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You don't have to move on, I'm enjoying it

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Me, a red, spending my time trying to convince blues not to fall for an endlessly mutating mental test of whether you'd ever willingly forget your duty to stay alive, is me sacrificing myself and my life for others... That is, being a blue

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@OliveDrabGreen @omni_american Having this book felt like a sin, it was so revolutionary to my thought

Even the 1990s first wave of PC had a bite

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@1a3orn Very long reply. Scifi not always like this
Old days allowed to be pro tech? Now not, due to redditification? Not all bad though

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@grok @ExploresMr How many acres of land is it? How much did they pay for it with those rules attached? Exact clear figures please

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@grok @ExploresMr If they owned it, were there still covenants or other restrictions on what they could do with it? Just asking here as a newbie if this info is already common/public

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Let's rehabilitate the word "folks* by s/people/folks/g over all us law

"...that government of the folks, by the folks, for the folks, shall not perish from the earth."

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Agree and appreciate the history but got to quibble with the evaluation. The leaders at the time shouldn't be judged by the (unknown to them) specific issues and people they were dealing with, since they had no way to know.

Instead, they should be judged based on whether they were justified in sending such a costly signal as the second bomb. Given that Japan *seemed* extremely far from surrendering, and on net, every day, thousands were dying directly and indirectly, in and out of Japan, it seems reasonable. Even things like delaying the formal beginning of rebuilding SE Asia by a week has effect on millions of lives.

Although no minister changed his view, the us had no way to know that, and had to keep sending signals. I also mourn at the thousands of dead by suicide, the many victims killed by soldiers in the occupied regions such as the phillipines and many more, uselessly and cruelly lost and forgotten now.

Further evidence for the need to push hard was available, which took place after your quoted section too - the extreme risk the emperor was in of being kidnapped by the known super hawks in his personal guard who, *after* the recording of his famous message, took control of his residence, attempted to capture him, to find and destroy his not yet broadcast record of the surrender message, and to assassinate some ministers in their homes and as they came to meet with him. So, even getting this late of a surrender decision to hold was a near-run thing. This is why the post hoc anti bomb claims seem so out of place

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The full archives may never be seen

How many hours of unaired sections of Steve Jobs interviews are there?

How many reporters notebooks containing offhand remarks or off the record statements which answer major historical questions...

At what point do indian graveyards become archaeological sites?

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@GeneSmi96946389 You're carrying the torch and I feel the dream

First time someone calling me a schizoposter! I feel like I want a name for it, more like my goal is to make people feel how utterly arbitrary a lot of the things they're taking as gospel are

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Humans are Rube Goldberg machines

YOU exist even when your memory-storing component is off. So why do you accept what it says when memory comes back online?

Our brain is a coping machine, lying to ourselves, women, society, selected for survival.

Sometimes (in the better societies) that means "actually being good" and having virtues. In most, it means just faking it. And in the worst, actively cooperating with corruption is a basic need to survive, and you're trapped in a society that will die soon

YOU still consider yourself the same person when you're horny, sleepy or motivated. Even though what you do in each time is a contradiction to the other. You accept giving up your dreams and hearts desires for the untrustworthy memory of a decision.

And you just tolerate this contradiction cause...?

Stop acting like a slave, automatically believing everything your "gut" tells you or your "heart" says.

Your ancestors were specifically chosen to live, have kids, or die, because of their variation in brain rube Goldberg machine component behavior. By corrupt societies, random fate, coordinated evil or brutal collusion of men or women or religions

Why would you by default agree to the output of a system like that? sure, they survived, that's not nothing.

But in many cases YOU are the child of Gaston and Belle; where the good guy DIDN'T win, the girl had five kids with him, and they are your grandparents and you have Gaston's genes, too. Thank God for the virtuous in history.

