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bringing back this classic

@demonlistgd i didnt know bloodbath difficulty levels are still top 4 on modern pointercrate, guess the game hasnt changed much since i quit

super probably level has been raised from the Legacy List to #4, above Tidal Wave and below Amethyst. This pushes BEELINE into the Extended list and Sky Shredder into the Legacy List.

@Polterghast this is ignoring obvious strats like bribing the creator or robtop to update the level

@Polterghast seems like a ~1% chance of dying is worth a 99% chance of generational wealth, and my family will get so much more of their lives back in expectation that it dominates any sublinearity in utility(years of free time)

An omnipotent deity comes down from the heavens and offers you 100 million dollars for beating a randomly picked rated geometry dash level in 24 hours. If you fail, you (and your entire family) die. Would you take the bet?

This by Scott Alexander is excellent, and it strikes me as a normal pattern with conservatives in the Trump era. 1) Your side is morally awful 2) To make your side seem more defensible, exaggerate or make up traits about the other side. So if you discuss Trump's lies and corruption, they'll pretend that Democrats have had comparable levels of corruption and dishonesty, which is so disconnected from reality it is a sign that a person's entire informational environment is deeply corrupted. In this case, conservatives don't show basic concern for foreigners and non-humans, even at the level of "don't torture and kill them." Instead of acknowledging that's their view, they pretend like liberals only care about foreigners and would let their children starve in order to give a chicken a higher quality of life. When obviously, if you look at liberal priorities, they're spending a lot more time trying to give fellow Americans healthcare than fighting factory farms or increasing the foreign aid budget. This particular conservative trait seems to be most popular with techbros and the angry anonymous twitter accounts they all look to for spiritual guidance.

@EgemenPamukcu hint: 998001 is 999^2 what does 1/999 look like when you write it out?

There better be a really good reason for this

@JolPinton26633 i havent been posting much lately, so it's both

@rucibear not seeing ur tweets on the feed, algo is cooked

i wouldnt say it's quite 100% sterile, but when i deem a woman off limits (eg shes taken), i mentally compartmentalize well enough that any friendship-jeopardizing feelings are suppressed before im even aware of them

@Allodoxaa i dont see this as being that far off from moral realism (if reformulated as there existing objective aesthetic judgments), which a majority of philosophers also believe and has defenses that arent patently stupid, even if theyre wrong imo

also no reason to believe someone who would become an egolord over being #250 in the country wouldnt become even more of an egolord being the best at their local high school and mogging the grad students in their dual enrollment classes at university of missouri

the only reason the rebuttal to this might not reduce to "just dont do it if you dont want to" is college admissions, but changing the meta to having high schoolers take grad level courses and publish research is surely even worse

i dont think i wouldve gotten into math if it werent for olympiads. competition is fun

TC: 630k

こんにちは！ここでは、伝統的なアメリカのアートと、海を越えた新しい友人たちの「アニメーション・スタイル」を融合させてみました。これから先も末永く続く、私たちの友情の証として！！

@raw_gd this level was briefly a free demon in 2015

(2014) cant let fly by Samzzx2YT

@haugejostein same argument

you've joked about a spherical cow, but have you thought about higher multipoles of a cow, thus the tetrahexacontapole cow, and the octacosahectapole cow? (figure showing 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128-pole cow, and the full cow)

Here are some triangular words

@mouseytakes oh im sure it works often, im just in awe that it does. glad it pans out for you

@rucibear i’ll bite since i was doing this last week i dont rly like the girls i know and the risk reward is pretty asymmetric went on a date with a random girl i approached, had a decent evening, and got to meet someone new. will probably not take her on a second, but it was fun

cold approach feels so adverse on multiple levels that i cant wrap my head around how a woman would ever accept

@mouseytakes thats where the adverse selection is relevant, as if the guy is attractive, you kinda have to wonder why hes asking random girls and hasnt settled with someone he has more color on in his life. im half shitposting but i think theres a grain of truth to it

@rucibear Attraction is carnal anyway; everyone accepts that. It works because if you are attractive and the girl knows that, you've satisfied the baseline requirement for dating (which usually happens to be the biggest one), and the rest is now a personality test

70-80% of my interest in object-level contemporary events and politics can be explained by my interest in knowing whether spy goes up or down next week

do not confuse my interest in how people form beliefs and arguments with an interest in politics