my current working schema is that storytelling is analogous to a crucial aspect of how our brains and neuroplasticity work, one that serves as an interface for stochastically effecting change
I still remember the evening when the leaks dropped and I saw THIS. Had actual tears in my eyes feeling the sheer weight of Luffy's entire journey that I'd followed for yeaars crescendoing here
the thing that makes buggy such a good character is in a story filled with captains who weave personal narratives powerful enough to have their own gravity and pull people in, buggy helplessly watches as everyone else writes his story for him and drags him along for the ride
i've said this to my friends before but if jolyne and pucci were from different series and you told me that jolyne could negate c-moon by making a mobius strip with her string i'd kill you
Oda tends to determine a character's morality based on intention rather than action which is how you get a very arbitrary distinction between good and bad perverts and what parents are and aren't abusive
watch my hero academia and think "man it would be cool if i had superpowers" because it's less painful than thinking "man it would be cool if i lived in a dorm with my friends and we had teachers who mentored us and taught us things that mattered about helping people"
Jojo antagonists powers are shit like “can atomically deconstruct anyone and anything by coughing on it” and protagonists will have powers like “can produce a single pound of candle wax every day”
And the antagonist is STILL gonna end up on the pavement within the hour
my current working schema is that storytelling is analogous to a crucial aspect of how our brains and neuroplasticity work, one that serves as an interface for stochastically effecting change
2026. Scott Aaronson is teaching a course on Yudkowsky Thought (formally, AI Alignment Theory) in UT Austin. *AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities* is the first assigned reading.
Yud has made it. He's the Marx of our generation.
This implies a metaphysic where people’s wealth and income is pre-political property and an extension of their person that is taken from them, rather than a legal convention we agree to. Someone making 500k net annually off passive real estate is not “disadvantaged” relative to an ironworker making 50k net just cause they are in a higher tax bracket.
The ultimate goal, of course, is ASI: artificial stupid intelligence. By digitally incarnating the pure fool, we will harness jester's privilege and reforge physics
The ultimate goal, of course, is ASI: artificial stupid intelligence. By digitally incarnating the pure fool, we will harness jester's privilege and reforge physics