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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:41:50 [Preview] No. 5307 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
What's your P(the bay area community is fucked up | the latest shit) ?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:35:47 [Preview] No.5440 del
>>5439
> would not have consented if not for MDMA

> Free MDMA then addiction.
{thunk emoji}

bay ayran drug and cuck rope culture totally unrelated

are you all just broken jews?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:18:13 [Preview] No.5723 del
>>5384
>I hope the rapist will manage after being ostracized (but not prosecuted) by the friends of his victims


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:23:02 [Preview] No.5739 del
>13418
(editor's note: any sex that women later regret was rape)


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:23:18 [Preview] No.5740 del
>>5739
That doesn't seem to be what happened in this case.


This shit is crazy depressing Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:18:29 [Preview] No. 5724 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/181393724776/taymonbeal-cptsdcarlosdevil-thefoggygolem

Like jesus christ.
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:20:17 [Preview] No.5730 del
>>5728
Wage slavery isn't slavery, it's serfdom.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:20:33 [Preview] No.5731 del
>>5726
*looks at the second image*
I must thank my racist and egoist impulses I guess I never gave a shit about EA.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:20:49 [Preview] No.5732 del
>>5731
Do you work a full-time job? If so, then you're pretty much in the same boat as them.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:21:21 [Preview] No.5733 del
>>5732
Yes but my life is a lot worse and my job is a lot shittier. It seems altruistic people in general have it on easy mode.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:22:13 [Preview] No.5736 del
I don't know if my life would be very different. I already don't work a full-time job, play lots of autistic games and practice sports. Maybe I would work on enjoying socialization more, since more interesting people would be available for it.


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Genetic Determinism Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 22:09:10 [Preview] No. 3984 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
So, /ratanon/, you're smart. You're nonconformists. You understand behavioural genetics. Why don't you have ten kids so the future will be less shit?

"But I can't find a gf!"

Why don't you get an Eastern European one, then? There are plenty of quasi-legitimate 'international dating sites' out there with usually real women who generally aren't green card scammers. Plenty of intelligent, driven women (look, we're grading on a curve here) who know they don't have a future in their Slav shithole. Talk to a cute one, draw up a prenup, go full Quiverfull with the birth rate. Relaxed homeschooling, nearly unschooling, go Montessori if you can't swing that. Keep them away from psychiatry, time vaccines to get the ideal amount of autism. Inherit the Earth.
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:22:43 [Preview] No.5558 del
>>5554
Sounds like bad life planning, especially if your kids would be low-agreeableness rationalists like you.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:22:59 [Preview] No.5559 del
>>5558
Low-agreeableness doesn't mean no-loyalty.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:23:15 [Preview] No.5560 del
>>5558

Everyone benefits from everyone else being selective retards…this is one reason why we can't have nice things in any society.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:15:57 [Preview] No.5714 del
>>3984
I would if I could, I'm an infertile tranny.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:16:45 [Preview] No.5718 del
>>5714
Stem cell synthetic sperm?
https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_96139


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wage rage Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:34:02 [Preview] No. 5594 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
What's the "rational" way for me to escape this wagecuck life?

Should I read 80k h? I'm not sure I even care about effective altruism anymore, I just don't want to have tears in my eyes literally every single day. It feels like I have nothing to live for if I'm going to spend so much of it in working. UBI when???
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:00:56 [Preview] No.5671 del
>>5656
>You can still practice effective altruism within your system, by finding the most efficient way to help people sufficiently similar to you.
The most altruistic thing I can do according to my own system of ethics is to fatten my own bank account, so it looks like I'm already an effective altruist. Good to know. Next time one of you guys starting preaching to me I'll tell him this.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:01:12 [Preview] No.5672 del
>>5671
That's just effective, not altruism.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:02:00 [Preview] No.5675 del
>>5671
Yeah, you're really stumping the cucks by defaulting to base selfishness like every other fat idiot.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:02:16 [Preview] No.5676 del
>>5675
This, but unironically. Altruism towards people who resent it and wouldn't reciprocate even if they could hurts you and those like you. Base selfishness is far healthier.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:16:19 [Preview] No.5716 del
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>>5594
The rational way to escape is not to have been conceived by two ignorant selfish assholes who were too poor to allow their children a shot at a decent lifestyle.

