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 No.13199 [Open thread]

>tfw your ingroup was calling people NPCs before it was cool

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 No.13232

>>13231

But anon, you're replacing the substance with the symbol

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 No.13233

>>13232

Not the guy you're talking to, but I prefer to think of it as replacing a shitty evolutionary compromise with delicious distilled superstimulus.

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 No.13271

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 No.13277

>>13271

>>13274

Where are these posts from? They seem familiar.

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 No.14516

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html

>By Feb. 25, Dr. Chu and her colleagues could not bear to wait any longer. They began performing coronavirus tests, without government approval.

>Federal and state officials said the flu study could not be repurposed because it did not have explicit permission from research subjects; the labs were also not certified for clinical work. While acknowledging the ethical questions, Dr. Chu and others argued there should be more flexibility in an emergency during which so many lives could be lost. On Monday night, state regulators told them to stop testing altogether.

Thank you based NPCs. Very cool!

I wonder how many bureaucrats one would have to murder their way through before finding someone willing to bend the rules during a developing emergency. Over or under the number of people who will die from COVID-19 due to any effective response being obstructed?

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 No.14486 [Open thread]

As being trans becomes more normalized within society, more and more young males are deciding to transition their sex. Within most males is a desire to be desired and cute and treated nicely, which they cannot achieve as men - it is simply biology. The idea of male disposability is written into us from the moment we are conceived. As the biotechnology revolution we are in the midst of progresses, complete sex changes and reproduction without men will be easily possible, and the reason for males to be male will decrease. Ask most males if they want to become women; the answer is usually one of logistics ("well I couldn't" "look at trannies, a lot of them turn out ugly") rather than opposition to the idea. Even without a complete sex change available, more and more males are choosing HRT. Why not keep your hair, not be covered in body hair, look youthful for longer, feel softer and smell nicer?

Of course, backlash from society will likely increase too. Many men are threatened and revolted by males who decide to abandon their gender roles, and many women want to preserve their privileged position of leeching off of cishet men. But to most people, a hope for a better life has more of a draw than hate and bitterness, and maleness will slowly be eaten away by technology.

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 No.14487

The end is upon us.

As being normalized becomes more within society, more and more young males are declining. Within most males is a desire to be, which they cannot achieve - it is simply biology. The idea of disposability is written into us from the moment we are conceived. As the revolution we are in the midst of progresses reason will decrease. Ask most males if they want to become; the answer is usually one of "well I couldn't". Even without sex available, more and more males are. Why not be covered in body hair and smell?

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 No.14488

40%

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 No.6494 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

So /ratanon/, what animes do you like? Which ones do you think are a good fit for the rationalist-adjacent community, and why?

Pic naturally related.

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 No.14428

>>14378

Literally the same thing as woo-ists saying that skepticism makes astrology or psychic powers or whatever not work.

At what point would him switching to Kantianism or whatever make the events of Fate/Zero all sunshine and daisies?

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 No.14437

>>14350

The thing to understand about Fate is that there's not anything to understand, it's pure chuunibyou: Rule of Cool crossbred with fractally complex power-levels/world-building. It's like Warhammer 40k or other nerd universes: it hacks your systemizing, but there's never an end to it, there's always another unit or character or secret.

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 No.14440

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>>14428

It doesn't make the challenges of life go away. But pic related wouldn't happen.

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 No.14441

>>14440

Yeah, so an Airbus full of ghouls touches down in JFK. You think when he goes in to extract Natalia from the ensuing clusterfuck and watches tourists get eaten alive while knowing "I could have prevented this", that's going to be psychologically healing?

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 No.14483

File: 7850789a6c9e6c1⋯.jpg (382.66 KB,739x1012,739:1012,1577093866026.jpg)

I really enjoyed Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. It's serene.

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 No.14469 [Open thread]

Guys, one moment please.

https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/

Can we please discuss about some sort of backup in case shit goes down with 8chan ?

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 No.14472

no I mean if 8ch gets breaded because of pol that means we go too

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 No.14473

>14472

Exactly. Where can we go?

