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There's also the thing that many people don't know how to hold frames well, so that people can take them out of their hands and put new ones in in a couple of seconds

*points* here's a huge Hansonian mess
And evertime this happens (it happens all the time), we can ostraisize one person who is involved

It's kind of worrying how agitated this makes me. I guess I have my little communities I want to *protect*, by keeping them small & original. And I'm conflating several things: legitimacy and simulacrum levels and getting-shit-done-ness and cohesion and…

But that tweet evoked in me a strong sensation of *disgust*, that if the hot women join it will all be about intrasexual competition *again*, and if you're doing something important, your goal is to become legitimate. I don't like this at all.

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because that's exactly also the moment the psychopaths start joining: meaningness.com/geeks-mops-soc

and it's also the moment you shed the last bit of simulacrum 1 you had: lesswrong.com/tag/simulacrum-l

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Quoth the raven: "Quoth the raven: "Quoth the raven: "Quoth the raven: "Quoth the raven: ...""""

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@owl
In fact, cathedral is an adjective, the noun is cathedron, plural cathedra

Cathechoron, cathechora, cathetope, cathetopes...

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@Bungler please don’t drag dark matter into this. Dark matter theories aren’t supposed to fool people en masse :comfyeyes:

Advent calendar, but every door contains an alignment paper

Today im reading "Agent Foundations for Aligning Machine Intelligence with Human Interests: A Technical Research Agenda"

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This image is on the wikipedia page for the Falcon Lake Incident as an artist's reconstruction of a purported UFO sighting and I can't stop looking at it

Rejecting the Axiom of Foundation is lindy

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