I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence... Sailor Saturn.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Epistemic Status: Single/Cali girl ;)

    Maybe the mainstream is correct about everything. “Sneer club” seems to be mostly mainstream opinions.

    Lurk moar.

    For example, the mainstream opinion on covid was usually lagging several weeks behind Zvi’s posts on lesswrong.

    Heaven forbid the mainstream take a few weeks to figure shit out when presented with new information instead of violently changing gears every time a new story or rumor gets published.

    For anyone curious: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/rencyawwfr4rfwt5C

    My favorite quotes from within:

    Going on walks considered fine for some reason, very strange.

    My current best thought for how to do experiments quickly is medical cruise ships in international waters. [...] Medical cruise ships are already an established way to do things without running into regulatory problems.

    We are willing to do things that people find instinctively repugnant, provided they save lives while at least not hurting the economy. How could we accomplish this?




  • A lot of rationalism is just an intense fear of death. Simulation hypothesis? Means that maybe you can live forever if you're lucky. Superintelligence? Means that your robot god might grant you immortality someday. Cryogenics? Means that there's some microscopic chance that even if you pass away you could be revived in the future at some point. Long terminism? Nothing besides maybe someday possibly making me immortal could possibly matter.

    I mean don't get me wrong I'd give a lot for immortality, but I try to uhh... stay grounded in reality.




  • Let us list some of the specific concrete examples of wokeism in this blog post and comments. For fun.

    1. a gay kiss in the background of a scene in Star Wars
    2. The movie Knives Out
    3. What James Damore got fired from Google for pushing back against (if you don't remember this; he has pushing back against the idea that women make for just as good programmers as men do)
    4. Suing twitter for firing a significantly higher percentage of women than men during layoffs
    5. The episode The Star Spangled Man from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier where Sam Wilson gets profiled by police.
    6. Talking about ones membership of a protected group all the time
    7. Leaving / Disinvesting from Twitter after Elon Musk purchased it.
    8. Disney releasing a new Black Princess
    9. Corporate training that trains people to discriminate against majorities instead of minorities

    OK that's probably enough...


  • You can test people with bigger problems, like remembering the units in Wargame Red Dragon

    The fact that this "bigger problem" is rote memorization aside, it looks like there are a whopping 1700 units in that game. With names like M113A3 Super Dragon, CH46-C Phrog, or LVTP-7A1. Imagine some horrible dystopian future where you get to lock yourself up in your room for a couple months with an Anki deck trying to memorize as many Wargame: Red Dragon units as possible.

    Your brain would probably be fried by the time you edge out the competition for your completely-non-Red-Dragon-related job.