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 No.14474

I've set up a board on Endchan as a stop-gap measure. It's not a great website in general and it's the most likely to start suffering from the same problems as 8chan in the future, so I'd rather have a different permanent solution.

https://endchan.net/ratanon/

A new place should make it easy to transfer ownership. I'm not willing to self-host.

I've archived the board locally so it can be moved and/or restored if necessary.

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 No.14475

Are we back?

>>14474

>A new place should make it easy to transfer ownership. I'm not willing to self-host.

Somebody should develop an uncensorable peer-to-peer imageboard already.

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 No.14478

>>14475

NNTPchan tried to be that. It didn't work out.

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 No.14448 [Open thread]

How does /ratanon/ feel about race mixing?

In my view, there is race mixing and there there's race mixing. There is nothing wrong if a White man wants to breed with an East Asian, Ashkenazim Jew, or Brahmin Indian female; those are all civilized people, and the resulting offspring will be every bit the equal of a pure white baby.

On the other hand, when a White female hooks up with a Black man, we all know that she's on the fast track to single motherhood. Even if you disregard that, the resulting mongrel will likely be the average IQ of the mother and father; why would you dilute your precious genes like that?

In conclusion, interbreeding among civilized races is fine. Letting your daughter hook up with Tyrone is not fine.

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 No.14452

File: 060c617e81b6f4f⋯.png (322.64 KB,844x530,422:265,MPfi2J0.png)

Your concerns are largely unsubstantiated.

Even if you're somewhat ethnocentric, the projection of US racial fertility trends by Edmonston et al for 2100 doesn't seem worrying:

38.8% white

30.6% Hispanic

15.6% black

14.9% Asian and Pacific Islander

1% American Indian

Out of all 550 million US citizens, the absolute number of white people will be only a few million less than today, 209 million.

If you're more concerned about the nation-wide effects of decline in average IQ and dysgenics: Richard Lynn estimates that US lose 0.9 IQ points per generation. By 2100, Americans will have lost on average 4 IQ points. Improved healthcare and mind-enhancing technologies should easily compensate for this loss, and by this time we'll be probably either cyborgs or dead.

I understand that imageboards should be permissive to edgy content, but "targeting individuals because they belong to specific ethnic groups" is the literal definition of "racism" and has a very poor historical record in making societies better. It also puts other important submissions (black pill, dramas in the rationalist community) in a bad light.

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 No.14455

>>14452

> If you're more concerned about the nation-wide effects of decline in average IQ and dysgenics: Richard Lynn estimates that US lose 0.9 IQ points per generation. By 2100, Americans will have lost on average 4 IQ points. Improved healthcare and mind-enhancing technologies should easily compensate for this loss, and by this time we'll be probably either cyborgs or dead.

This isn't how it works. Difference in 4 points on average translates into extreme decline in numbers of greatly intelligent people who actually animate the economy. Or, in other words, this means US will come to completely depend on Jews for guidance and Asian countries for production.

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 No.14462

>>14455

How does the average loss of 4 IQ points exactly translate into the declining number of 120+ IQ individuals? Could you estimate the effects on GDP and HDI, and should we really worry given the likely progress in embryo selection and brain upgrading tech?

I assume that the high-IQ groups (coastal whites, Jews, Asians) pair bond mostly within these groups, so there's little "IQ dilution". On the other hand, high IQ men may be the first to gain a better understanding of risks related to modern dating and marriage, deciding to remain childless and disconnect from the society.

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 No.14465

>>14462

Here's an example of relevant calculation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/4t8tgl/question_about_the_ashkenazi_iq_hypothesis/d5ktie6/

> Could you estimate the effects on GDP and HDI

I could estimate the decline in human capital to somewhere between current US and current Mexico.

> and should we really worry given the likely progress in embryo selection and brain upgrading tech?

Absolutely; reliance on non-existent and possibly politically untenable science woo that depends on current rate of progress is irresponsible. I do hope for these developments myself, though.

