) and decided to make a pseudo-bait thread.

On a first look the study looks like absolute shit but I plan on reading it today or later tommorrow except if someone else advices against it.

in retrospect this might not have been the best place to post this and the first post actually seems to imply I'm somewhat anti-{experimental_method}, it was more of a projection of a /lit/ specific meme when people talk about "scientism"

That beeing said I still haven't read this and probably never will because I'm afraid of the physical pain I might encounter if I do, I'm sorry if any of you wasted your time on this.

>>11370

>implying this isn't true of all rationalists

>>11377

The insights are all trivial, he only comes across as exceptional because of low standards.

Breaking down Chesterton's fences is a hilarious rationalist "pathology" that sometimes pay off, most people understand and follow the principles.

>>11380

>Breaking down Chesterton's fences is a hilarious rationalist "pathology" that sometimes pay off, most people understand and follow the principles.

What, exactly, are you trying to say here?

>>11383

That it's not impressive to see someone respecting chesterton's fences, the one eyed-man is king etc.

>>5683

>>11224

Please explain the analogy.

The minecraft thing is not an analogy.

It is 100% true.

Hence why Factorio is the nerd drug^Wgame of choice, aka "build infrastructure for the purpose of feeding a massive factory dedicated to the task of producing more infrastructure."

>>11366

>he actually filled out the name field.

You must be new here. Welcome, newfriend.

>there are people on /ratanon/ RIGHT NOW who don't yet know all of this subcommunity's shibboleths caused by outdated design choices

>>5683

>>11366

>build infrastructure for the purpose of feeding a massive factory dedicated to the task of producing more infrastructure

This is how I have been my whole life. It does betray a certain lack of creativity, no? Creative people, the sort of people who actually make content, seem to err on the side of producing too little infrastructure. I think they prefer using footpaths to building roads.

>>11274

Who's the "girl"friend on reddit and where's the secret discord?

>>11274

>secret discord

Meaning not the one linked in the SSC sidebar?

>>11274

> who used them to get u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN evicted from his group house

lmao, these fucking people

>>11274

>u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN has been having a semi-public spat with his ex girl(male)friend for the last few months.

Not doing this is, like, drama prevention 101. Accusations of heresy transphobia are also to be expected if your ex is trans. What was this somewhat prominent rationalist thinking?

>transmen in general

Oh, so his ex-girl( male)friend is a boy (female)? Rare!

>>11276

There are a few discords not linked in the SSC sidebar, none of them are particularly secret?

>>10622

Yeah I bought some spinach today. It's the lowest carb vegetable.

>>10617

They taste like fucking shit though

nuke a country lol

Read over this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_bipolar_disorder Figure out what people with bipolar can be good at. Compute the intersection of those activities and activities that have positive EA impact. Profit. Seems like bipolars are good at creativity? Try to generate new ideas related to EA or friendly AI or some topic that interests you during next manic period.

>>11290

I like south park dude.

On the topic of SSC commenters. I would be very amused to see comments written by the hypothetical baby of Deiseach and John Sidles

>>11293

Write an example comment, please.

>>11294

Sorry, but I don't have the verbal IQ to execute that.

>>10419

Is there a version of this chart that goes up to the present?

>>10603

uhh theres no such thing as good or bad kid, learn2rationalism

>>11331

Ok, what happened in 2016 to cause the price spike? The big Genome Bubble, where everyone went into a sequencing craze hoping that they would become collectors items' that could be sold with a profit in the future?

>>11333

Didn't 23andme get fucked over by the FDA around that time?

> I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that, "for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism. We can't restrain him when he's angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear button" and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.

>>11338

Narrator voice: They didn't.

>>11335

Is anyone of any note a serious negative utilitarian? I mean with no easy "buts" like "extinction should be voluntary".

>>11336

Could there be The Dictator's Handbook-type resource limits because of which Kim Jong Un can't improve his peasants' conditions? Even if you insist on a command economy and are very poor, you can do better planning than North Korea. Either Un simply DGAF, or he GAF to some extent but there isn't enough money to keep his generals satisfied AND bootstrap the economy.

>>11341

North Korea is best understood not as a Communist state but as traditional East Asian authoritarianism on steroids.

The point here is that Kim doesn't give a shit about his subjects at all. Instead he only cares about himself and probably some family members. He won't give a shit even if 90% of the population die.

