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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:46:04 [Preview] No. 5997 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Is absolute pacifism the natural implication of anti-Molochism?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:38:58 [Preview] No.6161 del
>>6156
who is the moloch? the state?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:39:14 [Preview] No.6162 del
>>6161
You're a long way from home.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Moloch is the personification of the rat-race - the drive to undercut your opponents, to debase yourself in exchange for victory. Moloch is calculated betrayal, temple prostitution, ethnic cleansing, insider trading, mass extinction, nature red in tooth and claw. His symbol is the brass head of a bull, red-hot, caked with the carbonised flesh of children.

Moloch has many names. In his destroyer aspect he is known as GNON, all consuming, many-armed, sightless and mindless. Gnon has no symbol - he merely is.

Some pray to the two-faced Goddess ELUA, bearer of the cosmic scales. She sits at the end of time, weighing and re-weighing. In her left hand, CANCER; in her right, EVERYTHING ELSE. Her symbol is the crab. Elua is generous and kind; she is said to have given us agriculture, penicillin, and the Gatling gun.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:39:52 [Preview] No.6164 del
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>>6162
>linking to the George Lucas Special Edition
>not linking to the superior original version
http://web.archive.org/web/20140801022058/http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:40:08 [Preview] No.6165 del
>>6164
I'm too lazy to diff them, what scenes were changes?



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Utopias and weirdtopias Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:28:42 [Preview] No. 6132 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Post yours.
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:35:22 [Preview] No.6154 del
>>6152
I can't jerk off to this.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:35:38 [Preview] No.6155 del
>>6154
What if you have a junior aspiring rationalists who have to submit to a Rationalist Master, and the master makes them solve little math puzzles before they are allowed to get to the climax?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fnEWQAYxcRnaYBqaZ/initiation-ceremony


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:37:30 [Preview] No.6157 del
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Plantonize, distill and crystallize the mood conveyed by this webm and drip-feed it to lobotomized cave-pale wirehead gods. All-devouring whitehot bliss, forever and ever - GOOD END


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:38:18 [Preview] No.6159 del
>>6157
>Daicon III.webm
That is Daicon IV. But I agree, that's where it peaks, and it's one of the best moments in animation set to music.


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The global dysgenic threat Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:37:19 [Preview] No. 5968 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
From this graph it is easy to see that the average IQ of humanity is about to rapidly decrease.

What should be done about it?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:46:41 [Preview] No.5999 del
>>5980
>Humans
Referring to your species as "us" is a mistake. In some cases this mistake can be corrected through, once again, Nick Land, though yours may be too severe.

>I'm in general strongly against centralized systems. However right now…
You may have noticed that this is the standard pattern that arguments in favor of centralization follow in the present day. It is by no means limited to arguing about government. First, you proclaim your love for decentralized systems and autonomy, then you say why this time it is absolutely necessary and morally right to establish centralized control on an unprecedented scale and micromanage resources.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:51:28 [Preview] No.6015 del
>>5999

>Referring to your species as "us" is a mistake. In some cases this mistake can be corrected through, once again, Nick Land, though yours may be too severe.

Yeah. But I can't allow tropicals to ruin human civilizations. The main mission of my life is making sure that if AI or tropicals have to rule over the world we will get AI that treasures at least human-level rationality, philosophy and scientific knowledge. If we all kick the world slightly towards AI and away from tropicalization maybe we will get AI.

>You may have noticed that this is the standard pattern that arguments in favor of centralization follow in the present day. It is by no means limited to arguing about government. First, you proclaim your love for decentralized systems and autonomy, then you say why this time it is absolutely necessary and morally right to establish centralized control on an unprecedented scale and micromanage resources.

Right. I think a decentralized system works better. To get started conquests should no longer be forbidden by some shit known as "international law". That will solve the tropicalization problem within decades.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:54:02 [Preview] No.6024 del
BTW please PM me on reddit if you want entrance into my private subreddit. You are welcome on r/SevenZillionWitches as well since we respect free speech there.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:27:53 [Preview] No.6129 del
we must stop nanny state


sage sage 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:34:17 [Preview] No.6150 del
sage goes in every field



Kill(ss)ing Asuka Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:23:52 [Preview] No. 6116 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:25:17 [Preview] No.6120 del
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:25:49 [Preview] No.6122 del
>>6120
the patreon did not really get his money's worth


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:26:05 [Preview] No.6123 del
>>6122
argh, this was meant to be a reply to something else. the shirtless dude obviously gives us all the fan service we could want.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:26:37 [Preview] No.6125 del
>>6122
>>6123
you mean >>6121 right?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:33:29 [Preview] No.6147 del
>>6125
right.



