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WHY IS SHE IN ADVENT OF CODE 2020 DAY 7 HELLO?!?!?!?!?!

framing / intuition device that makes you think on the margin. like maybe:

An alien cames to earth and, while it can't do much due to intergalactic law, offers a bar of gold-pressed latinum (worth $1,000,000) to further humanity's development. What does the alien spend it on?

hm thinking of tetratopian history

specifically i need an order of warrior-monks who take all the drugs and use all the mental tech and dye their hair white and have pink contact lenses and call themselves idk Quattrorums or something

not because they're rationalists - rationalism is natural, it occurs wherever there are aristocrats to set up the incentive structures - but because they want to have a fun time

this mortal vessel i find myself in cannot contain this much desire to read

hey man. me and my wizard friend saw you from over here and it you look like you have a lustrous orb. very ponderable. wondering if you would be interested in

@rip_imho also to clarify i'm coming at this from an arcane background, if you're divine or natural i think it works broadly the same way but definitely a good idea to check with your god

@rip_imho now next step - and this is also what the flask help you with - is just before the bones you're transporting reach the prime material you collapse the whole mana tunnel and pull it back, and re-key it from conjurative to necromantic. proper circles help a lot with this. 500 gp of directed mana capacity should be enough to ensoul the skeleton you've just summoned if it's not too scattered, and BOOM! your own undead, now try sending it some simple mental commands :)

@rip_imho then once you've done this bootstrap up to key your mana to the plane itself its time for some classic telekinesis - yeah its through the Magevoid but the principle is the basically the same, its DC mana so this just works. use your favorite tunnel stabilisation pattern to keep law+ operating, i prefer two-loop countervorticing because it's self-stabilising but i have high mana reserves and don't need to do it that often so YMMV

@rip_imho so first up your material component is a vial worth 500 gold, that's the focal point of your summoning, filled with bone dust. this is basically used for telling your mana "find the nearest source of bones", which if you're doing an order-whatever dimensionalist conjuration that constrains it to be extraplanar (see the tome Sarvarius et al, 3015 AT, available in many towers) is gonna be the plane of bones

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Modulo how offsets might not be a good idea because either way you get a higher consequentialist score for just doing whatever's best anyway [I did not count my climate offsets for this year against my consequentialist 10% for this reason] and animal offsets are even less pan-ethical than eg climate offsets because carbon is fungible and animal lives might not be

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Wonder what the deontological yearly animal offsets are

UK per capita meat consumption is 32 kg poultry, 25 kg pork, 18 kg beef, 4 kg mutton, 1 kg other land animals (ourworldindata.org/grapher/per), 20 kg fish (ourworldindata.org/grapher/fis), for a total of 32*-40 + 25*-30 + 18*2 + ~5*-20(?) + ~20*-100(?) = ~4000 welfare points (forum.effectivealtruism.org/po) per year, ~5000 per non-vegan adult.

1 chicken life = 2 kg chicken = -80 welfare points, so saving 60 chickens offsets this. £60/yr to ACE top charities?

@rip_imho dont worry there's a ready supply in the Elemental Plane of Bones

the EA donor lottery for example works for more newtonian reasons but it also works because it's concentrating my wealth into a smaller measure of possible timelines, so more good is being done by me across the whole multiverse

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this reminded me of a joke website idea I had a while ago, where, if vivaldi's four seasons were to be stretched out across an entire year, which note would be playing

subjectively seems like more charities are talking about giving tuesday this year compared to the last one, wonder if there are stats on the matter

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