Ridiculously brutal and effective governments that regularly culls low-IQ population through starvation, wars and war crimes is why East Asians evolved European-level IQ and are highly diligent, cunning, materialist and cold while other Mongoloids generally have 80-90 average IQ. These are the traits required to survive in North Korea and similar authoritarian regimes. If you are not smart, do not work hard enough, are too autistic, care too much about things other than wealth and status or care about justice you are just less likely to survive and reproduce and nobody outside your own family will ever give a shit about you. I mean who would miss a dead person when during major wars about 50%-90% of all the inhabitants die?

>>10194

The underclasses don't even have replacement fertility anymore, and they certainly won't on UBI and soy rations.

> soy rations

Eventually it will probably be tasteless protein from single-celled organisms + air + electricity, plus some cheap flavouring: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/world-hunger-food-electricity-carbon-dioxide-ingredients-solve-climate-change-scientists-finland-a7869316.html

>>0

Authoritarianism is negatively correlated with intelligence. If you don't believe me, Google it and check out the studies. Maybe you could argue for a Kuznets curve where the mid-to-high IQ is libertarian, while both low IQs and very high IQs correlate with being authoritarian, but I doubt that matches the evidence.

>>0

This is a common mistake, but you've got time preference backwards, "high time preference" is the shortsighted one.

>>10197

extreme political beliefs on either side of the left-right spectrum correlate with high IQ though, that includes extreme authoritarians on either end

This controversy just shows how lacking in Rationality the normies are.

>>11302

It really doesn't. Try to stop framing everything that way. It's epistemically unhealthy.

>>11301

It's in the UK, we hate guns and freedom here, paying kids to shoot pigeons with bb guns is probably all kinds of illegal.

lel

>>11323

bad post

>>11322

I'll have you know us skinnyfat little twinks will immediately die if we try to lift that much.

>>11325

Yeah, you guys don't count.

>>11324

good post

>>11263

>3. Castrate myself

>6. Fuck

I think there's a fairly essential flaw here.

>>11263

Nigger if you have a fuckin' time machine you can just kidnap him in front of his bodyguards with the power of Gun, then keep him in your rape dungeon until you get bored and/or the whole country you're in disappears into a paradox. Why the fuck do you need to chop off your own dick?

Shit plan. Here's how I would do it.

1. castrate myself + soy diet

2. time machine seems to complicated I'd probably narrow down his current male descendant under with most of his genes and looks(?fucking paintings lmao)

3. turn him into a faggot by exposing him to imageboards

4. make him fuck my boipucci

5. write the sequel to the sequences

6. kill myself at 40 like all mentally ill faggots

>>11268

>2. time machine seems to complicated I'd probably narrow down his current male descendant under[*] with most of his genes and looks(?fucking paintings lmao)

*under 25

I am going to CUCK Alexander The Great

1. Fuck the OP

No. I'm a kissless, hugless, handholdless virgin. (That used to bother me far more than it does now.)

When I was in high school, riding the city bus home another student sitting behind me started licking my ear.

I guess it was harassment, but I liked it. Also too depressed at the time to do anything about it.

>>11236

Were they the same age/your coeds or older/in a position of power over you? It would be the deciding factor in how I felt about it if I were in your situation.

>>11249

Nothing will change along with those. Don't feel down.

>>11266

Different group, same year. She kept repeating that she knows about me something. She dropped out after a year.

A bit of Ethereum, Ripple, Lumens, and some random ERC20 tokens that look interesting. Regretting not getting on the bitcoin train ofc.

Overall only a few % of my total savings.

>>11242

>Do you hold any cryptos, /ratanon/?

>>11243

>- inferior to monero

This doesn't make sense to me. Are you saying you don't hold any cryptocurrency because one cryptocurrency is inferior to another cryptocurrency?

>>11250

What's the fucking point of adopting digital currency if it's not government supported and usable everywhere but the gubment can still fuck me over because the shit's traceable.

I'd rather just use cach.

>>11250

>>11252

Nevermind I'm a fucking retard, I misread cryptos and I thought the initial post was about bitcoins.

I bought a bitcoin to buy drugs with back at 500$ but I never did. I'm enjoying the ride.

Also snagged a few monero recently, also to buy drugs. Will probably end up not doing it. Hope that ride is fun too.

>>11229

>no MUH FUCKING WHITE MALE

Not outgroupy enough.

>>11230

Those are different outgroups with some overlap.

>>11232

Nonsense! Everyone knows that The Outgroup is a homogeneous mass of evil.

>>11239

Exactly—if they weren't evil subhumans, they wouldn't be in my outgroup in the first place.