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  • but I like cow girls, not cat girls

    in the transbovinist future u can have both
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    naney said:

    It didnt seem to me like he was saying that men and women are inherently different, more that the way we are socialized differently creates problems


    which is something I would agree with
    i would also agree with this, but this stuff about 'men are not optimized for this, women are not optimized for that' is a weird way of putting it, if that's what he's getting at

    and this paragraph is completely melodramatic dystopian SF gibberish:
    Odradek said:

    I find it all too easy to imagine a world in which men retreat to their optimized sweet sexy catgirls, and women retreat to their optimized darkly gentle catboys, and neither sex has anything to do with each other ever again.  Maybe men would take the east side of the galaxy and women would take the west side.  And the two new intelligent species, and their romantic sexbots, would go their separate ways from there.

  • naney said:

    Tachyon said:

    i may be being uncharitable

    i think the 'gay couples are statistically happier' thing is an interesting observation

    IIRC gay couples are also somewhat more likely to break up after a certain period of time and the members of said couple are much more likely to remain on friendly terms afterwards.

    i dont remember what study this was from though, but it seems true from both my personal experience and my observations of other queer people
    see the thing is that he's implying that this is both 100% true and also bad.
  • Tachyon said:

    naney said:

    It didnt seem to me like he was saying that men and women are inherently different, more that the way we are socialized differently creates problems


    which is something I would agree with
    i would also agree with this, but this stuff about 'men are not optimized for this, women are not optimized for that' is a weird way of putting it, if that's what he's getting at

    and this paragraph is completely melodramatic dystopian SF gibberish:
    Odradek said:

    I find it all too easy to imagine a world in which men retreat to their optimized sweet sexy catgirls, and women retreat to their optimized darkly gentle catboys, and neither sex has anything to do with each other ever again.  Maybe men would take the east side of the galaxy and women would take the west side.  And the two new intelligent species, and their romantic sexbots, would go their separate ways from there.

    I think this is mostly a function of his personality, which i would not hold against him.
  • Odradek said:

    Why are you falling asleep on a river bed in Thailand

    because I'm an Action Bronson lyric
  • also im like 98% sure that that paragraph is the plot of an anime
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    I'm actually with Odradek here.


    What gave it away for me at least was use of the word "optimized" which indicates he thinks there's some weird evolutionary thing going on.
    optimized is a weird word which makes the people he's talking about sound like robots

    i don't think there's anything here to indicate this is evo-psych but i wouldn't put it past him, either

    naney said:

    Tachyon said:

    i may be being uncharitable

    i think the 'gay couples are statistically happier' thing is an interesting observation

    IIRC gay couples are also somewhat more likely to break up after a certain period of time and the members of said couple are much more likely to remain on friendly terms afterwards.

    i dont remember what study this was from though, but it seems true from both my personal experience and my observations of other queer people
    see the thing is that he's implying that this is both 100% true and also bad.
    i don't think he is, i think he's saying it's regrettable that straight couples aren't equally happy
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    naney said:

    but I like cow girls, not cat girls

    in the transbovinist future u can have both
    groovy
  • Tachyon said:

    naney said:

    Tachyon said:

    i may be being uncharitable

    i think the 'gay couples are statistically happier' thing is an interesting observation

    IIRC gay couples are also somewhat more likely to break up after a certain period of time and the members of said couple are much more likely to remain on friendly terms afterwards.

    i dont remember what study this was from though, but it seems true from both my personal experience and my observations of other queer people
    see the thing is that he's implying that this is both 100% true and also bad.
    i don't think he is, i think he's saying it's regrettable that straight couples aren't equally happy
    yeah
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    naney said:

    Tachyon said:

    naney said:

    It didnt seem to me like he was saying that men and women are inherently different, more that the way we are socialized differently creates problems


    which is something I would agree with
    i would also agree with this, but this stuff about 'men are not optimized for this, women are not optimized for that' is a weird way of putting it, if that's what he's getting at

    and this paragraph is completely melodramatic dystopian SF gibberish:
    Odradek said:

    I find it all too easy to imagine a world in which men retreat to their optimized sweet sexy catgirls, and women retreat to their optimized darkly gentle catboys, and neither sex has anything to do with each other ever again.  Maybe men would take the east side of the galaxy and women would take the west side.  And the two new intelligent species, and their romantic sexbots, would go their separate ways from there.

