niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

A condescending buddha

"Let's do something radically non-healing."

“but niplav, isn't that way too meta/coupling?”

“yes.”

similarly, talk about aggressive space colonization could be damaging to the human psyche, because it kindles an emotional stance that does not respect other people or their lands. this is irrespective whether we would encounter alien life out there or not! (i suspect most people can't think clearly about the distinction anyway). it'd be enough if that emotional stance/ideology would do damage on earth.

steelmanning the whole “space colonization ideology is just a new colonialism/imperialism, and just as bad”: let's take domestic robots which display signals of pain when damaged (even though we know that they don't feel pain, because consciousness research was miraculously successful). if there was no moral norm against damaging/destroying them, we would still regard it as bad, because it's harmful to the human psyche to perceive oneself to be causing pain, and that being okay.

we're paving over the reputational ecosystems with beautiful curves whose area sums to one, just watch

wrangling (& getting to work) an RL agent with a friend until half past 2 am. good times

plasmacrane

I expect the future to be more, not less, absurd than ~all scifi. way more—there's no scifi this abstract & absurd, and noone would buy it (& also bc of Vinge's law)

“It's a traditional niplavistani recipe.”
“And what's that weird plushy stuff?”
“Oh, that's really special. Fermented blåhaj fins.”

Wantfinder
transparent hand
Grow at an excellent pace

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