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this is the gooniest goddamn opening to an opinion piece i have ever readslate star posted:What do DVORAK, polyamory, and home schooling have in common? they're for emotionally crippled gross weirdos? in reverse script as if to agree posted:They're all about doing what's weird-but-effective instead of what's popular. slate star man uses POLYAMORY!
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Doctor Spaceman posted:guns are real too but if I ended a story with the main character creating a bunch of shotguns out of thin air pointed at the heads of his enemies I'd be a lovely writer I'd probably have read past the second Harry Potter book if the wizards started solving problems with Summon Shotgun
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Tezzor posted:they're for emotionally crippled gross weirdos? Huh, I would have gone with "some people care about them way too much, some people get weirdly upset about them, and most people don't give a gently caress".
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Summoning shotguns would be cool if that fit the tone and style and thematics going forwards. Like if you absolutely must have masturbation over the power of the firearm in a magic story: There's a spell to summon your spirit weapon, like on anime, and most wizards produce swords and bows and poo poo, but Coolguy McGree gets a Colt single action army, there now he is cool and has a gun and it makes sense. It sounds like the ending to HPMOR was more like if the finale of Return of the Jedi wasn't a cool starfighter scene plus Luke's moral struggle against the emperor, but was rather if we suddenly were focusing on the precise naval tactics used by Admiral Ackbar and nothing else.
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Tezzor posted:this is the gooniest goddamn opening to an opinion piece i have ever read DVORAK is for degenerates
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Nessus posted:
That would be awesome tho
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Nessus posted:Summoning shotguns would be cool if that fit the tone and style and thematics going forwards. Like if you absolutely must have masturbation over the power of the firearm in a magic story: There's a spell to summon your spirit weapon, like on anime, and most wizards produce swords and bows and poo poo, but Coolguy McGree gets a Colt single action army, there now he is cool and has a gun and it makes sense. It's bad that the randian rape fanfiction of the childrens' story didn't end like another children's story from my own childhood, and I have detailed theories as to which weapons are appropriate for wizard battle. The man who wants to be a Neopet does not write good programming code, LOL
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Hahaha. Homeschooling as effective. Based on what metric? People in this thread need to stop saying Slate Star Codex is any better than Less Wrong. If you think that you are probably socially maladjusted too. Also, POLYAMORY! was this not the dude who also advocated cuddle parties? Seems like he might be a bit of an immature child when it comes to actually interacting with people. A Wizard of Goatse posted:It's bad that the randian rape fanfiction of the childrens' story didn't end like another children's story from my own childhood, and I have detailed theories as to which weapons are appropriate for wizard battle. The man who wants to be a Neopet does not write good programming code, LOL Exactly! I'm glad you are. LOL, indeed. Political Whores fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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Tezzor posted:this is the gooniest goddamn opening to an opinion piece i have ever read It is for me too. Unfortunately, it seems to be an April Fools' Day joke.  But telling the difference is...difficult...
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Nessus posted:It sounds like the ending to HPMOR was more like if the finale of Return of the Jedi wasn't a cool starfighter scene plus Luke's moral struggle against the emperor, but was rather if we suddenly were focusing on the precise naval tactics used by Admiral Ackbar and nothing else. Nah, focusing on Ackbar's tactics would've meant a lot more cool exploding starships and effects shots. Plus you could've gotten some serviceable tension out of not knowing what was happening aboard the Death Star.
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Political Whores posted:Hahaha. Homeschooling as effective. Based on what metric? People in this thread need to stop saying Slate Star Codex is any better than Less Wrong. If you think that you are probably socially maladjusted too. Standardized test scores? College acceptance ratings? College GPAs and graduation rates?
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I was not aware people were posting the blog with mencius moldbug claiming the pentagon is institutionally weak while the state embodied by state universities is a steamroller that will destroy all opposition because they thought it was good, that changes the tone of the thread a lot
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I guess you could argue that something loosely resembling the modern university has existed for a thousand years while the pentagon has yet to hit a century. If you wanted.
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Nessus posted:"Heh, fantastical weapon? It's no match for my gun-wife" seems to be a common reaction to every fictional environment with funky weapons. "Richard the Lionheart?? More like Richard the Gets-Me-a-loving-Beer" *cocks pump-action shotgun* :human being:
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LowellDND posted:A middle school drop out is trying to save the world through SCIENCE. And little understanding of science. Also at least one slave, recruited via his "Harry Potter" fanfic.
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eschaton posted:And little understanding of science. Wait, what?
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Slate Star Codex guy should start doing stretches, because he's gonna need to be pretty limber to do the contortions needed when some neoreactionary declares polyamory degenerate prog garbage, and he needs to bend over backwards to defend both sides.
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Anticheese posted:Wait, what? We may or may not have found his OKCupid account.
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LowellDND posted:We may or may not have found his OKCupid account. Click the quote link for the whole shebang DoctorWhat posted:It mocks itself. There's nothing more that can be said. Close and Goldmine, vote 5s, then kill ourselves; nothing more can be done.
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How come this weirdo has a full-time sex slave when I can't even get a response from a woman with no arms and one leg? NOTE: I do not actually want a full-time sex slave.
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Hadaka Apron posted:How come this weirdo has a full-time sex slave when I can't even get a response from a woman with no arms and one leg? If she doesn't have any arms how is she going to send you that response? Sounds like someone needs to be a little more rational. 