> I assume that the high-IQ groups (coastal whites, Jews, Asians) pair bond mostly within these groups

Indeed, they bond mostly within these groups with sub-replacement fertility. Also, I'm vehemently against complete replacement of high-IQ Whites with psychopathic half-breeds who will rant about their bar mitzvah, superiority of mixed race marriage, moral necessity of abortion and how the future is poly.

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 No.14466

>>14465

>superiority of mixed race marriage

If you're lucky. The ironic hell scenario is the one where they end up ranting about racial purity.

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 No.14420 [Open thread]

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 No.14422

File: c04bedc093690b5⋯.jpg (575.96 KB,2100x1200,7:4,__hatsune_miku_fl_studio_a….jpg)

Some suggestions:

1. Use the fucking catalog.

2. Lurk before you post.

3. Don't make duplicate threads.

There is already a thread about this.

>>14038

>>14038

>>14038

Gatebox is cool, though. I want tube 3D displays to become cheap and common.

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 No.14423

>>14422

My understanding is that the Gatebox only has a single display layer and is just another flat projector that claims to be volumetric; all the pictures of it that I've seen have an obvious single piece of glass in the center.

Contrast that with something like Looking Glass, which while also not a "real" holographic display, at at least gets autostereoscopic volume by stacking a bunch of layers on top of each other.

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 No.14425

>>14423

Then I have been tricked. I thought Gatebox had multiple glass layers.

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 No.14464

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At this point of gender cold war, only science denialists, ideologues and uninformed ones reject the Scientific Black Pill. I'm more worried about the coping strategies available here and now.

1) Optimizing for looks, wealth and dark triad is costly, nerve-wrecking and socially harmful, and you eventually can't keep up with the pace of the race.

2) If you want to preserve the rest of your dignity and sanity, becoming a humiliated beta in a poly arrangement is not an option either.

3) Escorts solve the problem of inceldom, but not the lack of true validation and complete love experience. Even worse, if you suddenly became Chad, then the black pill awareness and past experiences would make you incapable of reaching full satisfaction and peace of mind.

4) Modern psychotherapy will make you pay for being told that you that you suffer because of your privilege, misogyny, and toxic masculinity.

5) No amount of efforts and advocacy will bring the "past order". The damage done by female supremacy in culture, (social) media and law is irreversible.

Robowaifus are probably the ultimate choice, but lack necessary sophistication in fooling our brains. Uncanny wall is the key problem: some people claim that it will always be possible to tell artificial from human because as robots become more realistic, we will also become more sensitive and will always be able to tell that something is not right.

https://www.bolton.ac.uk/StaffBiographies/Angela-Tinwell/Tinwell-Grimshaw-Williams-2011-The-Uncanny-Wall.pdf

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 No.14451 [Open thread]

This has to be one of the greatest articles from ssc that I've read.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billionaire-philanthropy

Why not let the rich and privileged extract even more wealth from the working populations in order to donate a small ammount to charities that align with their political interest or actually do some good after they no longer know what to do with their money ?

People laugh at me, but I'm happy.

What could be better than having a hardworking life, at least 10 hours a day away from home and knowing that a part of your output is going to help populations from other parts of the globe you've never heard of ? Who knows maybe some will migrate here and one day make this country great.

Man, if only I can make some more money, then I could probably also join some EA-type organization but I can't right now because my boss keeps promoting only women.

Ohh well, I guess I can just be thankful to the awesome trio:

Gates: based man, made computers easy to use not like that linux stuff

Zberg: based lizardman, made keeping in touch easy

Bestos: based cancer patient, made books all audio so I don't have to read anymore

Thanks for reading.

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 No.14453

Bad post. It appears you've identified a random article which doesn't advocate the overthrow of the evil capitalist system, and criticized it for not doing so. A major point of his essay is that even if you believe "rich people bad, working class good", criticizing philanthropy is a harmful way to show off your wokeness.

>What could be better than having a hardworking life, at least 10 hours a day away from home and knowing that a part of your output is going to help populations from other parts of the globe you've never heard of ?

