The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • My dreams exceed my real life
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  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i like Pearl.  Between "who's your favourite gem?" and "It's Over, Isn't It?" i feel like she just keeps on getting better and better.

    i feel more conflicted on Snape, but i remember finding him an intriguing character.

    i think the difference for me is maybe that we've seen a lot from Pearl's PoV, and we've seen her in all kinds of situations and moods.  We always see Snape through Harry's eyes, and both are very hostile towards one another.

    Well, there's that as well: Pearl is obviously fond of Steven.  Snape regarded Harry as lacking in any positive characteristics, and looked out for him out of a sense of duty, not out of genuine fondness.
  • edited 2016-09-11 15:54:25
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Pearl's a very complex character whose passions and attachments and sorrows pull her in all kinds of conflicting ways. Ways that are both endearing and fascinating.

    Her projecting her own self-hating values on Connie completely unknowingly but earnestly was incredible. She caused a bad effect, trying to do a good thing, with nothing but good intentions.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    You know Less Wrong has been desperately trying to do damage control for Roko's Basilisk for years, and it will never work, but when you get right down to it, the really embarrassing thing is MIRI.

    Like Eliezer openly runs a "charity" based on the idea that people need to give him and his foundation money so AIs won't turn evil. That is an open fact that everyone, including Eliezer, would acknowledge, and it's absurd.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    tbf i know i've seen MIRI made fun of as well

    but i think people sometimes conflate that with the basilisk?  so it becomes 'give us money or the AI we're building will torture copies of you', like some kind of weird blackmail
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    tbf i know i've seen MIRI made fun of as well

    but i think people sometimes conflate that with the basilisk?  so it becomes 'give us money or the AI we're building will torture copies of you', like some kind of weird blackmail

    I mean it is blackmail

    Eliezer made up a fake AI doom scenario and he wants people to give him money to stop it. Roko's Basilisk adds time travel and simulations into the mix, which were all already present in Big Yud's world view, they just hadn't been put together like that.
  • kill living beings
    Odradek said:

    image

    nice.

    also for a second i confused robert owen and richard owen, a notoriously crotchety biologist of the time, and that was confusing
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/were-cavemen-more-civilized-millennials

    Nobody seems to remember when THEY were Kids These Days
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    rock n' roll
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i'm like 99% sure Joseph Pearce has never met, nor spoken to, a 'millennial'
  • 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
    Windows 9 Bird Edition
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Windows 29 Cow Edition
  • I'm in my pyjamas, in my bed, listening to heavy metal at twenty to ten at night.

    Am I adulting right?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I do that every night, so...

    ...the answer is probably no
  • I really need to get up and brush my teeth, but that means getting out of bed
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    the most difficult thing
  • fight. dream. horse. love.
    So just now I was lying in bed nodding off and a bunch of things happened at once;

    - I found myself unable to move
    - it felt like someone was pulling my braces out

    I thinkle it might have one of those really vivid short dreams I get, but I also didn't *feel* like I was asleep?????

    not alarmed, just weirded out
  • ^^ teeth are brushed

    ^ I had a very similar moment when it felt like I was floating and was watching myself sleep, and I was unable to move
  • 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
    Not having coffee today was a mistake
  • Odradek said:

    You know Less Wrong has been desperately trying to do damage control for Roko's Basilisk for years, and it will never work, but when you get right down to it, the really embarrassing thing is MIRI.


    Like Eliezer openly runs a "charity" based on the idea that people need to give him and his foundation money so AIs won't turn evil. That is an open fact that everyone, including Eliezer, would acknowledge, and it's absurd.
    ah so this is how his descendants will become emperors of California.
  • So just now I was lying in bed nodding off and a bunch of things happened at once;

    - I found myself unable to move
    - it felt like someone was pulling my braces out

    I thinkle it might have one of those really vivid short dreams I get, but I also didn't *feel* like I was asleep?????

    not alarmed, just weirded out

    congratulations you have night terrors

    Bring it up with your doctor I guess? I think they make medication for that.
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Or maybe sleep paralysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

    I have that myself from time to time.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Listen...
    There's another national anthem playing,
    Not the one you cheer
    At the ball park.

    Where's my prize?...

    It's the other national anthem, saying,
    If you want to hear-
    It says, "Bullshit!"...

    It says, "Never!"-

    It says, "Sorry!"-

    Loud and clear-

    It says: Listen
    To the tune that keeps sounding
    In the distance, on the outside,
    Coming through the ground,
    To the hearts that go on pounding
    To the sound
    Getting louder every year-

    Listen to the sound...
    Take a look around...

    We're the other national anthem, folks,
    The ones that can't get in
    To the ball park.

    Spread the word...

    There's another national anthem, folks,
    For those who never win,
    For the suckers, for the pikers,
    For the ones who might have been...

  • 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 favorite phishing emails are the ones that claim I need to give them my password so they can upgrade my University email account to 2 GB of storage.

    My University email account has 50 GB of storage.
  • spoiler alert if you fall for it you get downgraded to 2 GB
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    However, if you answer the e-mail by giving them someone else's password, you get a golden axe
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
  • Golden Axe is the only beat em up I can recall enjoying.

    We have it on our 360 for some reason?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I've played the arcade and Genesis versions. They're both pretty all right. I always play as the amazon chick
  • Couldn't really get into Golden Axe. Streets of Rage 2 is more my thing tbh.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    SoR 2 is better, yes.
  • punch a face in the face with a little kitty paw
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Do you not

    Do you not

    really
  • They're actually all his, Odradek is secretly omnipotent.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    cow at a typewriter
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    (It's the long one)
  • cat on keyboard

    or possibly spidertroll
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    That's a nice story.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    It's by Karl Capek

    He coined the term "robot"
  • Went to the University library today.

    The campus was full of Freshers.

    *hisses*
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    why do you hate the freshers so much? are you an antifresherist?
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I am happy today.  I've been picking Raspberries out in the sun.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    YOU were a fresher once, Toolsie!

    i kind of miss being a fresher. >_>
  • 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
    I had the experience of transferring to a four-year school after I'd already gotten an associate's degree

    So I was new on campus but not technically considered a "freshman" because I already had enough credits to qualify as a junior

    It was all a bit strange
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Odradek said:

    The Peter Parker character traits include: his full name is Peter Benjamin Parker; he is Caucasian and heterosexual; his parents become absent from his life during his childhood; from the time his parents become absent he is raised by Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City; he gains his powers while attending either middle school or college; he gains his powers from being bitten by a spider; he designs his first red and blue costume; the black costume is a symbiote and not designed by him; he is raised in a middle class household in Queens, New York; he attends or attended high school in Queens, New York; and he attends or attended college in New York City.

    I think maybe they have one of these for Dr. Strange too, and that's why Benedict Cumberbatch is doing an American accent for that new movie
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