[ / / / / / / / / / / / / / ] [ dir / random / 93 / biohzrd / hkacade / hkpnd / tct / utd / uy / yebalnia ]

/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous

Remember when /ratanon/ was good?

Catalog  Archive

Name
Email
Subject
REC
STOP
Comment *
File
Password (Randomized for file and post deletion; you may also set your own.)
Archive
* = required field[▶Show post options & limits]
Confused? See the FAQ.
Embed
(replaces files and can be used instead)
Oekaki
Show oekaki applet
(replaces files and can be used instead)
Options

Allowed file types:jpg, jpeg, gif, png, webp,webm, mp4, mov, pdf
Max filesize is16 MB.
Max image dimensions are15000 x15000.
You may upload5 per post.


File: 1bce7935afe65b1⋯.jpg (188.45 KB,1920x945,128:63,oxybwcw8lki31.jpg)

 No.14796 [Open thread]

How do rationalists dress?

12 posts and 5 image replies omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14927

>>14926

if only! but it would take more than genetic engineering to update existing males.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14928

File: 10dfda883dfa406⋯.png (166.51 KB,350x339,350:339,rsz_tcb_961.png)

Did someone say The Conversion Bureau?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14932

File: 81f501817e45c67⋯.png (82.52 KB,250x250,1:1,fiocaelumestcontsm.png)

>>14928

The Conversion Bureau is so 2011. Try Friendship is Optimal.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14934

>>14932

>>14928

do any of these involve boy humans becoming girl ponies?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14935

File: 786dc4882917f02⋯.png (405.64 KB,922x1023,922:1023,lisr_1565257759_446181_ful….png)

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: 709d0de57b57afa⋯.png (48.63 KB,862x404,431:202,Effective_Cuckoldry.png)

 No.14931 [Open thread]

Effective Altruists = Cucks

____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14933

There is already an "EA sucks" thread.

>>14806

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: 01c238439989bf1⋯.jpg (46.03 KB,1600x1064,200:133,Remember.jpg)

 No.14531 [Open thread]

[Serious] How many members of the rationality circles (Less Wrong, Effective Altruism, adjacent meetups and the blogosphere) committed a suicide?

The problem seems significant and overlooked. Let's have an edginess-free thread to list people who passed away in the last decade and see if there are any common warning signs or patterns that deserve more attention.

https://endchan.net/ratanon/res/6741.html

24 posts and 4 image replies omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14899

>>14841

Is Zach M. Davis/M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake affiliated with Ziz now?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14910

>>14899

Wat. Why would you think that?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14912

>>14910

Sorry, "affiliated with" was too strong a claim, considering the evidence. "Sympathetic to" is more appropriate. He links to sinceriously.fyi from the following recent posts without a disclaimer like "Hey, most of that site is batshit and a known infohazard".

1. https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/jrLkMFd88b4FRMwC6/don-t-double-crux-with-suicide-rock => https://sinceriously.fyi/false-faces/

2. https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4hLcbXaqudM9wSeor/philosophy-in-the-darkest-timeline-basics-of-the-evolution => https://sinceriously.fyi/social-reality/

3. https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/sXHQ9R5tahiaXEZhR/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie => https://sinceriously.fyi/false-faces/

Zizians.info definitely existed by the time 2 and 3 were published.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14914

>>14841

************* Module 14841
14841.py:1:0: W0301: Unnecessary semicolon (unnecessary-semicolon)
14841.py:2:0: W0301: Unnecessary semicolon (unnecessary-semicolon)
14841.py:3:0: W0301: Unnecessary semicolon (unnecessary-semicolon)
14841.py:4:0: W0301: Unnecessary semicolon (unnecessary-semicolon)

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14930

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N4AvpwNs7mZdQESzG/the-dilemma-of-worse-than-death-scenarios

>Methods which may reduce the probability of indefinite worse than death scenarios (in order of effectiveness):

>1. Suicide

>2. Working on AI safety

>3. Thinking of ways of reducing the probability

>Suicide, depending on your theory on personal identity, may make the probability 0. If you believe that there is no difference between copies of you then there may be a possibility of being resurrected in the future however. As we aren't certain about what happens to the observer after death, it is unknown whether death will make worse than death scenarios impossible. I believe there are many ways in which it could reduce the probability, but the key question is: could it increase the probability? An argument against suicide is that it is more likely that people who commit suicide will go to "hell" than those who don't. This is because an entity who creates hell has values which accept suffering, making life a positive concept which should not be discarded. On the other hand, an entity with values related to efilism/antinatalism (philosophies in which suicide is generally accepted) would not create a hell at all. Of course, this is all based on a lot of speculation.

