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körpernahe Dienstleistungen :eyebrows_raised:

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❄ has your consciousness been leaked on the æther? step through this gate to find out
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See also “A Chronicle of the Bay Area Cults”, Vol. 2, pg. 773-776.

Meditation™: We Tear Your Reality to Shreds!

I have not looked at pictures of naked robots in quite a while.

I can't stand it when people criticize Scott Alexander, whose knowledge of all things is unimpeded, deity of deities, excelling the Ruler of Gods, excelling Brahmā, fearless in the possession of the four kinds of perfect confidence, wielder of the ten powers, and all-seer with unobstructed knowledge.

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@Effortless@noagendasocial.com You know what's worse than tens of thousands of psychologists and marketing specialists constantly trying to manipulate you into changing your values so that you spend your precious time acquiring money to buy products you wouldn't counterfactually want to buy?

Communism. Communism is worse than that.

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@Effortless@noagendasocial.com You know what's worse than having huge chunks of metal rolling around at speeds so that they would instantly kill you when you collided with them, with average unsupervised humans as controllers?

Communism. Communism is worse than that.

Dang, I sure do hope that the $100 I got from the LW contest incentivizes me to continue to post carefully researched posts, and not fall into a trap where I try to post more but post lower quality

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@Effortless@noagendasocial.com You know what is worse than living in a society that is clearly not living up to its potential, getting stuck in local optima, people doing making globally bad decisions because they don't observe their negative consequences?

Communism. Communism is worse than that.

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@Effortless@noagendasocial.com You know what's worse than all humans falling over dead within the span of 0.4 seconds, killed by a neurotoxin created by an extremely strong optimizer that escaped a research facility?

Communism. Communism is worse than that.

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@Effortless@noagendasocial.com You know what's worse than the fundamental tension that relates from your mind trying to create a self that puts a gap between unpleasant experiences and that created self?

Communism. Communism is worse than that.

I thank twitter for having increased the annoyance of its user interface as a visitor, because it causes me to procrastinate on twitter less

if you become an arhat, there's apparently a pretty good chance you'll be asexual

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