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Virtue ethics is just the bounded agent's cry for a larger t

I think restricting the greater male variability hypothesis to mainly just IQ is odd

If it's true it explains *so much* about why humanity is the way it is

such an elegant compression (I believe it to be true, mostly)

you can't just propose a counterfactual and not state whether it's evidential or causal

where you do() the past to produce it

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I spent 15 minutes showing my wife how to use AutoHotKey to automatically type her office hours schedule into text boxes (since she types that a lot).

Now her idea of date night (grandma takes the kid) is to go to a bar with our laptops and figure out what else about her job we can automate. True love.

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Are dowries just payments ensuring paternal investment by using the sunk-cost "fallacy"?

acquaintance just said that she has *lower* standards for men that approach than for the women she approaches

jives well with the zero (0) approaches during my 1½ hour dg session today :-/

heh I was accidentally hosting the libgeneg copy of Age of Em on my site for a year

Also outer product spaces apparently always only have positive semi-definite elements?

what if ftm is just a *really* strong countersignal? have you ever considered that, Mark?

the correct position on consciousness is the figure-ground inversion of functionalism

mfw Eliezer will never call any of my ideas “dignified”

So I'll be in London from 2023-05-19 to 2023-05-21 (at least)

if any mutuals want to meet up

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If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, “help I’ve been turned into a parrot” you’re wasting everyone’s time.

old.en.wikipedia.org

old.lesswrong.com

old.schelling.pt

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