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@lunarised but saying "X" and "I believe X" are the same thing, right

It is more likely than not that advanced AI systems lead to us all dying prematurely

@ben but i don't know much about this, and it's a good question

@ben My best guess is that they know a lot about how similar contemporary societies (e.g. hunter-gatherers) behave, and that religion is very infused into many activities we consider secular. Those societies are doing worshipful-X instead of just-X.

I'd guess the fandom-forming instinct also exists in many other societies, but there it's channeled into religion. So Funko-pops might be descirbed as semi-religious objects?

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@tef off-by-one powers of two in the factorizations of off-by-one powers of two

@tef i wanna figure out whether this is a statistical pattern now

@tef factors into Mersenne primes but moee often into 2^n+1, which doesn't have a name afaik?

@tef pattern appears a lot in powers of two of powers of two, but not reliable

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just found out the factorization of 65,535 is 3 × 5 × 17 × 257

ffff

the factorization of 4,294,967,295 is 3 × 5 × 17 × 257 × 65537, too

ffffffff

Hm, strange

I am not attracted to men.

I don't want to be attracted to men.

I dont want to want to be attracted to men.

*But* I want to want to want to be attracted to men.

I think this pattern holds for many groups of people I could be attracted to but am not, e.g. trans people, overweight people &c.

Why do my desires flip when I remove the influence thrice?!

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>It was also found that the average online prostitute earns more than Harvard graduates.

@Paradox no worries, it was frustrating more than soulcrushing 😅

@Paradox i mentioned that I'd not had sex in a crazy place before, but I think I didn't quite pass her bar for casual sex or relationship

@Paradox woman whp considered fucking me in a park but didn't :-/

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