[-] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

Zionism, to define it in one sentence, is the proposition that, in the situation described, you have not merely a right but a moral obligation to keep digging—and that you can do so with your middle finger raised high to the hateful mob.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago

Oh hey it’s a rehash of the pedosmile maddox post from a billion internet years ago.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

lmao. Literally the only thing that had any truth or wit to it was plagiarised

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Society could replace like 50-90% of men in leadership positions with answering machines that record what women say and play it back at a lower pitch to simulate a male voice claiming women’s ideas as their own. Also the answering machine has a strapon equipped

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 2 years ago

What about: “read a particular HP fanfic to try and fit in with a new crowd, was utterly repulsed by the narrative voice, discovered later it was part of what seemed like an elaborate cult that was weirdly sensitive to sneers, and finally found an outlet for their nerd bloodlust”

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 2 years ago

morality of an anime villain

Plenty of anime villains would be insulted by this.

IANAL: His defense team must truly suck ass. To let the prosecution build the case that he is essentially amoral and profit driven is just baffling. To let SBF speak in any capacity at all is more baffling. The only way they could bungle this further is if they asked for more time than the prosecution was asking for.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 2 years ago

In this article I’ll be making a distinction between what I call Hard WN and Soft WN.

In this article I will mostly be describing why I left Soft WN.

oh dawg

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 2 years ago

What the fucking fuck?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 2 years ago

heredity influences environment

smugly "well actually environmental factors are genetic too"

aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 2 years ago

There is romance, there is sex, there are deliberately bad kink practices whose explicit purpose is to get people to actually hurt somebody else

The fact that this isn’t just a ratfic of My Immortal is cowardice to the highest degree

Also, I will mention it every time it comes up: “dath ilan” is an anagram of thailand and there just has to be a reason, dammit.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 2 years ago

Reasoning about future AIs is hard

“so let’s just theorycraft eugenics instead” is like 50% of rationalism.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 2 years ago

Someone should do a rewrite of "A Modest Proposal" in the form of one of these EA posts. It'd probably do pretty well.

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