Dunno, but what could be worse is knowing that that same money is instead going towards bombing similar third-world populations or whatever other retarded shit Our Democracy dreams up next.

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 No.14456

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This article is quite good, but misses one fundamental problem: applying purely utilitarian perspective to human interactions is extremely difficult and fuels exploitative practices.

You start by worrying how many units of suffering are caused by billionaires capitalizing on cheap and hard work in your country, and how it compares to the benefit of charities' target groups. What if the domestic workers (will) actually suffer more, because compared to the citizens of developing countries, they're money-rich and time-poor, live in an atomized, consumerist culture, and have to struggle with low status or a lack of meaning? What if this is some kind of a self-sacrificing scheme that won't pay back in the long run because of mass immigration, demographic shifts, social conflicts, or 100 other scenarios? What if I'm playing "cooperate" when people and institutions that don't care about me play "defect"?

Billionaires can always argue that they just follow fixed market incentives and participate in an unregulated capitalist race: many of them make astronomical profits by keeping their workers miserable, monopolizing niches and offering addictive or harmful products/services. They can treat the expected value of charities as a kind of blackmailing shield: "Oh, so you want me to raise the hourly rate in Big Corporation? It would cost many lives of these poor African children I genuinely care about. Now be a good sla… employee and get back to your cubicle." You don't have to be "woke" to see the dangers - actually, embracing woke capitalism is a predatory strategy criticized by many centrists and conservatives.

Scott makes a very good case for not criticizing billionaires specifically for their philanthropic efforts (sometimes it's really the game, not the players it selects for), but we should carefully investigate how they fit the big picture.

> Man, if only I can make some more money, then I could probably also join some EA-type organization but I can't right now because my boss keeps promoting only women.

Not that I want to discourage you, but according to my buddy's brief experience, many EA organizations seem dogmatic abPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.14457

>Bad post. It appears you've identified a random article which doesn't advocate the overthrow of the evil capitalist system, and criticized it for not doing so.

I love capitalism in idea, just not the regulated braindead controlled capitalism "lemme get a monopoly, then lawyer up to keep the monster alive, say no to unions, lobby that shit murrica style" TM that cucks suck up to. I'm the kind of guy that says real capitalism has never been tried.

> A major point of his essay is that even if you believe "rich people bad, working class good", criticizing philanthropy is a harmful way to show off your wokeness.

I believe "rich people bad, I good", harmful for whom ?

>Dunno, but what could be worse is knowing that that same money is instead going towards bombing similar third-world populations or whatever other retarded shit Our Democracy dreams up next.

I actually don't care as long as it doesn't help people I don't care about.

I'm tired of being fucked in the ass so children can not starve or whatever.

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 No.14460

>>14453

Which is more dysgenic for a country, feeding it or bombing it?

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 No.14461

>>14457

>harmful for whom?

"Society", in terms of opportunity costs. I doubt wagecucks end up with any of the money even if billionaires successfully get bullied out of philanthropy. And some of their projects could actually be useful. At the very least, I consider the ceiling of good that a billionaire can do with their money higher than what a democracy would do with it.

>>14460

Very bespoke, anon. But I don't think it actually matters much either way because The Singularity Is Near.

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 No.14190 [Open thread]

Can someone explain the phenomenon of smart men _still_ falling for the polyamory trap?

- Geoffrey Miller, one of top evolutionary psychologists: vid rel

- Jacob F: https://putanumonit.com/2019/04/30/the-state-of-affairs/

- Scott: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/17/polyamory-is-not-polygyny/

1. Sexual strategies of men and women are inherently competitive. Monogamy is the best known and tested way to find a compromise.

2. Encouraging monogamy reduces male violence, jealousy and STI rates. It also boosts the net romantic and sexual satisfaction of the entire population across many life stages, creating a stable environment for raising children and acknowledging that physical intimacy, romantic love, engagement and life arrangements are deeply interconnected.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2016.1216153

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0735-2751.00110

3. Modern polyamory is basically the feminist disguise for open polyandry, increasing women's sexual access to the most attractive men and turning all the nice guys into stereotypical beta providers who get lots of drama and little to no sex or emotional involvement (the latter one should be important for asexuals as well).

