The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • The sadness will last forever.
    don't pay the trees
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    He handles rambunctious students like a boss, I'll admit.

    Note: High levels of Frenchness in that video.
  • The sadness will last forever.
    blip blip blip
  • edited 2013-11-01 20:42:08
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    well, actually plain English sprinkled with silly neologisms, but he'll link you to his blog post that explains those in plain English

    part of the problem with Lacan is that much of his stuff was written for students who knew him in person, so it may have made more sense in that context
  • Tachyon said:

    say what you will about Yudkowsky, he tries to make his ideas fairly accessible and uses plain English

    I realize that I am pretty thoroughly unqualified to even think about philosophy but like

    no.
  • edited 2013-11-01 20:46:27


    this is my new theme song
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Using a suitable DEVICE such as a yolk-seperator or the Yolkine Seperatus
    Technique mentioned in the Avine Reproduction Sequence. That is to say you
    separate the two parts of the egg, you may argue that the shell is part of the
    egg, but here we are strictly talking about the EDIBLE parts of the egg. You
    may ask why we define the egg-shell as inedible, but that is for another
    sequence.

     

    Wham-a-bam the yolks till they appear creamish, at which point apply to the
    mixture two teacupfuls of extra-fine monosaccharide crystals to create a
    Vitellian Monosaccharide mixture. Here it may be worthwhile noticing that at
    this point the whites will be in a separate container and that you are not to
    mix them and the yolks at this stage! See the Mixture Assumption Error
    sequence.

     

    Wham-a-bam the resulting Vitellian Monosaccharide mixture for five to ten
    minutes while maintaining steady supervision of the mixture to ensure that you
    reach optimal results. Then add two tablespoonfuls of milk or water, a measure
    of salt sufficient for this cake. It is worth noticing that despite this being
    a sweet sponge cake the salt is necessary as a flavour enhancer, much in the
    same way as MSG may be added to say Chinese take-out foods. The salt is not
    meant to provide flavour in itself, but, as I said, to enhance the flavour of
    other ingredients. This is a well known technique, but given how
    counter-intuitive it is it is a technique that is often either ignored by
    inexperienced Pastry Creationists or else done entirely by rote without fully
    understanding the underlying principles. This is why you will also add some
    flavouring at this stage.

     

    Now add a fraction of the albumen, which you should have wham-a-bammed as
    well. Then add two cups of flour into which you have sifted two teaspoonfuls of
    baking powder; It is important to understand that the gas-development of the
    baking-powder is what helps turn this cake into a sponge. As the baking-powder
    is heated it releases vapours which creates many hollows in the body of the
    cake. Take the resulting mixture and slowly mix it into the Enhanced Vitellian
    Monosaccharide mixture, ensure that the mixture speed is the minimum necessary to
    combine the two ingredients.

     

    To conclude mix in the remainder of the albumen. Line the baking containers
    with buttered paper. That is to say paper onto which butter has been applied to
    ensure that it will come loose easily when the baking process if over. Then
    fill the containers two-thirds full.

  • My dreams exceed my real life
    The above was a parody someone wrote of Yudkowsky's writing style by showing what a cake recipe written by him might look like.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Lacan's followers scare me less than Yudkowsky's, though, because Lacan's followers just sound like stuffed shirts and fellow traveller "science-mystic" types, where Yudkowsky's strongest adherents honestly seem to think that they are purely rational übermenschen. Like, y'know, when Jane in Homestuck gets robo-possessed.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ok the parody is funny, and i get what you mean

    but at the same time, it's perfectly comprehensible on first reading; you don't have to read and reread to figure what he's saying

    Lacan's style is extremely dense and often vague or allusive

    if Yudkowsky wrote like him LessWrong would never have gotten off the ground
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Should Centralia use English or Metric units?

    I always imagined it borders the US, so I'd imagine a lot of people are driving cars with MPH dashboards and giving speeds in km/h might just add confusion

    But at the same time, Canada borders the US and they don't seem to have a problem with posting speeds in km/h...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    which do you prefer?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    See, that's the problem

    I don't have a strong preference one way or the other so I was trying to decide by which one makes more logical sense
  • edited 2013-11-01 21:00:05
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    go bi-unitary?

