ouch.

we think that apparent distinctions like this are more fluid than they appear, in the long run, but we broadly agree that there's a choice in the present moment

Getting iced out of the lesswrong community when i realize that everyone just puts the "I'll respond later" react on my posts and doesn't actually respond later

edit: i honestly think the thing with Lesswrong is that they want human interactions to be wholly devoid of uncertainty and implications, thus making those interactions computable... in that regard i respect their efforts here but i think the detailed reacts are going to be used for memes, jokes, implication, passive-aggressive behavior, etc. in defiance of its intent

Sigils that require memorization and reference by anyone outside? are they just going down the cult checklist

with zero posts, only ever reacting "I already addressed this" to every post and refusing to elaborate upon it

LessWrong is what happens when you try to insulate yourself from cognitive biases so much that you end up accidentally falling prey to all of them unintentionally

🔪👀 I Wish I Hadn’t Seen This

i write fanfiction with more nuanced double meanings than they seem to think capable for a human in any conversation. words don't just mean one thing!!! sometimes i very much intend for them to mean more than one!!!!

LessWrong: Where humans go to fail the Turing test.

"taboo your words"??? Legitimately what does that mean?

there's some astute comment to be made here about a purportedly ultrarational community putting such an enormous priority on emotional impressions (like "unnecessarily combative") but I'll let someone else make it ~Chara

this reminds me of the scientology tone scale

imagine being like this, all the time. exhausting

I love the dual impulse of "we'll use a scarecrow icon for strawman arguments" and "we can't just put 'strawman argument' here, we have to describe what that is".

But then! I would've thought "additional questions" meant "I have additional questions", but with an elephant next to it, I'm leaning towards "that doesn't answer the question, it just raises additional questions" with the reference being to "it's elephants all the way down".

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the fact that you put Ophiuchus/Serpentarius as the "secret [number] thing" fills me with a greater love and appreciation for eggbug, thank you

'post hog' is wild

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🚣‍♀️ oceans have become battlefields

this post always is something i kinda want lol