My best guess is that some dudes are brainwashed by ideology, some can't leave their special ones who rejected exclusivity at some point, and some would rather be in a faux relationship rather than suffer as permanent singles. In all cases, I would find it extremely humPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.14333

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BTW, Geoffrey and Diana are now engaged.

https://putanumonit.com/2018/06/20/miller-3-polyamory-mating/

> 'Sexual jealousy is too strong to overcome. And then I met Diana, and she said: “If you want to be with me, you better overcome it”'.

> 'And then I eventually thought of a System 2 utilitarian version of it. I can convince myself that that dude’s getting more pleasure from my girlfriend than I am suffering from knowing that they’re together. So it’s a micro version of Effective Altruism.'

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 No.14446

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Yikes! If only you could ignore more than 100 independent black pill studies, become better allies and notice that it's actually the beta nice guys that have the most success with women…

Altruism > looks + money, the future is poly!

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 No.14447

>>14446

>psychology study using self reported data

Why does anybody ever take this stuff seriously? I know it's difficult and at times unethical to get data in other ways, but this usually is like searching for your keys under a streetlight.

The only non-self reported data in that study was from asking the participants in the second study whether they would be willing to donate part of the $100 (leaf) they could potentially get from a draw. It doesn't say how many $100 prizes were given to the 524 participants in that experiment (the first study had three draws for 297 participants, the second one only mentions "a draw", possibly only one draw for the 524 participants?), but in any case the only actual, verified data in the whole study comes from "Would you be willing to give away a fraction of a prize that you are almost certainly not going to win anyway?"

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 No.14454

>>14446

Worth noting that the author of the study in question adds the other result: it seems more attractive males cooperate significantly more in prisoner's dilemma. Appearance, I surmise, doesn't change conditional on cooperation. From this I gather that altruism in self-reports is proxy for abundance and successful, easy life guaranteed by good looks, hence perception of "cheapness" to help out another in a general case.

https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1147186444500426752

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 No.14459

>>14454

>abundance and successful, easy life guaranteed by good looks

Are you saying that good looks by themselves grant a heterosexual man a successful, easy life? This is implausible. What is much more likely is that good looks and success are caused by the same factors like low genetic load, good diet in early childhood, etc. Without these factors good looks are only a faked signal: useful, but not nearly as useful as what it is supposed to indicate.

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 No.12482 [Open thread]

What porn does ratanon like? What are your favorite tags?

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 No.14432

>>14431

Actually I'm really old, but I'm eternally 12-year-old in spirit.

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 No.14433

>>14432

Understandable.

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 No.14434

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>>14429

>Do you guys really use these elaborate tag-based hentai classification systems?

I don't see what's weird about having specific tastes, kinks or fetishes.

>Do you all masturbate to 2d pics?

Only of Kaname, you all high sociosexuality perverts disgust me.

>Am I the only one who will just load up pornhub.com, scroll down and click on "Sloppy spit covered facefuck deepthroat by epic throat fuck slut" or whatever?

Now that's positively plebeian.

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 No.14435

>>14429

I could in theory nut to whatever's on the front page of pornhub, but usually when I'm horny and have to fap, I'm already thinking of something specific because why else would I be about to fap?

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 No.14436

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>>14429

>Do you guys really use these elaborate tag-based hentai classification systems?

But of course. How am I supposed to satisfy my used goods fetish without being able to search for "eng virginity -defloration"?

>Do you all masturbate to 2d pics?

See pic related.

>m I the only one who will just load up pornhub.com, scroll down and click on "Sloppy spit covered facefuck deepthroat by epic throat fuck slut" or whatever?

Fucking casual.

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 No.14259 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

Once you have taken the redpill and realized how stupid and evil women's mating preferences really are (the hypergamy, the hybristophilia, the serial monogamy, the attraction to dark triad traits, the fact that five minutes of alpha is worth five years of beta… basically everything Scott admitted was in "Radicalizing the Romanceless" [http://web.archive.org/web/20140901014000/http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-romanceless/]) there really are only three coherent responses.

