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@tomieinlove agi is impossible because the universe can't generate the amount of smugness needed if the rationalists were right

@kendrictonn can we just pretend not to doomer?

@noworkfunction I'm pretty curious where this all ends up sorting out re: that. Sometimes I'm optimistic, sometimes I think we'll be the last generation who cares

Was working on writing the Japan book when I abruptly fell asleep for three hours, and now I don't know who I am or what century it is

@MostlyMonkey dude looks like he"s enjoying his best life

In 1975 this was considered comically obese. It still is, but it was in 1975 too.

@GolerGkA @eigenrobot oooooh, that would be a nice change of pace

@eigenrobot Third new thing. Or may be Ukraine

is something happening this weekend

@FridgeMM @eigenrobot I want to finish iran properly so bad

@eigenrobot Practically speaking we ought to spank Iran again but I bet it's Cuber.

@midmagus @eigenrobot last time I was down there a few years ago during haiti bbq it was helicopters

@eigenrobot There were fighter jets buzzing Miami coast this afternoon. Not a regular thing

@eigenrobot bored*

@eigenrobot i hope so, i'm board taking the family for camping at my friend since 4th grade's farm this weekend he fought in iraq, would be cool to have some breaking news to discuss

@moultano @ByrneHobart I still pronounce it wrong in my head and then have to take two beets to remember the correct pronunciation

@ByrneHobart x.com/moultano/statu…

I bet the number of these words you’ve mispronounced at some point in your life is a great measure of your academic intergenerational mobility.

@ByrneHobart omg it's not missed opportunity

@ByrneHobart I knew banal was going to be on there is macabre? that one has always been crazy to me

I don't really need to lose weight, if I lost more than like 10 pounds I would probably look thinner than I would want but I would like my free will back, feeling more in control, accomplishing things, making better choices, actually choosing to do things I tell myself I want to do I want to experience life like teenager/college me again to whatever extent possible is there some microdose I might try?

retatrutide has not fully eliminated emotional eating impulses and at one point I realized that I was wondering if it was possible to figure out how to out-eat the drug bc I was stressed and couldn't think of anything but food or vaping to help but! it is a lot easier to ride out a behavioral/emotional/psychological-content compulsion when that's the only component that's firing harder when appetite is also basically online 24/7 and available for the compulsion to recruit it is also somewhat helping with ocd-like patterns and compulsions, which I've usually been able to either conceal or otherwise manage, and I'm not totally sure what the full story is, but one interesting aspect is the way it's changed my conception of time before, things would go feeling/perception->impulse/compulsion->buildup of pressure until behavior was engaged in, which included a lot of internal dialogue and negotiation and narratives. To get over bad habits without major environmental changes, I've always had to have some kind of motivating story to give me enough momentum/keep me trying the thing long enough to acquire referents that allowed me to undermine the bullshit arguments from my appetite stimulants mostly helped me lose weight or stop nail biting because I was motivated to do other things, but under sufficient distress or discomfort, my weight outruns Adderall just fine retatrutide has done *something* to the way the passage of time, the memory of the passage of time, and the anticipation of the passage of time seems to behave for me? tips like "drink a glass of water and wait thirty minutes to see if you're actually hungry" did not work for me, it's like I didn't fundamentally believe in time, most of the time but now I have a stressor, then an impulse, and then I can kind of "play through" what will happen if I follow the impulse, including the part where it doesn't actually fix the problem or make me feel permanently okay lol Adderall only approximates this by expanding my capacity to simulate a continuous thing over longer amounts of time, which yes does sound like the same thing but I promise it's different. anyways a bunch of stuff that I did not realize was ocd-ish or otherwise hooked into a similar process is now "coming up for review" I feel like I have Free Will and that's pretty cool

@eigenrobot I'm not even sure seemingly slam dunk charity does net good after all knock on effects are considered including non-charitable things that could also be done with that money

amusing but i think the underlying data exclude private charity and if those numbers are included i have to imagine the figure looks somewhat different whether you think private or public charity is more meritorious for a nation is probably instructive as to your worldview

@adarshsolanki @moultano comparative advantage

@moultano you have to also pay someone a living wage to deliver it to you so you can keep watching streaming slop

Seeing $28 lunch floating by on the feed made me wonder if I was out of touch, so I checked chipotle around here, not a cheap area. Burritos are still $10.50, and more food than I can eat in one sitting. What are y'all doing?

@Eggsbert_ I'm already rich enough

@noworkfunction It's just 30 seconds tho

Easiest yes of my life

@MostlyMonkey I just looked up the prices of a car I wanted as a kid, an honda S2000, and they are selling for half that now, twice original msrp

What are the most fun cars out there in the ~150k or below range nowadays? I had my eye on the f type a few years ago, but they stopped making it. Small points for practicality if it's a sedan, but I can live with a 2 seater.

@HotForMoot @Reboticant God I wanted that car so bad when I was ~16 when it first came out

@Reboticant Omg car doxed 🫣

This lights been on for a few weeks what do you guys think it means

@ouranometrian2 "I feel sad" >omg if you ever have thoughts of self harm call the suicide help line!!!!!

Both claude and grok freak out to much about medical stuff. Kind of annoying

@feelsdesperate blu-skee front and center

Mamdani is unlocking levels of performative narcissism from a municipal politician that were previously unthinkable.

@bryan_caplan the jackass married professor that had an affair with my friend in college

Who is the least despicable person whose hand you would refuse to shake?