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[tedks @_tedks]

@breaking2morrow @inflammateomnia Vibe universe

[jp @inflammateomnia]

Vibecamp tabernacle
In a clearing in the forest, open to the trees and sky. A quiet place for people.
We're building it this year, together, barnraising-style, all week
Come find us and help out

[The Count of Monte Sisqó @_Billdozer_]

@EnemysEverywere @jakebrodes they are basically hostile to life

[John Robb @johnrobb]

This video is one of the best empathy triggers I've seen. It's on par with the George Floyd video.

https://t.co/0iXlx2uyos

Packetized media delivers empathy triggers straight to the information stream on your smartphone.
This delivery mechanism slips past the resistance most people have to triggering an involuntary empathetic response that causes the viewer to feel what the victim feels.
If the empathy trigger is framed by tribalism (as was George Floyds and this one), this empathetic response forges tribal kinship (fictive in the sense it doesn't require a blood relation) with the victim and turns the attackers into existential evil (they want to kill your relatives and you as well).
If a large number of people tribalize in response to a trigger, it can spawn a network swarm...

[tedks @_tedks]

In SF they would hotbox the BART cars with meth. In NYC, a homeless guy will light up a perfectly normal cigarette and prop the door open with his foot to ventilate the car. Truly a different world. Don't bother that man. Maybe deal with the meth if possible or just add doors.

[banana @francine_pefko]

lol sure.

cry all you want but i'm not the grown man looking for the police to put out a cigarette

[tedks @_tedks]

@tracewoodgrains I like saying Trace it reminds me that for all our differences we're still united by our love of Xenocide

[tedks @_tedks]

@akarlin Say what you will about the prose of TTW, but Zoltan was right about "ethicists" (as were most of that era)

[tedks @_tedks]

Reading an Ayn Rand book is like trudging through the winter of the political takes. Feeling the cold seep in through your felt boots as you trod through the commentary. But finally, a tall man arrives, and spring is come! Among other things.
And we all have other things.

[tedks @_tedks]

If the Whites had won the civil war, Ayn Rand would have just written weapons-grade smut, probably kickstarting the romantasy genre and quite possibly independently discovering the omegaverse, very likely with significant implications on global TFR.

[tedks @_tedks]

@captgouda24 If you want to be really non-controversial you'd write one about the Russian famines using internal Czarist and Soviet data

[𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗝𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗘🧃@VC5 @arcanejuice]

A24? More like CIA24. Am I right chat?💬

[tedks @_tedks]

@Navier_Tokes Not as hard smut as I think she would write without the ideology layer grafted on. What if the whole point was the smut? What if Rand thought of herself as a writer fundamentally focused on human eroticism rather than the philosophy of freedom?

[tedks @_tedks]

If the Whites had won the civil war, Ayn Rand would have just written weapons-grade smut, probably kickstarting the romantasy genre and quite possibly independently discovering the omegaverse, very likely with significant implications on global TFR.

[tedks @_tedks]

I'm not sure if it would be up or down. Rand obviously didn't like settling. But this is a much hornier timeline.

[tedks @_tedks]

@wheezyair Everyone yearns for their home biome.

[tedks @_tedks]

@heyellieday @1thousandfaces_ Vegan run next up

[tedks @_tedks]

Ayn Rand's forewords are so annoying but the first actual sentence always goes hard

[bayes @bayeslord]

(thread)

Intelligence

We are in early takeoff. AI improving AI may end up being one of the most consequential steps of history. This isn’t certain because we don’t know how far from the physical and computational limits of intelligence we are, though I would bet it’s quite far from where we are today (e.g. ~5-10 OOMs more intelligence output per unit of scale seems possible).

[tedks @_tedks]

@manic_pixie_agi I have never had printing not just work on GNU/Linux.

[tedks @_tedks]

@manic_pixie_agi The problem is you're not using GNU/Linux