Magnificent Lemon

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[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@SWPSCO "retain your seed" lol

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@0x49fa98 @SovereignIM It's kind of like weighted clothes in DBZ.

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@woke8yearold Until absolute autonomy you'll want to hire someone smart and trustworthy to help you automate things. Even if you're a savant with AI you only have so many hours in a day. An extra set of eyes and hands that can perceive more things to automate and implement makes you faster.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

These poor boomer midwits imagine this ball of productivity “stewarded” into utopia by a government that doesn’t exist but has the powers of the CCP but if it was led by Living Buddha Dr. St. Rev. Martin King XIV.

No b*tch it’ll be like throwing a burger in the piranha tank

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@ChristianHeiens Until they cry enough? Why stop at that point?

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@woke8yearold Unless you use it really infrequently the subscription is way more cost effective. In my experience Claude chews through API credits way faster than GPT5.

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@0x49fa98 ruined; "YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT" is claude-speak, not GPT.

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@wolftivy I've never seen the point in debating and "defending the truth". If people don't get it intuitively why bother? What does it actually accomplish? Especially now, when these creatures are going to be devoured by machines in a few years anyways.

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@0x49fa98 Turn them into butlers, chauffeurs, and other forms of swanky servants.

[Science Banana @literalbanana]

When people attribute injustice and tragedies of the past to "ignorance," I think this is mistaken in an important way. It's almost never a true lack of knowledge, but rather false knowledge or pretend knowledge resulting from pathological methods, that is at fault.

This is true in the witchcraft prosecutions, in which people were in possession of pretend knowledge about witches - that witches contract with the devil, that they bear a devil's teat, that their spirits can go abroad to hurt people, and much more. Convictions were obtained by pathological methods such as the introduction of spectral evidence, searches for said devil's teats, denial of counsel for the accused, etc.

The causal importance of the pathological methods in Salem is strengthened by the fact that in prosecution attempts in 1692 in nearby Connecticut, when "spectral evidence" and devil's teat evidence was excluded, the prosecutions could not continue and the panic ended before anyone died. The people of Connecticut were equally as "ignorant" about science or whatever as the people of Massachusetts, but did not allow pretend knowledge to kill people. They ultimately insisted on the same honest ignorance that modern courts insist on in excluding most hearsay evidence.

If anything, we are more ignorant now about witches than people of the past, because we don't produce and distribute pretend information about them. And that's a good thing!

It was structures of pretend knowledge, not honest ignorance, that maintained belief in astrology and prevented acceptance of advancement in astronomy. A lot of people STILL believe in astrology, and it is not because of ignorance as such. Ghost hunters of today are adept at misusing technology to produce "evidence" of spirit visitation, within their framework of pretend knowledge. (There is even popular pretend knowledge about the witchcraft panics themselves - the ergotism thing for example.)

Today we are still replete with pretend knowledge and invest heavily in pathological methods for its production and maintenance, to our discredit: polygraphy, all kinds of dubious methods of healing, spooky psychological studies of behavioral priming (also called nudging), mouse butt acupuncture to cure Tourette syndrome, the "placebo effect," "mass hysteria," the vast majority of "cognitive bias," etc. These will turn out to be illusion, maintained by pathological methods of evidence production, and ascribed in the future to the ignorance of our time. But they are precisely the opposite of honest ignorance.

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@RealDianeYap Diane, every problem you ascribe to men is ultimately the fault of women because women chose to give birth to those men. Address the problem at the source.

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@iointelresearch honestly these effect sizes don't look great for the "IQ is mostly genes" position

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@lndian_Bronson Not sure what you mean. What leverage are they supposed to use to "put pressure" on him?

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@wolftivy said more eloquently:

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@kejsarmakten By purple area you mean the ITB Band? If so try to just stop running for a while, as in a month or two. I would avoid weighted leg exercises as well. It can take a while but ITB Band syndrome usually heals on its own.

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@jmrphy Agree in the sense that a T-850 isn't going to lecture you on your moral failings before it terminates you.

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@deepfates all that moss with no shade?

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@jmrphy This is the RW version of tumblr pronouns.

[Sean Last @Sean__Last]

People are not obligated to pay an unjust cost society has imposed on having some view. Of course, the internet also lets people say stuff we correctly discourage. But being able to discuss censored ideas more freely is clearly worth the cost of letting trolls and idiots talk too

[Magnificent Lemon @codenamelemon]

@BennettJonah May not have been in the NASA folks but I think the vibe was around then. Sloppy tech culture traces at least back to Stallman and early unix guys (Ken Thompson etc.)