@JonathanDBos @NathanpmYoung I'm imagining telling them something like they can muck out the stables, and only occasionally is it a labor of Heracles.
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Grant McKinney
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@NathanpmYoung I did quickly realize that this just meant I needed to write more "challenging" roleplay encounters, where politeness and ingratiation are important or where knowledge has a price, or false information is common, etc. and I don't blame him for playing well!
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@simonsarris Too many guardrails to get a sense of how people act outside them.
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there are some, but I think you have to get near people to really tell
and I think some people *will* become husbandly in future, or under right conditions, but are not yet, and being able to tell that is where the most alpha exists
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nvpkp@nvpkp
@simonsarris there are definitely proxies
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There's a sort of fundamental problem that husbandly behaviors aren't easy to see from the outside, or the "before" world. Maybe wanting this is part of the reason for the decline.
How would you "get" a friend or stranger(!) into a place where they could be husbandly?
nvpkp@nvpkp
@simonsarris how to attract a wife by demonstrating husbandly behaviors
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@LinkofSunshine These were people with known peanut butter allergies?
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There is basically 0 hard evidence that airborne allergies exist outside of extremely rare circumstances
In one experiment, they just straight up held 29 people 3-inches away from a thing of peanut butter and found not a single one had anything close to a reaction
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Someone to curl up on at the end of every day. Someone smart and kind who likes me. That’s it
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@Sanilac_J I guess, normally you'd expect some amount of virality from people shouting at you.
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A similar thing happened last year. I received several emails from readers who had just discovered THE ILLUSION OF DOMINANCE and were sure it was on the verge of going viral--couldn't believe it hadn't already. They thought my pessimism excessive. Naturally they were proven wrong
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For various psychological reasons it's effectively impossible for the average woman to accept the truth about feminine beauty, or even react to it neutrally. This is mainly because they are... 1/n
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@Leo_Abstract @yeroneem @DefenderOfBasic I think it starts off strong then gets less compelling over time. Headcanon that this is because of quantum immortality shenanigans.
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@yeroneem @DefenderOfBasic tragically mid. it, like the necronomicon or the king in yellow, is better as a concept than as a book. i don't mean the idea of anti-memetics, i mean the actual book entitled "there is no anti-memetics division" would be massively improved by not existing.
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people always talk about their crazy reading workloads but I really question if people actually read thousands of page at any point in time
David Porter@huwaliyasuntob
Here's a typical week from the Late Imperial China seminar I took as a first year PhD student back in 2011 (total page count: 1309, plus 616 more for the recommend book) - I'm not sure I can assign more than 10-15% of that amount of reading without provoking revolt
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@DefenderOfBasic Also wait, did I never tell you you're not stupid, could I have ended the annoying self deprecation by saying so? Or do people call you dumb so often it wouldn't have helped?
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@DefenderOfBasic So how's it go if I tell Defender about Defender?
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@DefenderOfBasic I suppose one you might be looking for (not in the sense of trying to find, but anticipating whether someone mentions it) is thorough documentation, so even if you perish or go mad, others may benefit from your sacrifice. Or optimistically, so you notice your own issues.
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@DefenderOfBasic Amusingly, considered mentioning Antimemetics Division when you asked whoever if they'd heard of fnord.
The prompt reminds me of when they used something called a germ, sort of a biological USB drive that they attach for a meeting then dispose of after.
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@dilanesper My understanding of "evidence" is just "information", guessing the angry people think of it as "compelling, unfakeable information".
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This was a response to my tweet that a victim's statement that she was assaulted is evidence of the assault.
Roxy McFly@NorthKoreanPuss
@dilanesper Id love to know where you got your law degree. @IfindRetards
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@Tyler_A_Harper Have no trouble reading "He wasn't actually that good at throwing" as tongue-in-cheek. "He was a fake friend" is weirder.
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There are many gems in the Lindy West book but my favorite bit that people seem to have missed is when she befriends this 7 year old and sweetly plays football with him only for her to realize this *child* is wearing a Trump hat and she’s immediately like “I always hated him.”
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@goblinodds If this happens before doing something you love then you might be able to train yourself to parse the feeling as anticipation.
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im certain ive heard before that you cant like, try not to be anxious, you just have to do things while anxious and then if youre very lucky the anxiety will diminish as u practice ignoring it
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a lesson i have to keep learning is that anxiety is not information. instead of thinking "how should i pass the time? maybe x?" i have to just try x for five minutes to see whether or not i wanted to do it bc my brain just generates noise
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@IsaacKing314 @SilverVVulpes Maybe it's like the thing where everyone hates Congress but likes their representative.
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@SilverVVulpes Main surprise to me was how low "faith/community leader" is.
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they are what I expected. sorry for polling haters but this is what I see when I touch grass. people shit on politicians, journalists and, though not listed here, weather forecasters. people trust scientists and their doctors, and now LLMs, almost on instinct
a caveat is that...
Isaac King 🔍@IsaacKing314
These results are very much not what I would have expected
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Grant McKinney retweetledi
@RegimeEnforcer Course it is. It's always true. That's the point. If you say, "Some small proportion of these people are going to pose problems & we can't tell which ones easily" as an excuse for distrusting all of them, that is always an excuse for doing so.
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That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Nah, still think there's something here. Haven't figured out exactly where to place the line, but things like cultural appropriation are past it, it is simply not worth crusading against.
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Y'know, I notice I'm not spending a whole lotta time talking about lines or how to draw them.
Maybe the frame was a mistake to begin with, because anything bad enough to be a bright line in the first place...should I be thinking of methods instead of policy goals?
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Y'know, when speaking of the need to resist tyranny, people often advise setting bright lines in advance.
Until now it never occurred to me to do the same with advocacy.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
So much makes sense in light of the Tocqueville Effect. As problems get smaller, the attention given to them must grow. This is a personal problem for many, too. Have you ever noticed that activists refuse to claim victory? Many get stuck crusading for life.
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