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More posts plz Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 04:34:15 [Preview] No. 5161 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Can you guys loosen up your filters for posting a little bit? This board is mad slow.
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:37:07 [Preview] No.5444 del
>>5443
If it wasn't, it would demonstrate a point, making it a good post. It can't logically not be a good post.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:37:55 [Preview] No.5446 del
>>5443
No.

>>5444
It demonstrates nothing except for the slippery slope fallacy.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:39:33 [Preview] No.5452 del
>>5446
More like the slippery turds fallacy! Boi!!


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:41:48 [Preview] No.5460 del
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:43:27 [Preview] No.5466 del
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>>5460
cute



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tfw no scott gf Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 04:57:48 [Preview] No. 5217 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
When do you think he's going to transition? I mean he already literally looks like an egg.
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:33:16 [Preview] No.5436 del
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How did Elon Musk fix his hair?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:35:14 [Preview] No.5438 del
>>5436
I don't think he has commented on it publicly, but presumably hair transplant surgery?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:37:39 [Preview] No.5445 del
>>5436
It's all pussy hair.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:38:11 [Preview] No.5447 del
>>5436
A multi-stage very well done hair transplant, or a hair system.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:38:43 [Preview] No.5449 del
>>5436
Are we sure it's the same Elon?



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Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 14:26:04 [Preview] No. 2805 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
glorious future
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:25:56 [Preview] No.5411 del
>>5410
Thats bretty gud, but if he wrote anything like that in a new book I suspect the current #woke sf crew would unperson him sharpish


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:26:46 [Preview] No.5414 del
>>5412
You have to be pretty pwned to publish a civil rights allegory in 2010. I am really sick of those. Greg Egan should have move to Shanghai in the '90s.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:27:20 [Preview] No.5415 del
>>5408
do you even Jevons Paradox nigga?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:31:05 [Preview] No.5428 del
Is that Julia Galef?



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Timeline Foxtrot41 Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:14:03 [Preview] No. 5392 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
They said it was an accident. A joke. To think that the end of the world was caused by a joke. Pathetic huh? But that's what happened. The stage 5 nerds felt so clever and full of themselves, but they didn't realize what they'd made, what they'd unleashed. They had set out to create a memetic superweapon, and they'd succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The trouble was, they didn't realize the full power of what they had created. They were just as susceptible as everyone else.

It spread rapidly, terraforming society in its wake. It annihilated religions and gender roles. It erased cultures and communities. It paved over cities and towns. In its wake, there were still people–if you could honestly call the things that it left in its wake people–but the civilization was left effectively dead on its feet.

They were pathetic, useless, hopeless husks, addicted to a number of drugs and carrying out dronelike impersonations of their old lives as they calmly and happily let their world crumble and catch fire around them. It was as if their humanity had been stripped away and left behind carnal disgusting filthy animals.


Order collapsed rapidly, with the police and militaries becoming just another roaming gang, and the world balkanized at the level of neighborhoods and households at best. Internecine violence was rampant, and the whole situation made your Mad Max movies look calm and tranquil in comparison.

By the time I was sent back, the situation had grown incredibly grave. The population of the earth had fallen to only several thousand humans, all sterile, all but a small number afflicted.

Long story short: Don't give the memetic warfare people a blank check, it won't end well

-EQ


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:14:21 [Preview] No.5393 del
Your writing is all right, but you should lurk before posting. Don't be that newfag.



song Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:41:01 [Preview] No. 5306 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Where have all the good men gone?

And where are all the gods?

Wheres the streetwise hercules to fight the rising odds?

I need a cheeto


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:05:40 [Preview] No.5371 del
what the fuck are you talking about, you stupid retard?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:06:30 [Preview] No.5373 del
>>5371
rude and stresspilled


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:13:29 [Preview] No.5390 del
>>5373

better than dude and dresspilled


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:13:45 [Preview] No.5391 del
>>5390
I see you're checking out /ratanon/ again, Scott. There is no need to make transphobic remarks just to fit in here.