    (you probably knew this but there is no one system of 'English units'; the US customary system is not the same as the British Imperial system)
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    nobody ever told me this before why

    nobody ever told me that the US system was bastardized Imperial
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Tachyon said:

    go bi-unitary?

    (you probably knew this but there is no one system of 'English units'; the US customary system is not the same as the British Imperial system)

    I considered that too.

    (And yeah, I just have a habit of calling it "English" because that's what I was taught in elementary school.)


    Anonus said:

    nobody ever told me this before why


    nobody ever told me that the US system was bastardized Imperial
    Oh...I figured you already knew that
  • edited 2013-11-01 21:08:09
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^ it's not

    both the Imperial system and the US system are based on an older system that's now defunct

    also 'bastardized' is a needlessly loaded term in this context anyways, since there's nothing intrinsically more pure or elegant about either system
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Why does everyone know more about measurements than I do

    seriously do you all just sit around reading about measurement systems
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i dunno man

    why does everyone know more about art and computers and economics and typography than me?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    we had to use metric in school, while outside school everyone uses imperial

    so that's why i know what little i do about them i guess
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    It occurs to me that this song might actually be racist.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    image
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    man, metric is weird
  • Odradek said:


    It occurs to me that this song might actually be racist.
    yah

    white privilege is acknowledging that it may be racist, but listening anyways and not really caring deep down all that much.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Odradek said:


    It occurs to me that this song might actually be racist.
    yah

    white privilege is acknowledging that it may be racist, but listening anyways and not really caring deep down all that much.
    White privilege is nice sometimes.
  • i mean, that awful fake jamaican accent + the music video together have some rather unfortunate complications


    but it's not quuiiiiiite enough to get me to dislike it?
  • edited 2013-11-01 21:30:11
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    keep in mind it was the early '70s and attitudes towards race have changed since then

    obviously it's cultural appropriation, and it's certainly fair to question whether that's permissible

    the song seems pretty innocuous to me
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday

    It's about time

    No pun intended
  • White privilege is nice sometimes.

    yeah ngl
  • that song may be a perfect example of something that is offensive but not malicious.
  • edited 2013-11-01 21:33:16

    like, when my dad lived in cannon falls there was this dude, my dad's landlord, virulently racist guy.


    I still really couldn't bring myself to dislike him.

    that song may be a perfect example of something that is offensive but not malicious.

    you hit the nail on the head there.

    also it's like the only calypso song i can think of done by a white dude.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    My family's old landlord liked my dad until he realized he's married to a white woman

    Then he started being an asshole about everything

    #yntkt
  • My family's old landlord liked my dad until he realized he's married to a white woman


    Then he started being an asshole about everything

    #yntkt
    and here we have an example of something that is both offensive and malicious.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    The Calypso Carol was written by a white guy, does that count?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    My family's old landlord liked my dad until he realized he's married to a white woman


    Then he started being an asshole about everything

    #yntkt
    that's foul
  • (*high-pitched, whiny drawl*) the corruption of the white race
  • (*high-pitched, whiny drawl*) the corruption of the white race

    that's it that's the entirety of Appalachia
  • do you know what i just realised


    i have heard nothing of ann coulter or glenn beck in aaaages


    that makes me happy
  • I think Glenn Beck moved to The Woods to escape Obamacare and got eaten by a bear.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i hate how naive i am sometimes

    i'm far too easily shocked by bigotry
  • so it turns out my heartburn meds are over $300.

    suffice it to say I'm just gonna have to deal.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Uh, guys

    Could you be a bit more sensitive because, you know, I'm half-black and all
  • I don't think anyone here has been trying to say that any of this is like, acceptable.
  • edited 2013-11-01 21:46:49
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^^ that's got to be a rip-off

    maybe look into over the counter alternatives?  you might be able to get something that'll alleviate it, at least

    ^^ sorry
  • I don't think anyone here has been trying to say that any of this is like, acceptable.


  • Tachyon said:

    that's got to be a rip-off

    maybe look into over the counter alternatives?  you might be able to get something that'll alleviate it, at least

    no, it's one of those things where a company has a copyright on the actual compound used to make the medicine. I looked it up.
  • that's fuckin bull

    (*commiserations*)
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    But still, saying things like "white privilege is nice sometimes"...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    that's fuckin bull


    (*commiserations*)

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