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Common mistake for nontechnical people to think trans women are disproportionately interested in functional programming. Actually they're mainly interested in categirly theory

@79exoX @AndyMasley Yeah, would love to see this in further context! Has electrical power | Has cell phone | Has internet etc.

@AndyMasley Roughly a third of humanity doesn't even have Internet. Being able to both use and benefit from AI is a great indicator that you're in a relatively privileged position.

I'm a little confused about why more people haven't caught on

@captgouda24 It's to expose the Ephraimites, who can't speak proper Hebrew

So I just landed in Canada — why do they insist upon having two words, one misspelled, on all the signage? Seems like everyone would understand it spelled correctly.

Today I learned the "5 Whys" methodology: Call an all-hands, appoint yourself meeting leader, scream WHY!?!?! at everyone 5x, and tell them it's their job to figure it out themselves (via email)

@DMCSnake_ @atlanticesque Says a lot about historical family clan social structures that “Honor your parents” comes earlier than “Don’t Kill” in all versions

@atlanticesque Really buring the lede making "thou shalt not kill" number 8

One of the all-time great Wikipedia charts

i'm not quite sure when it happened, but pinterest interior design is pretty much all AI generated now. feels like there's now this huge gap between the photo you want and what you can find someone to actually make irl

@JeffLadish @Ferbin08 i don't think you've truly internalized 'claude code solve everything'

@Ferbin08 honestly that might be too many

Dating docs are cool and all, but why aren't people using Claude Code to build elaborate date-me websites?

[THREAD] 1/ On Friday, the Syrian Transitional Government (STG) announced it will recognize certificates issued by the Autonomous Administration, a major step for the region's education system, which operated for years without recognition from Damascus.

@UpperCayce @funplings Def higher

@funplings I was just wondering if trans femme’s hit 10% of the population.

this morning my friend said he thought the demographics of vibecamp this year was about 70% male, 15% trans female, and 15% cis female. what do you guys think?

@ilex_ulmus 1000% this Also if someone has Good Epistemics You can be sure that they are Aligned like what the actual fuck

@tomieinlove @funplings i literally snorted ty

@funplings Say you have 10 love. You can give it all to one person, who'd then have 10 of your love. But you can also give it to multiple people, say, 4 love to one person and 4 love to another. And then 2 love to a third who doesn't really matter that much

i dont understand polyamory. can someone explain to me

deadass he's right though. 6 zillion replies objecting and not a single simple "oh honey"

@juliarturc @slash_rei_slash no! everything is nicer and prettier in that world! and status games get weird sometimes but ideally cozier too!

@slash_rei_slash "taste is a zero-sum game" is such a good way to put it. there is no universe in which everybody has taste, because then nobody has taste

can not agree with the mission here: once codified, everything will become the next slop, same with all the anti-slop skills in early 2026. "taste" is a disguised zero-sum game powered by "distinction". especially in 2026, from digital world to physical life, everything just converged to "tasteless" average so quickly.

@mark_bikes @bending_michael @captgouda24 why don't you think so? seems like a classic case to me, following the intution of lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nS…

@bending_michael @captgouda24 i don't think this is an example of berkson's paradox

The thing about rationalism is that the more rationalist a person is, the more interesting they are, but conditional upon being a rationalist the relationship completely flips

I think this is wrong. The basic form of conflict is "You have wronged me" "No, I did not" which is fundamentally an epistemic argument, so it is about truth seeking. And many objective tools exist! Video, eyewitness testimony, etc. The issue IMO is that in many cases the objective tools we have are either of insufficient resolving power ("he said, she said") or far too costly ("do you *really* want to drag this through the courts") and thus due to social transaction costs most personal conflicts can't get settled. We also have a set of secondary tools, such as character judgment, appeal to authority, etc which are also used in first-rate real science. You are probably thinking about the extreme poewr these tools have and the frequency through which they are brought to bear, when you claim the objective lens doesn't exist. But the sciences are sciences because they have developed first rate objective tools, not because their object of study is any more or less about truth-seeking

@TylerAlterman Personal conflict isn’t about truth seeking, and there is no objective lens through which you can examine it.

Genuinely curious, if you self-identify as a rationalist, how do you make sense of this? (btw I personally love rationalists and sorta am one even though I have beef w the culture…for its propensity to make ppl act deeply irrationally)

@VoidNulled @Xre217 @viemccoy oops i just learned i've probably been annoying people with this. can you tell me why you don't like hearing this?

@Xre217 @viemccoy I hate that shit so much.

hate it when I'm trying to describe how something works to somebody and they suggest that it might make a great mechanic for a magic system in a video game. buddy you have no idea

@JonathanDBos @AndyMasley my simple model of this is that there is a roughly infinite amount of work to be done to improve my own life, but it also takes money, and if i have to trade my time to get the money, i can't use the time for myself

@JonathanDBos @AndyMasley definitely the aid! would love to get to the bottom of why you think this is a rhetorical question. in your setup, would the charity give you as much money for free as the factory will pay you for work, or did you have different amounts in mind? if so how different?

The proposed community money cannon that shoots out streams of $100 bills in random directions for anyone to grab does not create many local jobs, so residents are justified in asking what it will do for them.

@rraaaaawwwrrrrr @TylerAlterman meanwhile, effective altruists be like "i read a thing and it was obviously correct, now i'm devoting my life to it"

@rraaaaawwwrrrrr @TylerAlterman every rationalist i know has the origin story of "i heard this phrase, immediately cringed at how socially autistic this was, yet somehow still got sucked down this dark vortex of million word posts, and now i guess i'm postratadj or something"