1. The traditional patriarchal response: Women, like children, are clearly too stupid, short-sighted, and impulsive to make their own sexual choices. They must be kept under close supervision from puberty to marriage, and in particular never left alone with a male who is not a member of her family. When she marries, it will be to a man of her social class who is of good character and has some means to support himself, as selected by her father (or, if the father is dead, her oldest brother). If something like dating is to be part of the courtship, chaperones are an absolute must; everyone in trad societies knows what happens when two people of opposite genders are alone together.

This, of course, is how the West dealt with the problem until very recently. And it is still how the Muslims, who make up one fifth of the world population, solve the problem.

2. The principled individualist libertarian response: Women have the right to make their own choices, just like everyone else. This will predictably result in women who have five bastards by five different baby daddies and no way to support themselves (see the black community), but that's their own fault and it is no one else's obligation to support them. If the bastards starve in gutters, not out problem. And if nice, smart, hard working men continue to be lonely virgins into their 30s, that's the price of freedom; there is no positive obligation on the part of women to sleep with productive men instead of violent criminals.

This is what we tried first when we got rid of patriarchy. It wasn't stablPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.14414

File: 09540051372a35e⋯.jpg (38.19 KB,400x333,400:333,hypergamy.jpg)

Okay anons, listen up, cuz I'm only gonna explain this once.

What's the most important word in the goddamn English language? If you answered "hypergamy" then congratulations, you're not a fucking bluepill. Everybody else better look up their old schools right now and ask for a refund because they didn't learn shit. This is fucking birds and bees kindergarten shit. You guys make a lot of sperm which you can spew after about a minute of effort, goddamn bunch of limpdicked quickshots. Bitches have to devote over 9 MONTHS to making a baby. So a man can have a basically unlimited number of children as long as he can find new women to keep on mating, while females have a very real limit on the number of fatherless bastards they can push out of their used up cunts before their uteruses dry out and they hang around for another 40 years waiting to die of old age. With me so far?

So the ideal male strategy is to impregnate as many females as possible. No shit. We all knew that already; that's why it is every guy's dream to score a threesome at least once in his life, and that's why lesbians are hot while fags are just fucking disgusting. Okay, so we all know this part; so far so good.

The part that most of us DON'T know about is the other half. The ideal female strategy. It consists of always finding the "best" male at any given moment. What's "best"? "Best" can take many form. Bitches love muscles, money, age, height, extroversion, power, and status. High quantities of any of this shit is like fucking viagra to them. But another thing they love is attractiveness. "But anon," you ask, "how can you be attracted to attractiveness itself?" Well, Timmy, I know it can be hard to grasp how truly fucked up the female mind is, but you've gotta stop drooling on the floor for a minute and make a fucking try. Are we clear? Good little retard!

See, there's this thing here called "pre-selection," which basically means that bitches are attracted to men that other females find attractive. Why? Because if this alpha guy is pulling all the bitches in this easily, then any son of his is ALSO gonna be scoring chicks like there is no tomorrow, spreading her genes even wider than she spreads her legs for alpha cock. This Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.14415

>>14414

This means that females reproduce by default, because unless a women is truly hideous, there isn't a red blooded male who isn't going to take one quick minute to impregnate the bitch. By contrast, males are divided into two very distinct groups. The 99% betas are destined to forever struggle for reproduction, perhaps raping one of the alpha's bitches while his back is turned, or lucking out and capturing a nice war bride after a successful battle with those bastards from accross the river (her husband was killed in the figthing, not that she will mind in a year or two). Meanwhile the 1% alphas get to impregnate all the women, which makes them sexier, which continues the fucking cycle, literally. In the world of sex, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Now this is the tricky part. A lot of men who get this far think that the answer is to teach everybody "game" and that as long as we can all be masterful PUAs, we can keep our bitches in line. This doesn't work because hypergamy is RELATIVE. It doesn't fucking MATTER how rich you are in absolute terms, if you own your own house and car while a middle age peasant barely owned his shit-stained underwear. All that matters to bitches is wether there are any men around who have it even better than you, in which case the cycle begins anew. That's why no matter how rich we become, we keep working just as hard in 40 hour jobs and 10 hour commutes; because we are not REALLY working for shit like food or electronics, which are cheap, but for bitches and status, which are zero-sum. They will always be scarce and we will always have to compete for them.