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Where were you when Scott was Nazi? Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:21:24 [Preview] No. 6107 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:22:15 [Preview] No.6110 del
That reads like a right-wing parody of left-wing attacks on Scott. This tweet, however, is entirely serious.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:23:35 [Preview] No.6115 del
>>6110
It's David Gerard/Divabot, there's nothing he wants more than a uniform and a Makarov.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:35:06 [Preview] No.6153 del
>>6115

that guy's not even worth the effort of typing out his whole name.

why does anyone still pay attention to david ger



Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:08:05 [Preview] No. 6066 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
I'm starting to like this meme.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:08:23 [Preview] No.6067 del
A poll for /ratanon/

Can you voluntarily control goosebumps?

https://www.strawpoll.me/17466159


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:08:39 [Preview] No.6068 del
>>6067

Why yes. I call the technique 'Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon'.

Also that image is not a meme, but a Wikipedia page.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:09:11 [Preview] No.6070 del
For true schizoids/anhedonics I recommend sarcosine + NAC, and Reuteri probiotics also help with NMDA activity/reducing autism-like symptoms.

I wouldn't characterise the alt-right as widely schizoid, this looks like exaggerated Forer effect.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:09:43 [Preview] No.6071 del
My initial reaction is this seems scarily like me except for one or two points, but it's probably just the Forer effect.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:09:59 [Preview] No.6072 del
The sexual characteristics should have been separated by sex. I think it's very unlikely that a male would have erotomania, or that a female would have secret voyeuristic interests. Whoever heard of either of those things?



/ratanon/ group house Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:03:47 [Preview] No. 5859 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Who would you be in the /ratanon/ group house? What would the house itself and living there be like?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:49:29 [Preview] No.6009 del
In the basement is a warren of cages, space-heaters, and IV lines. Soft towels line the cages, and plump, dead-eyed white rats lie belly-up on the towels, adorned with feeding tubes and electrodes.

Every few hours, a volunteer from the House comes to wipe the rats clean of their own filth with moist towlettes heated in a bath of blood-hot water, then gently turns them to avert bed-sores. The volunteer checks that the heroin distribution system is operating correctly, removes and incinerates any expired rats, and marks their initials on a timesheet before leaving.

Fresh rats are ordered from a laboratory suppiler. One resident is working on a breeding program of his own, though progress is slow.

On the wall decimal places click up on a counter marked "utility".


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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:07:11 [Preview] No.6064 del
>>6010

Supposedly there is at least one Bay Area rat that has actual cages to put her visiting submissives in. I'm not entirely sure if they were joking or not.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:07:27 [Preview] No.6065 del
The water heater broke down months ago. Arguments over whether repairing it still flare up on occasion, even though the charred remains of the heater have been designated as a memetic hazard and quarantined.

The latest jury-rigged solution involves a vat of mineral oil, several hundred GPUs, and an entire fabricated altcoin bubble. Two residents work in shifts to prop up the hype via sockpuppet accounts. The current value of their increasingly precarious portfolio can be inferred from the temperature of the tap water.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:08:55 [Preview] No.6069 del
>>6009
>>6065
I enjoyed these.



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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:01:50 [Preview] No. 6045 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
What are some basic rational concept? A thread for rational 101. I'm lost.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:02:08 [Preview] No.6046 del
kendall jenner was born a boy


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:03:01 [Preview] No.6049 del
be gay


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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 10:03:35 [Preview] No.6051 del
>>6049
being bi is more rational



Please help me Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:20:20 [Preview] No. 5905 [Reply] [Last 50 Posts]
Hey, I got banned from the discord, I live in South America and there ar e no friends for me here… Does anyone knows more good communities? I don't know what the fuck to do, my last connection to other people was the discord SSC and now that's gone, I can't even get my account back to speak with my friends or see the other servers, I'm banned from facenbook twitter reddit etc. it's asking me for a phone number and I don't huave it my dad's dying I have nobody to talk to jesus fucking christ man I just said one bad word drunk and that's it?
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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:36:45 [Preview] No.5966 del
>>5964

Yeah I used a known alias. Well we shouldn't talk about that in this thread any more as it has nothing to do with OP.

Any alias would be known though as long as I admit that I'm in control of the subverse.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:37:01 [Preview] No.5967 del
>>5966
A new alias would not have been immediately known. You would have had the time to delete the posts. Your #1 gaffe is that you could have farmed the karma points on /v/pics.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:37:36 [Preview] No.5969 del
>>5967

I see. Thanks!


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:39:59 [Preview] No.5975 del
>>5952
Just make a subreddit. It is easy to create and switch between accounts.

>>5953
This, too.





Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:15:53 [Preview] No.5888 del
>>5887
But those are male women, the exact opposite thing.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:16:41 [Preview] No.5892 del
>>5887
The problem with traps is that they age even worse than cis women. The solution is male brains in immortal cyberloli bodies.


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 09:17:45 [Preview] No.5896 del
>>5892
But once we have immortal cyberloli bodies, what do you need a human brain for?


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>>5896
So that you can be the little girl


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