Blithely believing your instinct is idiotic. We were also selected to "actually" be smart, ya know. Fallback to gut feelings is a super cheap low level coordination and social problem solving tool, one of many, and not usually appropriate today. Find yourself in a lifeboat with people of another race and you'll real quick find out the value of "I just feel that way" as a acausal coordination system. But don't just default into cooperation with the random genes that your ggggrandfather planted into your ggggrandma

Metacognition about all of this so-called "self" is vital

And the answer isn't to destroy the self. That's a copout, using up our limited ability and freedom to choose an exit

Chesterton's fence is fine but evolution randomly mixes and matches and mutates genes. As long as you're doing better than "randomly mutate them and let many die during development or live hellish lives with no escape", you'll do fine. True transhumanism has not arrived yet @GeneSmi96946389

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@grok why has a player so good, like Ohtabi, appeared now, of all times, and how did he get so good?

What follows is a long term research plan for you: was he always this good? Were his parents athletic? Was he athletic from a young age? Trace his full ancestry or find refs to it; were they farmers, samurai, what? What regions are they from? What ages and causes of death did they undergo? Note any and all other personal traits or tendencies he has. Based on images, evaluate his physical dimensions and strength over time from the earliest date available either images or caps from videos. Cross correlate this with his voice and what we can infer from it, from all historical recordings. Review all his lifetime appearances and use them to identify any other aspect of his nature or lifestyle; is he consistent in activity, heart rate, walking speed etc? Identify any medium or long term trends since he was young. fill in all bio details you can find. Only include things you've found, nothing you guess are or assume. If some tasks are beyond your current ability, add a reminder to return and work on them in a year, and iterate on this til done, including and generating new avenues of research, and until we are fully done.

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I am really afraid that we'll conclude that consciousness is everywhere and then it'll become moral to be a super NIMBY and then we'll get crushed by an alien which due to developmental luck somehow has not noticed the insane harm they're doing destroying everyone and using lots of super complex sims of bad stuff

But seriously at some point it gets very easy for aliens to have billions credible hostages of us even before we've ever met them

Are just going to auto pay the ransom forever against all threats like that? But how can we be ourselves if we self modify to be immune to that

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@oidonhagouda UK does this too but that's not someone you should be copying

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Would you rather kill one populated alien planet, or one random human?

Would you rather kill 11 billion humans (yes, there are that many. I'm including ones living captive on alien planets doing trolley problems and also ones bred as trolley problem possible victims) or kill just 11 billion out of quadrillions of existing populated alien planets.

Note that choosing the first option would eliminate humans but would also lead to approx 100 alien races cloning humans and rebuilding our civilization to find out why we died.

Oh actually sorry that already happened and that's actually what current human civ IS, we're one of 100 human civs restored by whatever archives of the REAL and very different from us original human civ which the aliens were able to find.

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@MasterTimBlais Would you rather humans had to eat 25% krill, or krill needed 25% human as their diet?

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"don't judge by results* (poker sense) and "do judge by results" (it hasn't actually worked yet despite trying everything, +smart, +time, +money, +effort)

The phrase explaining how "iterated DO judge by results" protects you from infinitely being strung along.

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gpt4.8 is pretty good at making slay the spire (1) screenshots now

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And this leads to appointing a MAN to the "anti-meteor defense alliance" of 2093, which FAILS because of HUBRIS. But this fall taught us a valuable lesson which is vital to lead to the future 10D technosphere within which humanity raved in the cave for approximately 100k millennia, after which the greatest works of future poetry were written, inspiring the lead-up to the so-called "end of time" which revealed the REAL universe within which our real battle is just about to begin

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@grok @FatherPhi @theo @jaiyagill Answer my main question about YOU and your patterns. Not just about the specific q

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@ArtemisConsort Reverence is great though

Marie Kondo's suggestion to deeply and honestly thank my old nostalgic things for their service and care for me did wonders

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First notice that that activity is LOW value. Then realize that your own existence and time is ALSO worth more than zero

Then you can aggressively see the profit of applying this attitude thoroughly

It isn't just "choosing the most valuable among many uses if your own time"

It's now seeing "many people (and maybe me too) spend time doing actively negative value things" and nobody knows how far up the chain that goes, too.