@dundereloise Gonna start using this, I love how it's self-referential
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Nixaveee ⏸
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semantic rape: nonconsensually expanding a word's meaning to get what u want
"Transexuals rape womens bodies by reducing female form to artifact" - J Raymond
Thats not what rape means!
Redefining words for rhetorical gain is selfish. I didnt consent. Stop semantically raping me
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@_StevenFan Some of us find a metaphorical parallel between the twomeanings.
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you can learn a lot about a person from what they think CNC means
tautologer@tautologer
you can learn a lot about a person from what they think CBT means
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@AlexMalice80197 @Aella_Girl Bay Area Rationalism would probably be best described as a subculture.
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@Aella_Girl anyone agrees or disagrees with Wikipedia's assessment; the fact that there exists a Wikipedia page for "Rationalist Community" is the important signal here): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationali… .
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If your threshold for something being a religion is 1. Learning in community, 2. Practicing a skill, 3. Applying this skill outside of the community, then by this metric most hobbies are religions. Which, sure, if we broaden the definition of religion to include knitting, why not
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This is still so funny to me. Classic rationalists!
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@trobuling @Aella_Girl The technology to go to space could not have been developed without the myriad of scientific discoveries made in 19th and 20th centuries.
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@Aella_Girl Technology got us to space.
Science helped.
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@Aella_Girl Imagine if someone who was into knitting said, "I consider someone a Knitter if they've read Ultimate Knitting vol. 1-8 by Alice Bob and make an effort to use knitting in their daily life; attending Knitting Club does not a Knitter make." Makes the club sound a bit cultish, no?
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@ZyMazza @FleekFuturist The problem is that the word "religion" often has a derogatory/pejorative connotation to atheists
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@1demerith "I just got introduced to misandry and my life is forever changed"
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I just got introduced to the acronym ABCD — Anyone But Cis Dudes — and my life is forever changed.
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@tracewoodgrains I'm not comfortable with it, but I'm also not comfortable with the alternative
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@YouHitYourHead @keysmashbandit "It doesn't have an issue with the halting problem"
Um, yes it does.
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@keysmashbandit Ya but the brain can also compute non-Turing complete functions. It also doesn’t have an issue with the halting problem.
Brain is advanced computer?
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brain can simulate a universal turing machine and thus all computable functions and so it's a computer. not very interesting unless you're stupid so let's all stop talking about it
Lewis 🇺🇸@ctjlewis
the brain is literally a computer and there are a lot of people who deny this for some reason.
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@Aella_Girl 2nd quartile light is really outclassing the 3rd quartile light here
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@Ad_Astra_simul @ibxtoycat >cottagecore house
Theres a word for that, it's "cottage" /lh
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@ibxtoycat I just hope they don't sacrifice the theme of the End just so people can make a pretty cottagecore house in what's supposed to be an eldritch dimension that you aren't supposed to be in.
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My Biggest theory about why an end update is a hard sell is that although a bunch of the community want "end update" the truth is that they're all asking for very different things.
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@tracewoodgrains That's not a limit of LLMs, it's a limit of Claude's sycophantic fine-tuning
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@ScribblingC I'm not sure I'm even correctly visualizing what you're describing
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Remember that trend where you'd draw a woman character at a 3/4 angle and make the camera facing boob a shade darker, and everyone started spewing blood because the human race has its priorities in order?
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@Kajel96536401 @JayElHarris I think some of the descriptions on the right are in the wrong order?
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@JayElHarris Martha Nussbaum is a feminist philosopher that tried to break objectification into different criteria (that others added too) and argue there's a spectrum/different forms of objectification that can be more or less bad or even okay depending on context. Even if you don't fully
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@AtomicErectus @leo_the_rat @fujobrain @LinkofSunshine There were four people "involved in the story": John Lotter and the three people he killed. If you exclude the three victims, that leaves only Lotter himself, and it makes no sense to say "everybody" to refer to one person. He was clearly referring to the victims as well.
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@leo_the_rat @fujobrain @LinkofSunshine But that is physically and grammatically impossible, as the trans person was already dead. These people are so desperate to be outraged, they will warp their own brains to do so.
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its actually insane how badly this joke aged ngl
It was about "Boys Don't Cry", where a trans man was outed, raped, the sheriff refused to prosecute because he thought trans people deserved it, and then murdered
People even boycotted SNL for this in the *90s*
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@Radi0_Dev @Mogswamp It's impossible to place a block so that it sits on a lilypad, because lilypads are in the bottom of their block. Lilypads with flowers would have to be implemented as a variant of the lilypad block
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@Mogswamp I feel like the easiest solution would be to add cactus flowers to lillypads and just rename “cactus flowers” to “flower blossoms”
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