An important corollary to this is that females simply don't have the capacity to really fall in love. They just gina tingle. The moment you lose your job or otherwise get kicked out of your station in life, you can kiss the girl of your dreams goodbye. She didn't fall in love with you; she fell in love with what you had. It made her excited, and when the excitement is gone and she is unhaaaaaapy, she will just leave, taking your kids, half your stuff, alimony, child support, and your will to live. Then she finds some other high-status guy to get hitched to andPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.14416

>>14415

If you wrote this anon, you should make a blog where you retell the sequences.

>A lot of men who get this far think that the answer is to teach everybody "game" and that as long as we can all be masterful PUAs, we can keep our bitches in line. This doesn't work because hypergamy is RELATIVE. It doesn't fucking MATTER how rich you are in absolute terms, if you own your own house and car while a middle age peasant barely owned his shit-stained underwear.

Women are adaptation executors, not fitness maximizers. It makes sense that they perceive social status as relative because it is. That does not mean women's perception of men's smooth moves/dominance/personality/call it what you will is also zero-sum, or that status is important compared to personality. Teaching men game would almost certainly be positive-sum and eliminate a large percentage of incels. Another way to say it is that status seems to be something like 95% relative (the remainder is not living in a way that provokes an immediate disgust reaction, like being smeared with shit), but perceived smoothness/dominance/interestingness is only 30%-70% relative.

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 No.14417

>>14410

To that I should add that another famously doctrinal, buzzword-filled project of fostering "rationality" in Goyim was Objectivism; except Rand probably didn't consider herself Moshiach. As for SSC-aligned people, this place is at the far fringes of their cluster, so my theory applies to ratanons rather than to all of SSC crowd. Regarding your disbelief, I honestly don't care.

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 No.14418

>>14415

My takeaway is that /robowaifu/ has the right idea, we just need more r&d and commercialization.

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 No.14136 [Open thread]

In what unexpected places have you seen LW/SSC/… links and shibboleths?

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 No.14403

>>14399

They are parodying the "Polyhacking" post.

Kind of amusing to contemplate the depth of autism that would be required for a LW where someone would post a real "Lolihacking" post.

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 No.14407

>>14403

At least the motivation for polyhacking is clear, namely the promise of easier access to sex and intimacy. Why would anyone want to hack themselves into being a lolicon?

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 No.14408

>>14407

I'm sure you could come up with some reasons. One can make up arguments for anything.

Just to demonstrate the point by giving an example argument, perhaps something along the lines of MTGOW? "Lolis are innocent and pure, they won't scam you out of your life like adult women will" or something.

Of course you'd have to have some truly extreme autism and truly completely lack a superego to argue for this in the super earnest and serious way that is typical for LW. That's why it's amusing for me to contemplate someone like that existing.

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 No.14409

>>14407

Maybe you think all taboos are spooks and you want to be truly pansexual, or maybe you're just interested in the hacking process itself and you deliberately pick something you find revulsive.

(I'll admit that these motivations are a little more esoteric than simple access to sex and intimacy).

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 No.14411

>>14409

I like the way you think!

"We choose to love lolis, not because they are innocent and pure, but because we find them revulsive!" –JFK

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 No.14328 [Open thread]

>Political units should have total, and unquestioned sovereignty on their territory, because contrary situation leads to multipolar traps

>Yet at the same time they should be subordinated to market mechanism

Am I missing something, or are Moldbug's ideas somewhat inconsistent? Why is violence, or other rivalry through political means undesirable, but capitalism is not?