>There is a risk that the suicide attempt will fail and leave you in a disabled state. This could make you more vulnerable when considering indefinite worse than death scenarios. However, I would argue against this disadvantage because the only potential way to evade an entity powerful enough to cause these scenarios would be suicide, which always has a risk of failing.

How accurate is this?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: bca9562ae0301cc⋯.png (143.7 KB,1280x1300,64:65,rattumb.png)

 No.9669 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

rationalist tumblr gets rekt

112 posts and 4 image replies omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14749

>>13405

Or having vastly lowered testosterone from the ancestral condition.

Which is probably part of being an industrialized modern I guess.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14750

>>13399

Gosh, I do not miss 2018, the year when everyone regretted their body looking too much like their natal sex and not enough like the opposite sex.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14879

File: 201d465b0d010db⋯.jpg (54.65 KB,660x570,22:19,sex_differences_wm_conn.jpg)

File: 6e0874d21dd9d22⋯.png (280.34 KB,797x522,797:522,Screenshot_2020_10_09_07_1….png)

>>9687

>because Magical Innate Gender Identity does not exist and therefore the vast majority of the population can live about as happily no matter what sex they're a member of

Blank slatists are hilarious. Imagine a type of mind and strength of a meme bubble that have to exist to endure such belief, given personal experience with the ground truth of human condition.

Read these:

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/2/823

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/06/13/0801566105

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14881

>>14879

Large neural differences do not imply magical innate gender identity. Brains of men and women could be significantly different and nevertheless be able to live about as happily in either body and/or gender, with practical differences but no deep wrongness. You don't have to be a blank slatist for that.

Are they actually able to? No clue, but those studies don't look like a slam dunk to me.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14929

>>9739

>Davis is certainly hormonally transitioning, but he's convinced himself he can avoid the social aspect, and that's what he rails against AGPs doing. Dude's not going to pull that off. Having watched other anti-trans type Blanchardian 'eggs' hatch and immediately turn on their former belief system, I'm concerned about the implications of this.

In the end: Davis suffered a mental breakdown, stopped taking hormones, didn't change belief system. The above prediction holds, but only as a conditional.

http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Jun/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words/

http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



 No.14903 [Open thread]

Original thread:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201120050940/https://politics.lol/moloch/4302

Admin locked the thread so continue it here

6 posts omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14911

>>14908

>I am using that quote to mock TheMotte

(This is not to say all of TheMotte is bad or worthless. But I see a gradient of irrationality from SSC comments to old culture war threads to it. It will likely get worse the longer TheMotte exists as a separate community.)

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14913

>>14909

Just a fedora-tipper, he also likes to talk about how the Jewish doctrine of transmitting knowledge is fundamentally degenerate because it claims every generation knows less than the last (even worked it into his fanfic)

I think I've seen him dunk more on Judaism than on Christianity

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14919

File: 92037ff6f75b874⋯.png (42.01 KB,1229x673,1229:673,lesswrong_racial_demograph….png)

File: 7a6374cf92bf654⋯.png (24.7 KB,752x602,376:301,lesswrong_racial_demograph….png)

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14920

>>14919

Why are South Asians overrepresented and East Asians underrepresented?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14922

>>14920

For South Asians, the ones in the US are disproportionately Brahmins, who have a higher average IQ than lower caste Indians. For East Asians, lower curiosity might be a reason.

https://www.unz.com/jthompson/asians-bright-but-not-curious/

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: c346597b1e2fe77⋯.gif (11.48 KB,255x146,255:146,obesity (1).gif)

 No.9901 [Open thread]

If everyone just ate the way we did in the 1960s, the entire "obesity epidemic" would go away.

https://nchstats.com/category/overweight/

Paleo diets are retarded. We need a retro diet.

