[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

And via the links at the bottom of that page, we learn that drugs are going to need a major makeover to become cool again.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago
[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

If we trace one ancestry path back to science-fiction fandom, well, there's John W. Campbell.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago

Nah. A man who sucks his own dick? That takes effort and deserves respect.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Taking a look at Super-recursive algorithm, and wow...

Examples of super-recursive algorithms include [...] evolutionary computers, which use DNA to produce the value of a function

This reads like early-1990s conference proceedings out of the Santa Fe Institute, as seen through bong water. (There's a very specific kind of weird, which I can best describe as "physicists have just discovered that the subject of information theory exists". Wolfram's A New Kind[-]Of Science was a late-arriving example of it.)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

A fart-huff that hard qualifies as an Alvistime miracle.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

For example, the inaugural Substack post defining effective accelerationisms’s “principles and tenets” name-drops the “Jarzynski-Crooks fluctuation dissipation theorem”

To echo a comment from old!SneerClub: That's not a thing. There are three separate but related ideas (the Crooks fluctuation theorem, the Jarzynski equality and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem) which the author doesn't know are separate, because he hasn't a clue what he's talking about.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

Manifold dating: for people who want to fuck the locally Euclidean

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

It's a real term, meaning "influenced by multiple genes", but who knows what weird baggage SSC have around it.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

I made the mistake of assuming that my experience with LSD would be the same as anybody else's. Prior to that, I'd known that if you all drink whisky, you all get drunk, you all feel dizzy and you all start slipping around. So I presumed, mistakenly, that everybody who took LSD was a most enlightened being. And then I started finding that there were people who were just as stupid as they'd been before, or people who hadn't really got any enlightenment except a lot of colours and lights and an Alice in Wonderland type of experience.

— George Harrison, quoted on page 179 of the Beatles Anthology

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make Barbie.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

We're a point-and-laugh-at-TESCREAL-people group.

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