Try the lottery?

Harold S. Geneen probably wouldn't recommend the management path for you personally. Nevertheless, you might wanna see what he has to say about the nature of clawing your way up out of the calamity you were born into, so *if* you get hit with some good advise about what you should be doing, you will fucking get out there and get to it.


Encyclopedia dramatica Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:25:30 [Preview] No. 5567 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Why isn't less wrong all over ed? Don't make me start the Kathy forth page
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:11:25 [Preview] No.5706 del
>>5703

>We're talking about an American cultural issue. Pointing out that that issue doesn't exist in certain other cultures doesn't help. It exists in that one.

>This is not a discussion about slavery in general. The discussion can be generalized, but you'd have to generalize it by talking about signaling and cultural norms in general, not by talking about slavery in general.

I have to talk globally because that's the only way to remove the log in the eyes of SJWs. What you described is better explained by cognitive diversity instead of by slavery.

One of my favorite examples is that of Trinidad and Tobago. Please explain to me why the fuck the descendants of indentured Indian servants are doing much better than the descendants of black slaves who were freed before them?

>This is what was meant by "segregation" in that context, and what would broadly be understood to be meant with the word "segregation" in that context:

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation

>You seem to be using another definition to derive a meaning that has nothing to do with this discussion.

I remember that there used to be a lot of discrimination against Japanese folks in America, including sundown towns. However they are doing well. Apparently racism had negligible impact on them.

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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:11:41 [Preview] No.5707 del
>>5703

If you want to ask me what my opinion of underperforming tropicals is, here we go:

They are a global liability of humanity.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:11:57 [Preview] No.5708 del
>>5704
>>5705
>>5706
>>5707
Your posts aren't naturally related to the rest of the thread. >>5704 and >>5704 appear verbatim in a post on another website from a week ago.

You bring up the same topics in all your posts in every thread you post in. That makes it hard to discuss other topics.

Can you start a separate thread for your posts, especially about race and (the non-existence of) morality, and keep them out of other threads? Then people who want to talk about it can seek you out there.

(I think this is warranted, but tell me if it isn't.)


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:12:13 [Preview] No.5709 del
>>5708

Sure! I will start a new thread on the Tropical Question (TQ) so that in the future all TQ-related discussions should preferably be in the TQ thread.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:12:29 [Preview] No.5710 del
>>5702

i sincerely hope you get your wish to be eaten by a bear, as you would most certainly find right by way of might.


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Imageboards Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 04:05:52 [Preview] No. 5094 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Do you think imageboards have been a positive influence on your thinking, emotional reactions and aesthetic taste?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:00:40 [Preview] No.5670 del
>>5668
>it's real
It is.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:01:28 [Preview] No.5673 del
>>5660
Checked

>>5668
Yeah, I was thinking about fast vs slow boards a little. For example, why was I writing an effortpost when part of its thesis is "effortposts are a weak strategy"? One answer is that I'm an adaptation executer and not a fitness maximizer, but I can also tell you I wouldn't have bothered if I didn't expect this thread to be near the top of the catalog for weeks: impossible on a fast board.

I also kind of ignored thread-opening strategy. For me it's high effort with uncertain reward, but as you and other anons have identified there are plenty of efficient openers. I think that fits with my general hypothesis.

(You)-efficiency = (You)s/effort
(You)-efficient posting strategy -> becomes part of imageboard culture
Not (You)-efficient -> doesn't
(You)-efficient, but also like/upvote/retweet efficient -> disappearing from imageboard culture in 2018


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:01:44 [Preview] No.5674 del
>>5673
Oh, I also hand-waved anonymity earlier, but I think it fits neatly into the (You)-efficiency model if we replace "effort" with the more general "cost". Some strategies have a real-life social cost without anonymity, and some even have a within-the-community cost under pseudonymity.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:05:03 [Preview] No.5684 del
Why is /a/ so shit?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:05:35 [Preview] No.5686 del
>>5684
normies, ree.