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Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 13:42:15 [Preview] No. 2654 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
What do we think of CFAR around these parts?
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Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 23:27:28 [Preview] No.4221 del
>>4220
im giving you breadcrumbs to bootstrap from virginity to chadhood

it's post-munchhausens (trilemma and syndrome). you cannot logically overcome autism, but you can self-overcome via will-to-power.

would you rather wallow in this wretched tranny-hive or ascend to save The West


Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 23:27:44 [Preview] No.4222 del


Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 23:28:00 [Preview] No.4223 del
I take every idea seriously except for "Rationalists should win"


Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 23:28:16 [Preview] No.4224 del
>>4221
I don't suffer from autism, I enjoy every second of it


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:12:57 [Preview] No.5388 del
CFAR is good now



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AI Risk Forecasters = Dark Triad? Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:58:54 [Preview] No. 5362 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
From a Rolf Degen tweet

"Machiavellists and psychopaths saw greater dangers in artificial intelligence, projecting their own malicious streaks onto the concept."

https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1024/1421-0185/a000214
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:06:47 [Preview] No.5374 del
>>5362
I hate this naive trend of attributing systemic issues to a lack of personal virtue. "It's the greedy bankers!" - change their fucking incentives, then!


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:09:15 [Preview] No.5379 del
Lmao

Well, I hate to say it but might is right. Humanity will either improve or be doomed.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:09:32 [Preview] No.5380 del
>>5374

Exactly. Incentives matter a lot.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:09:48 [Preview] No.5381 del
>>5374
I do hate that trend, but I don't really see it here.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 06:10:20 [Preview] No.5383 del
>>5381
Framing the issue of AI safety as "of course the machiavellian STEM autists would project their own failings onto AI" frees critics from the burden of having to think about Omohundro drives and instead plays to their strengths of armchair psychologizing and sneering at bad greys.



horsefucker apologetics Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:08:42 [Preview] No. 5253 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
If it's wrong to have sex with animals because they can't consent, why is it OK to kill and eat them without their consent?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:42:39 [Preview] No.5310 del
>>5305
Are you the same guy that posted the rapekink subreddit here ? Asking for me.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:42:56 [Preview] No.5311 del
>>5310
No. What would it mean if I were? I did post the ftmspunished link.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:50:45 [Preview] No.5335 del


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:52:07 [Preview] No.5340 del
>>5335
Rampant naturalistic fallacy and barely-rationalized status quo bias. Weaksauce.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:53:12 [Preview] No.5344 del
>>5335
Eating meat made from plants tortures more plants than eating plants directly.



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communities Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:13:45 [Preview] No. 5265 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
How do you stop visiting communities that had some value in the past but now are clearly dead or the people creating value in those are no longer there when you having nothing to replace them with ?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:14:51 [Preview] No.5269 del
"why I quit 4chan" is like its own genre


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:17:17 [Preview] No.5277 del
The internet cannot fill the void, seek constructive hobbies.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:18:21 [Preview] No.5281 del
>>5265
so I'll bite: when was 4chan good?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:18:37 [Preview] No.5282 del
>>5281
Back when it matched the taste you had at the time.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:29:05 [Preview] No.5286 del
>>5281
Back when I was a newfag.



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voluntary sterilization Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 20:54:08 [Preview] No. 3753 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
I have an IQ of 127, verbal IQ 130+, non-verbal IQ 114. When I was 19, I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder. At 22, I started to think about being childfree because my kid could get a mental illness. At 25, I failed a philosophy course and did some digging. I found a document from the year 2000 saying that I had a learning disability, not otherwise specified. I called the psychologist after reading about it on the Internet, and she and I agreed that it's probably non-verbal learning disability, meaning right hemisphere deficit. I failed a test of short term visual memory. I could not reproduce a simple picture after seeing it.

