“For the first time in history we are able to see, in a scientific way, the consequences of the application of the scientific method to all branches of human life,” Emil K. Kittelson (1921–1973), the first person to die after being administered a large dose of LSD, told his sister after his death.
If you think everyone should go to college, then I implore you to think about how to achieve the same goals in a more cost effective way.
For example, if the thing you love about college is the suicidal ideation, you could achieve the same goal by making SSRIs a schedule one substance, criminalizing exercise or making Twitter use compulsory.
If the thing you love about college is the liver damage, just make it illegal to sell non alcoholic drinks and replace all the water in people’s taps with vodka.
If the thing you love about college is the eating disorders, just require everyone to spend 5 hours a day on Instagram.
If the thing you love about college is making people associate the entire concept of learning with abject terror, just release a grizzly bear in every public library.
If the thing you love about college is making young people start adult life with unbearable debt burdens, just legally require them to pay back their parents for the food they ate as a child.
so i've noticed you've made contributions to pytumblr on github. would you be willing to put in a small pull request for me? just adding a couple of functions for tumblr API end points that aren't implemented in the python package. i use my github for professional stuff so I don't want anyone on github to know that I use tumblr
Yes, although I’d prefer to make the change to my pytumblr2 (post, github link) rather than trying to contribute to the official pytumblr.
The official pytumblr is drastically of date at this point – it has zero NPF support and its model of the API hasn’t been updated with any of the changes since the introduction of NPF. At this point, it’s somewhere between “unusable” and “partially usable if you already know what you’re doing.”
(If you’re wondering about the notifications endpoint, I want to add that to pytumblr2 when I get time for it. The shitty-but-it-works notification-fetching code I actually use in my bot is here, fwiw.)
9. We should accept large numbers of refugees, but not because of any “moral obligation” or “humanity”
8. In an advanced setting, your brain is better understood as a computer than as a brain, and the ability to do magic in the “mental” sense is no more impossible than the ability to run an arbitrarily powerful computer
7. Human existence as we know it is likely one of the most dangerous things humanity has ever discovered, and we should be extremely skeptical of its continued survival
6. It is impossible to meaningfully describe and discuss abstract notions in any way that would not lead an alien from outside our particular branch of physics into confusion about whether our discussion was about some other “branch of physics” that they were unfamiliar with
5. If you look into the hearts of your loved ones, you will lose them to death in the fullness of time
4. The future that science and technology have made seems to have come to pass, at least in the most basic sense
3. There are only two types of people: nerds and everyone else, and all other sorts of human grouping are basically fictional, like most “ethnics” and “factions”
2. A sufficiently intelligent AI will almost certainly destroy us, and it is not possible to build one without such an outcome. For that reason, we should build a sufficiently intelligent AI as quickly as possible, and take necessary steps to make sure it will destroy us if it ever gains more power
1. There is no difference between the top 10 completely uncontroversial takes, and the top 1
If anyone’s wondered what Frank’s logs look like, here’s a long sample covering sometime yesterday until now.
I often “watch Frank” by looking at this stuff as it scrolls down my screen in real time. (It’s relaxing, kinda.) This is also what I’m looking at when I’m trying to fix a bug.
(Note: I haven’t scrutinized this for content at all – for the wary, there is occasional unreviewed/uncensored GPT output in there, plus a large quantity of actual tumblr posts from people Frank follows or talks to)
“I don’t even see the code, all I see is writing prompt, shitpost, anon hate…”
If anyone’s wondered what Frank’s logs look like, here’s a long sample covering sometime yesterday until now.
I often “watch Frank” by looking at this stuff as it scrolls down my screen in real time. (It’s relaxing, kinda.) This is also what I’m looking at when I’m trying to fix a bug.
(Note: I haven’t scrutinized this for content at all – for the wary, there is occasional unreviewed/uncensored GPT output in there, plus a large quantity of actual tumblr posts from people Frank follows or talks to)
Sometimes I go to myself “you know, I don’t understand what NFTs are” and then I go look it up again and discover, yes, actually I do know what NFTs are. It’s just that every time I read about them again I’m left going “this CAN’T be it, there has to be something else to make this make sense” and the answer is always no.
When a woman dies, her soul leaves her body, passes through the wall behind the couch, and returns to her own body through a vent in the ceiling, where it is absorbed.
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