    I think this is mostly a function of his personality, which i would not hold against him.
    fair enough
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    HP:MOR still sucks though
  • the only thing I have in common with Yudkowsky is that we both liked this one Haruhi fanfic about a coin.

    Even then, I hated the ending.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    naney said:

    also im like 98% sure that that paragraph is the plot of an anime

    in retrospect i think most of lesswrong is that
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    the only thing i have in common with Yudkowsky is we're both boring nerds with no sense of curiosity, an overly literalist and black-and-white perspective on the world and an obsession with self-improvement

    i may be more self-aware than him, but i'm not terribly self-aware so i can't be sure
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    the only thing i have in common with Yudkowsky is we're both boring nerds with no sense of curiosity, an overly literalist and black-and-white perspective on the world and an obsession with self-improvement

    i may be more self-aware than him, but i'm not terribly self-aware so i can't be sure

    Nope
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    the only thing I have in common with Yudkowsky is that we both liked this one Haruhi fanfic about a coin.


    Even then, I hated the ending.
    Yudkowsky like Existential Comics. Nothing makes sense to me anymore.
  • Tachyon said:

    the only thing i have in common with Yudkowsky is we're both boring nerds with no sense of curiosity, an overly literalist and black-and-white perspective on the world and an obsession with self-improvement

    i may be more self-aware than him, but i'm not terribly self-aware so i can't be sure

    well, you are not an asshole. which is the important thing.
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    i try not to be an asshole

    honestly though i think Yudkowsky is to me sorta what CWC is to CA, in terms of making me anxious about myself

    only CA is much, much smarter than CWC, whereas Yudkowsky is definitely smarter than me in certain respects
  • That makes sense.
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    to clarify i'm not saying CA is like CWC

    i'm referring to how CA found CWC unsettling in a my-faults-writ-large kinda way
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    http://hpmor.com/notes/119/
    If Big Yud wins a Hugo, sci fi is dead as a genre, and I will constantly repost all the articles about genre fiction being infantile
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Karl of Say No To Life is my friend, and I want to be just like him and read his sage words every day
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    oh did you hear about the controversy with the Hugos this year?  kind of weird and depressing
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    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Odradek said:

    http://hpmor.com/notes/119/

    If Big Yud wins a Hugo, sci fi is dead as a genre, and I will constantly repost all the articles about genre fiction being infantile
    Haven't the Sad Puppies given you a good enough reason to do the latter already?
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Yes, it was garbage for insight wankers
  • edited 2015-08-02 02:03:57
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    @Tachyon: We both said the same thing at approximately the same time, heh.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Odradek said:

    http://hpmor.com/notes/119/

    If Big Yud wins a Hugo, sci fi is dead as a genre, and I will constantly repost all the articles about genre fiction being infantile
    Haven't the Sad Puppies given you a good enough reason to do the latter already?
    Yes, good point
  • you're my wife now dave
  • conclusion: Edinburgh gay bars are kinda meh
  • who plays lmfao in tyool 2015 srsly
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    My favorite thing about LMFAO is that "Running through these hoes like drano" is apparently such a good line that Red Foo saw fit to use it in two separate songs.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Wiener isn't even trying

    Also this attitude leads to a bunch of people majoring in that stuff expecting an easy a, and then they get their asses kicked.
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    literary theory was the hardest part of lit/creative, and the theory 1 module was incredibly stressful (for me)
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    It doesn't involve as much calculation or memorization, so idiots who can only do those two former things think it's easy.
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    and philosophy makes lit theory look like a walk in the park, though i suppose it would be easier with a good tutor
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Just lost my Eden streak of 19 in BoI: R to something entirely avoidable, if annoying (Crazy Longlegs, like others, are why I dislike the Cellar). I think that run pretty easily had winning potential, though the fault was all on me. All that aside, I can now say I've given the idea of playing for streaks a fair shake, and gosh are they boring.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Stingray is tasty.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Maybe I'll get some for lunch later.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Odradek said:

    My favorite thing about LMFAO is that "Running through these hoes like drano" is apparently such a good line that Red Foo saw fit to use it in two separate songs.

    See, I think "rise to the top, no led in our zeppelin" is a much better line that is halfway-clever.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I don't like beef
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    hooray!
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Truly this is a joyous occasion.  Let us celebrate with a tofu party.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    But seriously, glad your internet troubles are over
  • My dreams exceed my real life
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