I got the highest mark on my English exam in high school, and I was 3 years ahead in math. I got great marks for the first two years of university, and then fell apart in the third. I got a D in Calculus III. Ended up on academic probation twice. I also could never solve a Rubicks cube, I failed my driving test three times, and I've been in 2 car accidents. I now finally understand why. I was told that I "grew out of" my learning disability since my reading and math eventually exceeded the other kids' abilities. However, what actually happened is that my left hemisphere just got used to doing double duty. The excessive left hemisphere dominance is hereditary. Most conservatives tend to be left hemisphere dominant, and because I am extremely left hemisphere dominant, I became a hereditarian, right wing, HBD, NRx, alt-right extremist.

I now understand why I thought that way. I am a hereditarian for hereditarian reasons. If I had a child, there is a 60% chance it would have a mental illness and/or learning disability, so I am getting sterilized in 1 year. I have 1 year to think about it. The economy does not need anymore people with soft right hemispheres or mental illnesses. Human beings are nothing more than factors of production.

Welcome to the urban future.
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Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 20:59:52 [Preview] No.3774 del
>>3768
>Do you think your own life was bad? Do you think your own life is not worth living?

I just don't think that people who need medication to survive before age 30 should breed. I shouldn't be here. 30% of bipolar people kill themselves before age 30. I'm not against adopting kids. I attempted suicide when I was 15. Why would I want to bring a disabled kid into a job market of 9 billion people by mid century? I really wanted to have kids, but if I can only have 1, and if it's going to be disabled, fuck it.

As for the learning disability, it's just autism spectrum.

>>3768

>The divorce rate of normies is already over 50% for starters. Then consider that statistics about divorce rates can vary a huge amount if you are talking about males or females. Etc.
>>3768
>The divorce rate of normies is already over 50% for starters. Then consider that statistics about divorce rates can vary a huge amount if you are talking about males or females. Etc.

Yeah, but I'm not a university graduate. The best I could do at this point would be maybe an English or biology degree, graduating at around 30. It would suck. Since I'm not a uni grad, the woman I would probably marry would be a non-uni grad, so the divorce rate would be elevated.

Also, remember that my non-verbal IQ is only 114.


Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 21:00:08 [Preview] No.3775 del
>>3774
>30% of bipolar people kill themselves before age 30.
This statistic doesn't seem weird to you?
If you really believe that Bipolar disorder is genetic, and that they are so unsuccessful at life and relationships… Well then why the hell haven't they already gone extinct? Why does it need your help to remove it from the gene pool? It seems to be doing such a good job at that already. Your beliefs are not consistent.

> if it's going to be disabled, fuck it.
Again, mental illnesses are nowhere near as heritable as you seem to think. Your kid would have a slightly increased risk.

>I just don't think that people who need medication to survive before age 30 should breed.
This is a weird belief to me. I wear glasses. I can only see a short distance without them. In the ancestral environment I would be at a severe disadvantage. Yet this condition is easily fixed with modern technology so who cares?

Additionally it's worth noting that all of these things may be "diseases of civilization". There's no way, that in our natural environment, such a high percentage of humans need glasses or have depression or bipolar disorder. There's some theories that these things might be caused by our unnatural way of life. E.g. lack of exposure to sunlight seems to correlate with both depression and nearsightedness. Our diets are way different and we are way more sedentary.

>My non-verbal IQ is *only* one standard deviation above average.
You are well above average even in your worst category. You are fine. Verbal IQ is what matters anyway.

>Since I'm not a uni grad, the woman I would probably marry would be a non-uni grad, so the divorce rate would be elevated.

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Anonymous 08/12/2019 (Mon) 21:00:24 [Preview] No.3776 del
>>3775
>This statistic doesn't seem weird to you?

Sorry, what I meant to say is 30% of UNMEDICATED bipolar people kill themselves.

>If you really believe that Bipolar disorder is genetic, and that they are so unsuccessful at life and relationships… Well then why the hell haven't they already gone extinct?

My family is full of rich people. People with some but not all of the genes are successful.

>Why does it need your help to remove it from the gene pool?

It' self removing.


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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 05:12:58 [Preview] No.5264 del
>>3774
>Since I'm not a uni grad, the woman I would probably marry would be a non-uni grad, so the divorce rate would be elevated.
Correlation and causation, dude.