Yeah while they’re at it, they should water cool the oceans.
I’m like 40% sure you’ve replied to the wrong comment but in case you didn’t:
10^27 future lives
Ok here’s my Rat fermi-time traveller party paradox, in short, the Rat FTTP paradox.
- According to Rat doctrine, many worlds is true and science is amazing and will solve all problems eventually.
- Lack of time travel is a problem, meaning in some world, eventually there will be time travel, by 1.
- Lack of 10^27 people is a problem*, so we will also have that, also by 1.
The paradox: If time travel is so easy and there will be so many future lives, where are all the future rats?
No seriously, where are they? This FTTP orgy was supposed to start 24 hours ago.
Y'all have nailed how I felt reading this. You have this fellow who has constructed a cognitive process to self-harm at every juncture. Whenever there is an opportunity to believe in something that could bring them joy or closure etc., they head in the opposite direction because of some tenet they think is "correct" or "obvious" even though said tenet usually has a paper-thin justification. Davis is haunted by an Imp of the perverse; that imp is named Yudkowsky.
Reading this article just made me think “man these idiots need to go to therapy” and then as I thought about what to sneer about I realised “no therapist deserves to hear about P doom”
On one hand, it is good that people are becoming aware of these crazos and the amount of influence they have. On the other hand I am definitely feeling that “I heard of this band first!” kind of jealousy a little.
Fake answer: at some point in rat history they thought that Armenian people were genetically superior and decided to take traditional Armenian surnames as their handles, but they both simultaneously and serendipitously bungled the spelling. The names should actually be “Yvian” (pronounced yiv-yahn) and “Iarwian” (pronounced ee-arh-wee-yahn)
Real answer: probably a tolkien elvish name idk
They originally wanted a place that had a motte (and bailey).
It takes a real libertarian to be a government informer.
most charitable psychoanalysis: projecting their sense of rationality onto a fictional world is a way to express a deep longing for rules and logic in an often cruelly irrational world
least charitable: their sense of rationality can only be true in a fictional world, so they want to live in that rather than reality
Neutral charity: the author is dead, all interpretation is essentially fanfiction, and since we are all individuals, all relationships with texts/fanfiction are weird.
Broke: contemporary dentistry
Still broke: putting GM bacteria in your mouth to prevent cavities
Woke: examining your teeth for cavities before and after licking interesting objects found in nature and getting bonus nootropics out of it
swlabr
joined 2 years ago
I ain't reading all this. I don't even know who Yglesias is.
My first thought: Man, why the fuck does the numbering of the sections annoy me so much?
Second thought: Ok, I'm skimming this because again fuck all these words. Looks like he's trying to explore something about "master" and "slave" morality that I will not dig into because it's probably a bunk formulation of thought. Why does Edward Teach, the pirate, come up? The section did not appear to explain it.
Final thought: Okay, I think I was right not to read any of this. Essentially, it is just a paean to some truly terrible people (Tate, Hanania, Ayn Rand etc.) in the form of a shaggy dog story, with Nietzche referenced a lot.
Anyway, now I'm fighting the urge to get drunk on scotch, listen to "No Surprises" by radiohead and walk into the fucking ocean