10 posts and 2 image replies omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14502

>>9903

>the weight of *lab animals with controlled diets* is also increasing

Is there a good explanation for this yet?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14877

It is surprising that this has not been mentioned yet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenovirus_serotype_36

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14878

File: b2fa2cd7af396d0⋯.png (109.85 KB,785x565,157:113,Screenshot_2020_10_09_07_1….png)

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14891

>>14498

800 kcal/day for like a year

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14898

Medium Yud

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



 No.14479 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

https://endchan.net/ratanon/ is the official backup board. Try there if we go down again.

109 posts and 478 image replies omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
Post last edited at

 No.14871

>>14864

Brilliant!

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14893

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14894

>>14893

https://politics.lol admin here. I actually honestly didn't know /ratanon/ was still around. I haven't followed 8chan too closely since the original domain was shuttered.

Not trying to compete or anything; just trying to provide a different discussion site with different features and moderation

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14895

>>14894

I welcome it, including to the extent that it does compete with /ratanon/.

8kun is not a good website and I'm unwilling to self-host.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14896

>>14893

Who is "we"? To me /r/TheMotte is an outgroup. It's good for them to have their own outgroup board.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: da0e3560b450db5⋯.png (25.1 KB,284x311,284:311,Screenshot_2020_10_09_06_3….png)

 No.14875 [Open thread]

Are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen#Common_environmental_estrogens quietly crippling generation after generation of humans, for the past ~100 years, after organic chemistry at scale became a thing ?

At least to me it looks remarkable that these conditions appear together in this moment of history:

1) Millions of tons of xenoestrogens (BPA type) are produced yearly since at least 1980s. These substances are used, for example, as additives to various food-grade plastics and as a coating for store receipts.

2) Quantitative phenotypical correlates of masculinity - grip strength, anogenital distance - are known to decline in men after exposure to these substances: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=anogenital+distance+exposure . A more controversial personal observation: many males nowadays look weak & feminized, and quantitative phenotypical correlates of femininity decline in females (recently we see taller females with larger jaws) Also there is a quite well established observation that female age at menarche is falling.

3) LGBT rate is rising.

A hypothesis:

There is a causal relationship between 1 and 2,3 which works as follows: massive amounts of xenoestrogens in wastewater get into the potable water (and into bottled water via leaching from the plastic), pregnant females drink this water, and the substance disrupts fetal development in various ways. It is known, for example, that some of xenoestrogens are also partial androgen receptor 1 agonists. These activities - estrogenic and androgenic, are enough to disrupt both male and female fetuses, possibly producing population-scale outcome we are witnessing now.

I think there is no fun to be had if this is true. If carefully selected sex dimorphism of a species is reduced/ruined, both sexes become less attracted to each other, and this lowers their QoL and fertility.

If this is true, wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14882

>>14875

>LGBT rate is rising.

Is it?

In the west the shift in social attitude must make it hard to find a real effect. Are there any clever cross-region analyses that point at the rate being influenced by something else?

Hijra are presumably cognate with trans women, and they're a little more traditional. Do you know how their rate measures up?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14883

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Such hypotheses are more likely than they seem to be, given the places where they tend to appear (image boards and Alex Jones' content). Scott briefly referred to this issue from the perspective of public image: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/04/respectability-cascades/

We know that male fertility and testosterone levels rapidly declined in recent decades:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mystery-of-declining-testosterone_b_59fcc5fbe4b0d467d4c224b3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis

The mainstream narrative, vilifying men and putting constant demands on them, acts like a chronic stressor. Women are choosier than ever, and their revealed preferences keep on favoring precisely what's referred to as "toxic masculinity". This results in even more intrasexual competition and the creation of a male caste system: alpha lovers, beta providers, omega incels. It can't be stopped.

Xenoestrogens are an obvious problem for public health. I'm not sure if they could also result in the major increase of LGBT people in the general population, but there's a huge space for interaction between the endocrine disruptors and cultural shifts (homosexuality is partially heritable, but environmental factors play a major rule). If you're feminized due to exposure to xenoestrogens since the prenatal period, if you're constantly shamed for male heterosexuality in all the subtle ways, and if your chances for a satisfying relationship with a women are minimal, then the likelihood of becoming gay increases. There's nothing edgy about this line of thinking, it doesn't involve any kind of prejudice against the LGBT community, and it doesn't challenge the scientific consensus on how the sexual orientation/preferences are being determined.