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 No.14329

It's been a while since I read Moldbug, but I don't remember very much talk of market mechanisms? Certainly no advocacy for neoliberal stuff like competitive bidding for government functions, etc. He talked about countries being owned by shareholders who get dividends, but that in itself is not a market, any more than say the internal governance of IBM is market-based…

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 No.14335

Moldbug wants to engineer a reduction in violence because violence is wasteful. He is not against all competition or conflict. He considers them inevitable. To him violence is wasteful pretty much by definition because it happens due to uncertainly about who would win in an armed conflict. People generally don't fight hopeless fights, so reducing uncertainly reduces armed conflict.

A market in state shares would allow for liquidation of failed states without the usual violence. At the same time it would align the quality of the services provided by states with the self-interest of their owners, making such states less likely to fail in the first place. It's the Mandate of Heaven with(out) a human face (being stamped on).

I don't remember Moldbug saying this outright, but he does not seem to believe that war is eugenic, at least in the present. It would be better if people competed through other means, like, again, capitalism.

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 No.14386

>>14328

I never understood why people thought Moldbug was such an inspiring thinker in the first place.

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 No.14402

I brought up Urbit at work a couple days ago. Kind of worried that bringing it up will activate some coworker's purity monitors, associate me with Moldbug, and target me for destruction. Not clear to me whether that's something I actually should worry about, when I previously was in a group of social-justicey programmers, they certainly associated anyone talking about Urbit with NRX and disdained them, but maybe they were just hyper-active in their purity-enforcement.

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 No.7163 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

Banner design thread!

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 No.14391

>>14390

I think the other two are a little weak, and I'm also concerned about @dril tweets making up an outsized portion of our banners. Sorry to be a downer.

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 No.14396

>>14391

Yeah, I think we have enough of those.

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 No.14397

>>14396

Honestly, even the polycule banner seems weak, although the Bayesianism one is pretty good.

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 No.14398

>>14391

Makes sense. I'll remove some of the weaker ones.

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 No.14401

>>14390

>>14398

I think the best of those are the Bayesianism and AI risk ones, and of the two I like the AI risk one best. The polycules one is a little confusing because it's not clear what "aids-theist" means. The HBD one is meh.

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 No.14148 [Open thread]

How can we improve the pitiful birthrates of the rationalist community?

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 No.14325

>>14321

I believe an evolutionarily stable response has been found to "have sex"-posting. It is "bend over"-posting. It doesn't quite work in the context of reproduction, though.

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 No.14326

Per the sister thread, I believe the solution is widespread gene editing to give the general population williams syndrome.

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 No.14330

I don't really even care any more. Evolution selects against knowledge of evolution.

Let's all do STEM and produce AGI or transhumans. Better a bot world than a tropicalized world.

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 No.14387

>>14148

you're making a lot of assumptions about what's good for the future of humanity there.

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 No.14400

>>14325

"Dilate" seems to have won out as a response. Have you seen this, have you heard about this?

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 No.11908 [Open thread]

What is it with Senpais respect for Vinay Gupta, which appears to be entirely uncalled for when looking at VG's online persona?

I haven't read the "Gupta on Enlightenment" post, because damn do I not care about the object level here, but VG posting in the comment section makes me think SA wasn't exactly being negative about him. I also didn't have the impression that he was being ironic when he was shilling the Luna Coin thing.

What am I missing here? Is VG much more likable / credible in person than in the comment section? Is VG revered by people in SA's circle of friends? Is it an in-joke?

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 No.11973

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 No.12072

>>11972

this is unbelievable

the fighting style is so fluid, it's like he can see through his enemy's defense and completely disregards all traditional styles for his own method

i'm convinced now of everything gupta claims

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 No.12084

>>12072

Don't you have other things to do in your life than trolling on 8chan, Vinay?

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 No.13362

>>11909

I blame the Bay Aryans. There's some strange force of memetics there which corrupts anyone that moves.

>>11917

Aella is a True Rationalist anon. That is to say she's a bizarre woman deep into esotericism pursuing high variance life strategies like camgirling and weird crypto startups.

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 No.14366

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