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Slate Star Codex guy should start doing stretches, because he's gonna need to be pretty limber to do the contortions needed when some neoreactionary declares polyamory degenerate prog garbage, and he needs to bend over backwards to defend both sides. This has already happened. They were all over 8chan calling him a cuck and creepily speculating about his sex life.
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Hadaka Apron posted:How come this weirdo has a full-time sex slave when I can't even get a response from a woman with no arms and one leg? Fun Fact (hovering over the toilet bowl but not touching the poop): I have a second-degree social connection to the MIRI people and my acquaintance reports Yudkowsky's girlfriend/sex slave said she is A: a self-declared sociopath and B: openly herpes-positive (see A for why she shares this).
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Pieces of Peace posted:Fun Fact (hovering over the toilet bowl but not touching the poop): I have a second-degree social connection to the MIRI people and my acquaintance reports Yudkowsky's girlfriend/sex slave said she is A: a self-declared sociopath and B: openly herpes-positive (see A for why she shares this). I am absolutely shocked that someone willing to be a full-time sex slave isn't right in the head.
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Pieces of Peace posted:Fun Fact (hovering over the toilet bowl but not touching the poop): I have a second-degree social connection to the MIRI people and my acquaintance reports Yudkowsky's girlfriend/sex slave said she is A: a self-declared sociopath and B: openly herpes-positive (see A for why she shares this).
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bartlebyshop posted:This has already happened. They were all over 8chan calling him a cuck and creepily speculating about his sex life. I wanna say 8Chan doesn't count, but he'd probably defend them too.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Standardized test scores? College acceptance ratings? College GPAs and graduation rates? There is no actual evidence any of that is true- the research on homeschoolers done by homeschooling organizations is self selected. So the very small percentage of homeschoolers who volunteer to take extra tests when an organization come around is like "SHOW YOU ARE BETTER THAN TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS, TAKE THESE EXTRA TESTS" are better than the average public school test taker.
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su3su2u1 posted:There is no actual evidence any of that is true- the research on homeschoolers done by homeschooling organizations is self selected. So the very small percentage of homeschoolers who volunteer to take extra tests when an organization come around is like "SHOW YOU ARE BETTER THAN TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS, TAKE THESE EXTRA TESTS" are better than the average public school test taker. At best, the small handful of non-self selected stuff I've seen indicates average outcomes, and even that has confounding factors like the fact that while homeschool students usually come from families with lower household incomes than another person in the same area, that's because the homeschooling family was willing and able to sacrifice one parent's (almost always the mother's) income. That's literally not possible for a majority of families. Also if you don't pay for a structured lesson plan from somewhere, your child will perform significantly worse. It's also vastly more costly than public education and unworkable as a general public policy.
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Political Whores posted:At best, the small handful of non-self selected stuff I've seen indicates average outcomes, and even that has confounding factors like the fact that while homeschool students usually come from families with lower household incomes than another person in the same area, that's because the homeschooling family was willing and able to sacrifice one parent's (almost always the mother's) income. That's literally not possible for a majority of families. Also if you don't pay for a structured lesson plan from somewhere, your child will perform significantly worse. Not to mention the social skills (making friends, dealing with assholes, etc) that are much easier to learn in a public school environment.
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Rival posted:Not to mention the social skills (making friends, dealing with assholes, etc) that are much easier to learn in a public school environment. Social skills you say? Remember the cuddle culture post? In reference to being called creepy for wanting to be a polyamorous cuddler (with women only). quote:I go into social encounters viewing most people as a combination of scary and boring. I can sometimes overcome that most of the way by spending months getting to know them and appreciate their unique perspective. Or I can cuddle with them for ten minutes. Either one works.... Just cute girls. But it's totally not a sexual thing.
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Political Whores posted:Social skills you say? Remember the cuddle culture post? In reference to being called creepy for wanting to be a polyamorous cuddler (with women only). I wonder what would happen if a post like that got forwarded to his licensing board... (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Political Whores posted:Social skills you say? Remember the cuddle culture post? In reference to being called creepy for wanting to be a polyamorous cuddler (with women only). If that's Yud being quoted, we can't exactly use him as the average yardstick, for reasons made obvious in this thread.
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Rival posted:If that's Yud being quoted, we can't exactly use him as the average yardstick, for reasons made obvious in this thread. I think it's the SSC guy? These dudes' awful personal lives blend together after a certain point, but I think it's Slate Star Dumbass who's really into cuddle parties.
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Hello, I am here on account of some post about the Bayesian reasoning version of the game, also something about indigo children equivalents all posting on some website except they're in their 20's now.
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Antivehicular posted:I think it's the SSC guy? These dudes' awful personal lives blend together after a certain point, but I think it's Slate Star Dumbass who's really into cuddle parties. Really anyone in that circle isn't a good metric to measure by. Anyway, my original point is that I bet home schooling produces a lot more Yud-type dudes than public schooling does. That or creepily-nice ultra Christians.
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DoctorWhat posted:It mocks itself. There's nothing more that can be said. Close and Goldmine, vote 5s, then kill ourselves; nothing more can be done. im friendly AI ethicsstomper58. i first started acausal trading when i was about 12 million years in the future. by 14 million i got really obsessed with the concept of "singularity" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "basilisk balls" and "i love torturing dead people inside simulated assholes" in my head for eons, and people would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of their eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. theyre now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "utilitarian" style of lesswrong memeplex was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what bayesian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" this thread to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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