Yes, we're doomed. No, there's not enough attention, because conventional mascPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14887

>>14875

>If carefully selected sex dimorphism of a species is reduced/ruined, both sexes become less attracted to each other, and this lowers their QoL and fertility.

Lack of attraction between the sexes lowers fertility, but does it lower QoL? Consider a hypothetical world where human males are only attracted to other males and females only to other females, and they weren't dying out because they have the social and physical technology for replacement fertility. Would it be a less happy world? Maybe we are just living in a uniquely unhappy transition period between legacy heterosexually and successor sexualities.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: cfddcd21c546d82⋯.jpeg (19.41 KB,256x256,1:1,86tk_1431819890_16334_512.jpeg)

 No.14738 [Open thread]

Quick! A UFAI is going foom, and it is too late to stop it. However, you, personally, have a moment left to set its course. It is going to satisfy everybody's values through __ and __. Fill in the blanks. If you don't, it is going to be some random shit.

4 posts and 1 image reply omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14743

>>14742

It's all about phase changes. Right now, we have solid femininity. Obviously, slime girls are liquid femininity. The brap-fags have theories about what gaseous femininity will look like. And we don't know what plasmic femininity will look like, but I bet it will be hot.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14744

File: 57ea3989520b067⋯.png (42.33 KB,690x159,230:53,perpetual_heaven.png)

>>14738

Hedonium and Euthanasia

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14745

>>14743

n1x?!

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14746

satisfying values

recursion

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14886

>>14742

>What would posthuman levels of femininity look like?

look at twitter accounts of agp transwomen for a preview.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: 21ab55619610b55⋯.jpg (96.71 KB,1050x591,350:197,WarBoysHeader_1050_591_81_….jpg)

 No.14256 [Open thread]

If you're paying attention, human civilization is absolutely fucked.

Even though the IPCC reports are known for low-balling it, oil-producing countries are now in the process of silencing them:

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/06/27/un-report-1-5c-blocked-climate-talks-saudi-arabia-disputes-science/

>"methane emissions were actually 100 times higher than the fertilizer industry’s self-reported estimate"

https://marketbusinessnews.com/methane-emissions-from-industrial-sector-are-much-higher-than-self-reported-estimates/204498/

Nuclear-armed India is running out of water RIGHT NOW:

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/indias-water-crisis-bengaluru-delhi-chennai-hyderabad-among-21-cities-to-run-out-of-groundwater-by-2020-4590221.html

Topsoil is running out:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/

Insects are dying en masse:

https://thinkprogress.org/global-insect-collapse-climate-change-453d17447ef6/

Fisheries are collapsing:

Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

1 post omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14424

File: 3a257d6d0f753da⋯.png (154.91 KB,768x469,768:469,D9A5g-nU4AAmms-.png)

>>14272

Are you claiming that nuclear power will be adopted pre-collapse? Even if true, that's still just power; there's an entire ecosystem to address. OP is right on all counts, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14438

>>14256

>If you're paying attention

Fortunately I'm not. Close call for human civilization though, I guess.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14439

File: 6f11cae97858e25⋯.png (9.65 KB,585x82,585:82,adopt socialism.png)

We've had a good run

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14792

Very exciting getting to watch firsthand as the various apocalyptic cults struggle for dominance.

Seems like the global plague cult has suffered a setback, with humanity slightly more prepared for pandemics in the coming decades, especially if we get to keep practicing on seasonal covid outbreaks that don't even crack 1 megadeath.

AI cult with a strong showing lately. Spooky new intelligence that appears general, within the domain of "problems that can be specified as text and solved as text". "Intelligence" remains a generous term for now. Other cults praying that enough unknown unknowns are lurking in the future of AI research to give them time to catch up.

Climate collapse cult appears to be biding its time for the moment. Don't worry OP, I'm sure you guys have some great new stuff lined up for us as soon as we have another moment to pay attention.

Nuclear hellfire cult speaking softly but carrying a big stick, looming ever more ominously with the ongoing breakdown of law and order in that one country that controls half the world's stockpile.

Asteroid impact cult, always the contrarian choice, seems to be losing a race against the Gini coefficient as they try to identify a world-ender headed our way. Take too long, and all of us serfs will be able to sit back, laugh, loot assorted commons, and watch as Lord Bezos funds the entire asteroid repulsion project out of pocket to save his own ass.

