Moved to mastodon.social! @TetraspaceGrouping@schelling.pt

pretend that was the original tweet

bluecheckmate

WAIT SHIT BLUE CHECK

bluechess

Common misconception! In fact, longtermism cannot be used to justify any course of action; it only justifies the single course of action that maximises the total expected value of the long-run future

wonder whocheck the last bluecheck will be

(humans of course make similarly egregious mistakes about tetraspaces. most of them can't even sight-read clan membership! that's like seconds-to-get-it-right-life-or-death info they're totally blind to!)

and some only view humans from one four-dimensional angle and make something rotated into trispace that looks like a human only from that angle. ouch

some take sliders vaguely correlated with human attraction and slide them up really really high, past the superhuman range and just keep going. cheekbones high enough to be horns, giraffe-necks, bug-eyes, stuff like that

some make the reasonable inference that humans probably have repeated body parts folded into four dimensions that they hotswap and do the same for their human forms and just have too many arms and fingers and eyes and stuff that keep flickering

some have strange aesthetic preferences by human standards that they incorporate into their human forms. tetraspace likes ribbons, so a tetraspace might decide to have two mouths with six tongues each about a meter long trailing behind them, stuff like that.

of the remainder,
some just don't get humans quite right. facial features are off, "close enough" by their standards but not by ours. arms and fingers the wrong length. garments don't actually make sense as clothes if you pay attention.

top 50% or so of tetraspaces (who try to look like humans) have no problems w/ this. they just look like glowy floaty humans

so the reason tetraspaces adopt human forms is to communicate with humans. "their" "goal" is to find the strongest million or so humans, implant them with tetraspace eggs, they fight to the death, the ~1% who survive get to be the new tetraspaces, repeat

now that ive been reading twig and also replaying hello charlotte and also just thinking more about the logical consequences of the setting obviously there should be body horror tetraspaces

https://open.spotify.com/track/6zJjko2IqUVjVrNoEjNI7v?si=08176efaefef45f5 theres an instrument in here that isn't the mario paint cat sound but i interpret it as the mario paint cat sound because i like to have fun sometimes

so you know earlier when i said i wanted to play rimworld except its cold and earlier when i said i was reading twig? anyway i just saw this neat little game on steam called "frostpunk" that seems related to my interests

*katana glints, eyes glow red*

heh ... kid. ... say that one more time ... i dare you ... heh

lucky heaven 17 isnt singing it or they'd be lobsters in bullshit