You're just typical-minding (or typical-lifing, rather). There are a lot of lonely people, probably more now than in the past, but not everyone is lonely. Societal changes didn't completely destroy the possibility of traditional friendship.
>People you hang out with at rationalist meetups
>> not friends. People who can bear to hear you talk about crazy rat shit that normies wouldn't tolerate, intellectually or morally
I don't get this one. Friends don't count if they're weird? Isn't it about the relationship rather than the person?

"Friendships" are a sign of weakness. It's okay to work alongside men and exchange ideas and intellectual matter. Emotional attachment is useless. Loneliness is the natural state of the superior individual, we thrive on it while only proles and brainlets are driven mad by it.

>>5808
Emotional attachment is a carefully evolutionarily fine-tuned dedicated subsystem to establish mutual trust. Rejecting it means rejecting your full potential for cooperation and limiting your own power.

Wow, that's gotta be the most neurotic thing I've read in a while. I'd recommend you start lifting heavy weight thrice a week.

>>5760
A list of non-friends is some evidence against the existence of actual friends, but it's not very strong evidence.

Friends are real and good, anon. Don't give up on finding them.

Backpropagation.

"Sapiosexual"

Sperm bank technician

AGP and GAMP

nice pleb-tier IQ score lol

>>5829
This post is not about my IQ, is about good sites that talks about rationality.

stop wasting your time with rationality sites
branch out

>>5834
To where?

>>5834
Contrapoints is a waste of time.

What came out of this?

>>4847

This guy is in jail and on trial now or something. I don't think the case has finished yet.

>>2223
Olivia Schaefer has publicly taken credit for causing this

>>5715
?

>>5715
sauce?

>>5576
proper links
https://twitter.com/archillect
https://readcomiconline.to
https://watchcartoononline.io/subbed-anime-list
https://boards.4chan.org/wsg/feel
https://reddit.com/r/internetcollection
https://reddit.com/r/opendirectories
https://twitter.com/ctrlcreep

you'll get anime in better quality from https://nyaa.si/

https://youtu.be/Q-if4SLV49A?t=405

>Telephone!
>Wrapped around my ear -
>Screamed at me
>Tried to suck out of my mind where I was
>Was stuck to my head
>And jabbered till I said:
>The person you have reached
>Is not a working person.
>He has been changed
>And is temporarily connected.
>Please.
>Hang yourself up."
The beatniks knew what was going on, man. This shit is prescient.

https://www.exurbe.com/the-shape-of-rome/

A blogpost about how Rome is built in archeological layers.

http://xoxohth.com is both a complete shithole and an uncommon nexus of culture.
also, I really like the format and I wish an 8chan-equivalent existed for its software style so ratanon could be a textboard instead of an imageboard.

>miscellaneous tidbits thread
There is >>5529 but it's easy to miss due to a retarded subject.

>>5767
I made one.
>>5769

>>5766
>It seems you wanted to share the story of Leopold and Loeb with us and came up with the idea of an "edgy imageboard mascot" thread to do it.

another example of how the subject line requirement makes this board worse. the actual intended subject of this thread was "favorite murderers", and the subject line content was just something I came up with to put in the field. it would be great if new threads could be built off either a subject line OR an image (or both), with neither being strictly required.

>>5776
I've experimentally disabled the subject requirement to see how many people start accidentally making new threads again.
The new thread form's button says "New Thread", and the reply form's button says "New Reply", but that's not enough to stop people from confusing them. It might be possible to make them more distinct with CSS, using a hacky selector. I'll look into adding text or something.
>either a subject line OR an image
That's not currently possible, and probably too niche/weird to get implemented.

Not worth it.

Also whatever you guys are reading feel free to make threads. I'm interested in what people who ended up here spend their time on.

I read _The Obesity Code_ recently. Makes a good case that obesity is a hormone problem, not really an eating-too-much problem, and can be solved by sharply reducing insulin spikes. tl;dr: Eat fewer meals, don't eat or drink sugar, reduce your carb intake while you're at it, don't fear dietary fat, and don't snack. Eating 1500 calories compressed into one meal will be much better for weight-loss goals than 1500 calories spread out over 3–6 mealtimes.

Taleb's recent anti-IQ Twitter thread was kind of lame and surprisingly pro-establishment for a famous contrarian.

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1076845397795065856

He's like a combination of Rick and Morty if Rick was arab and morty was a hipster scared by the fact his uncle molested him but everytime he would bring it up he would convince him that there's nothing to talk about.

What's most funny is that people who dislike peterson love this guy in most cases when he's practically the same thing except peterson has shown capacity to admit he's wrong.

>>3642
4channel's /lgbt/ attempts to bihack

>>3657
>>3668
I'm in the "origin project" discord server, as predicted it did literally nothing.
i also unfortunately live with hivewired, who has since detransitioned. they're just as bullshit as you think they are, if not worse.

Thoughts on Hivewired's magic?
https://hivewired.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/the-precept-of-magic/

>>5719
Calling it magic seems like a mistake, but is probably in line with the rest of the series if it includes such things as "Highly Advanced Tulpamancy 101 for Beginners".
It feels like a bait and switch, where the conclusion is "false beliefs can have instrumental value", which shouldn't be news, and "so be willing to engage in doublethink if it'll help" which would be more useful if it came with grounded advice for being able to tell when that's the case.

>>5712
I was going to call this a LARP but I just looked up the thread and it actually kinda seems real, jesus christ.

https://yuki.la/lgbt/11346104

>>5729
I envy you.

>>5734

Rats are ugly people, being around them makes you wonder if you're ugly too.

I went to the NYC solstice. I really loved it last year so I was excited for it this year. Sadly (and ironically) it was worse than last year. Not well rehearsed or prepared IMO, and I didn't like the new songs that were added this year. It was still relatively good, just disappointing.

I did have fun at the NYC mega-meetup though. (I didn't go last year.) Circling is surprisingly interesting and I had some good conversations.

(Thanks for listening, LiveJournal)

>>5735
This is an oversimplification. For you to go to a rationalist meetup a weighted combination of several factors must exceed a threshold. These factors include how ugly, weird and lonely you are, and the extent to which you have no life. You can draw useful conclusions from this model. For example, if you notice you are more handsome than the other attendees of a meetup, you are one or more of more weird, more lonely or more lacking in life than they.