Truly exciting times. I can't wait to see what happens next. Shame about humanity likely going extinct, though. I guess I was going to be dead for the whole cosmic endowment thing anyway.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14876

File: b6533c928690722⋯.jpg (411.58 KB,1920x1080,16:9,3c79eec87a02d5c6b022ff6f12….jpg)

>>14256

>Are you bothering to make any long-term plans at all?

>Not buying an AR, spare parts and ammo

>Not prepping for food, drugs, computers, data, power

It's as if you wouldn't want to spend the last days of your life having actual fun, a-non~

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



 No.14862 [Open thread]

A cron job will sticky/unsticky this thread every 12 6 4 hours to force the index to stay up to date.

____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
Post last edited at


File: f9d745621b29af0⋯.png (Spoiler Image,291.29 KB,802x1096,401:548,e5f6817c2c2f56399fbb03499a….png)

 No.11223 [Open thread]

Has anyone succesfully stopped liking traps and went from a state of considering them attractive to the opposite ?

20 posts and 3 image replies omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.11281

>>11270

I honestly thank you for your input. I don't really get the chance to expose this kind of stuff in real life and even if you did not have a lot of information to go on, I'm glad that you responded.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.11282

>>11223

Yes. Look to God.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.11283

>>11282

*reverse tips fedora

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.11285

>>11281

You're welcome, anon. I hope it is helpful. I would love to read how things were working out for you in six months.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14852

I am curious how OP's love quest went from here.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: 72411b7e3fa5703⋯.png (32.28 KB,200x200,1:1,ssc.png)

 No.14754 [Open thread]

23 posts and 7 image replies omitted. Click [Open thread] to view. ____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14805

File: 39c20dcf49d69e8⋯.jpg (135.1 KB,1280x720,16:9,maxresdefault.jpg)

>>14799

>I don't hate jews

That's why the inconsistency exists.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14815

>>14794

>If Trump fails to become Caesar Augustus, Scott Alexander will not very long afterwards be killed by those he regards as his friends, unless rescued by those he regards as his enemies.

How long is not very long? When Trump is out of his chair and a Democrat president replaces him the probability of a violent revolution will go down temporarily. Moldbug has been more or less saying this on podcasts.

Does Scott have Antifa friends? If Scott is killed in a cultural revolution, it will be by Antifa and militant SJ people who he recognizes are not his friends. His liberal lefty friends will get the bullet, too.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14837

Hasn't this blown over yet? When is the blog coming back? What should I be reading in the meantime?

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14849

>>14837

Scott is gradually leaving his employer and changing his style of working. The blog is moving to Substack.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation/

I'm a bit wary of Substack, especially given how Medium keeps getting worse. I hope he keeps the ability to exit at will.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14851

File: 18fb49c7fba8f70⋯.png (15.75 KB,300x100,3:1,1593613887995.png)

Hahaha

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: 81a4a9ece302f2e⋯.png (25.45 KB,600x338,300:169,open_individualism.png)

 No.14831 [Open thread]

Is Open Individualism, Closed Individualism, or Empty Individualism the correct theory of personal identity?

____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14832

>Open individualism is the view in the philosophy of self, according to which there exists only one numerically identical subject, who is everyone at all times. It is a theoretical solution to the question of personal identity, being contrasted with empty individualism, the view that personal identities correspond to a fixed pattern that instantaneously disappears with the passage of time, and with closed individualism, the common view that personal identities are particular to subjects and yet survive over time.

Seems suspiciously semantic.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14834

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



File: 4543059f349a994⋯.png (55.57 KB,682x342,341:171,2_2_4_slogan.png)

 No.14827 [Open thread]

Should the far right start using 2+2=4 as a slogan?

____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.

 No.14829

File: 35962036205a821⋯.png (21.16 KB,530x170,53:17,slippery_slope.png)

I much preferred the Steven Kaas edition of this tweet

Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.



Delete Post [ ]
[]
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
| Catalog | Nerve Center | Random
[ / / / / / / / / / / / / / ] [ dir / random / 93 / biohzrd / hkacade / hkpnd / tct / utd / uy / yebalnia ]