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I like men with perfect information Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:04:30 [Preview] No. 5682 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
At the end of his TED talk, the president of physics said he'd optimally fill my knapsack in polynomial time. Right there on stage!

I just know he'll rip off my cryptographically secure dress and dominate my blockchain for everything I have.

I want to be a good girl, so now knowing P=NP, what can I do?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 08:04:47 [Preview] No.5683 del
>>5682
There's one piece of information we don't have

Tits


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Moral Machine results by country Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:28:29 [Preview] No. 5577 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
China is obviously defect/defect, but is Japan cooperate/cooperate or cooperate/defect?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:29:53 [Preview] No.5582 del
>>5581
Gender/species preference could be something from a furry porn site.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:30:26 [Preview] No.5584 del
The passengers are the ones that deserve death. They're the ones that opted to get into the car.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:32:09 [Preview] No.5587 del
>>5577
>0 is the global average
Shit chart. Is the global average leaning towards saving the passengers or saving the pedestrians? If they wanted to lay out the chart like that, it would make much more sense for 0 to represent no preference in either direction.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:32:41 [Preview] No.5589 del
>>5584
Agreed, but I imagine for the Chinese it's more like "MY car is supposed to protect ME, fuck the unwashed peasants who couldn't even afford one".


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:59:17 [Preview] No.5664 del
>>5582
wild > pets


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sam hyde here, internet's busiest music nerd Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:36:56 [Preview] No. 5599 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
In the past I have been diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and more specifically social anxiety disorder.
It was so bad I couldn't even look people in the eye and I would start shaking whenever I feel like I am looked at, I would run out of classrooms at university because of anxiety attacks.
I can't remember what I was on back at the time.

I have now started a new course ( which basically guranatees a job ) and it's back. It's more under control because I am more mature and have learned to breathe, try to calm myself and distract myself but it still doesn't let me function as a human being. ( + )

I am too poor to afford therapy but my cousin works as a nurse. I have access to: paroxetine, citalopram, sertraline, venlafaxine, regabalin, tradozone and alprazolam.

( + ) I'm currently anticipating social situations and taking 0.50 of xanax ahead with like half or 3 quarters of an hour but this will not last me long because I'm developing resilience to the drug ( I used to take 0.25 ).

I exercise using the bodyweight fitness app whenever I can. I do not drink coffee, alcohol or energy drinks. I used to drink tea but at some point I realised black tea unsettles me and I kind of stopped.

My concerns are anhedonia and gaining weight because this happened last time.
I plan on informing myself for a few weeks first and I am seeking help.
If you can and want please share this post to communities which you think might me knowledgeable.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:41:43 [Preview] No.5613 del
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Psychiatric drugs are one step removed from witchcraft in terms of reliable efficiacy. The variation from person to person makes advice difficult.

As a starting point, you could try sertraline - it killed my crippling anxiety stone dead and replaced it with mild depression. Not a bad tradeoff.

Make sure you read the dosage suggestions for everything you try - I doubt dosing only in advance of social situations will do you any good in the long term. Again, side effects and effectiveness vary wildly from person to person, so perhaps do a trial with each medication you have access to and see what works best?

Note that I am not a psychiatrist, and am in fact only barely more qualified to talk on this subject than a neurotypical layman. For better advice (or at least a second opinion), I recommend r/slatestarcodex's weekly "Wednesday Wellness.

It's a cold world out there, anon. Good luck!


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:54:08 [Preview] No.5650 del
Thanks for your words and your suggestion. I've never had a reddit account but I've lurked /r/ssc in the past. Didn't know about that recurring thread.


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So What Do You Guys Think Of CFAR? Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:37:35 [Preview] No. 5600 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Pic related
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:40:40 [Preview] No.5611 del
what should I read for attachement theory ?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:40:56 [Preview] No.5612 del
>>5611
Aaron Swartz was extremely fond of Becoming Attached, which is currently sat on my bookshelf unread.


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Not even once


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 07:52:16 [Preview] No.5642 del
>>5638
What is "mythic mindset"? Is there a rationalist boat house? Post-rationalism and tulpamancy should be ideologically aligned with monogamy, though for somewhat different reasons. Being more traditional is one of the post-rationalists' defining characteristics.


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