A Door on Other Time

Title is from Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories". Handle means "storyteller" in Nahuatl. This'll mostly be about pop culture, linguistics, philosophy, history, and other things that interest me, but also about writing.

[tlaquetzqui]

[tlaquetzqui]

The Axis committed genocide against minorities and invaded foreign countries. The Allies are helping people invade their own countries and are committing genocide against majorities.

That…doesn’t seem better.

[baygeethefirst]

Man in custody after setting off 'incendiary device' outside federal building in Manhattan

A man with a history of anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity set off an "incendiary device" outside a federal building in Manha

[argumate]

I do think it's noteworthy that Yudkowsky rationalism is an infohazard for some people in a manner not unlike Catholicism or similar mind viruses.

[raginrayguns]

actually it's not because infohazards aren't real

[aorish]

as near as i can tell, the term originally became popular on scp, then jumped to lesswrong from there, than escaped into the mainstream through nick bostrom. definitely memetic information but not particularly hazardous

[argumate]

infohazards are real in the sense that gambling is problem: some people are weak prone to compulsive behaviour

[sequel2heaven]

"Memetic virus" here seems to mean "idea." "Deep in the throes of infection" means "believe". Eliezer Yudkowsky came up with an idea, then used arguments to persuade people of that idea, and now some people believe that idea. This is a very normal and non-scary process that does not necessitate the coining of new terms.

[thrown-away-opinions]

Yudkowsky and his assorted AI-orbiting organizations and "thinkpieces" about Roko's basilisk are mostly a danger to people smart enough to understand the surface level of concepts like AGI and the Singularity, but dumb enough to believe that Yudkowsky is an intellectual of any kind, and not just a very confident jackass who likes to run his mouth and built his reputation on titles he gave himself.

It's typically the kind of people who think someone saying a lot of words is the same thing as making an intelligent, rational argument, and then they will simply adopt the stated opinions of any blowhard who does that as objective truth. His arguments amount to fearmongering and finger waggling, but couched in pseudo-academic language and presented from a fabricated position of authority.

Kinda like that guy who claims to have the highest IQ ever, according to some organizations which he founded and runs and all have fancy titles, but no actual accreditation or recognized authority to genuinely back any of the claims or legitimacy of their own activities. Yudkowsky calls himself an AI expert, holds up his self-appointed title from his AI institute which does not produce AI research, and then says some retarded bullshit about the singularity and how we all have to worship AI or we'll be tortured in Sims hell for eternity, and some people assume that he's really an expert and must know what he's talking about, otherwise why would he seem to sure of himself and have a title that says he knows what he's talking about?

[brazenautomaton]

literally the only people who worried about roko's basilisk were people with clinical anxiety disorders. big yud never appealed to it, never used it as an argument, said it was stupid, and told everyone talking about it to shut up and stop wasting time

the reason you think roko's basilisk has anything to do with anything is due to one specific insanely petty Wiki power-editor

I don't even like him or listen to him but it is very very very clear how much of the hatred stems from the urge to punish nerds for not killing themselves, and then ginned up by actual literal communists who cannot ever be held responsible for their actions

[thrown-away-opinions]

He shut down discussion of it on his retarded little forum because he was terrified of it. Literally called it a "cognitohazard" and believed it had caused severe psychological harm to everyone who discussed it and that by discussing it they had unleashed it across time in a way that would guarantee we are doomed to face the AI torture God.

And that's why people actually hate him: He's a fucking idiot who thinks himself a super genius

[tockthewatchdog]

i really think this tweet is onto something

[takashi0]

thats not pretentious at all, that's just the truth

[yokelfelonking]

Children under the emotional age of 24. A large number of them are in their 30's (or older) who never emotionally matured past junior high

[thrown-away-opinions]

Purpose Of A System Is What It Does.

Leftist language is being used for bullying and manipulation posing as intellectualized moral grandstanding because that's exactly what it was designed to do.

[paleo-violet]

Honorary terf post

[flowerlygirls]

tfw you lack critical thinking skills so severely you never figured out til now that the male gender role is their natural state and womens gender roles demand an exorbitant performance round the clock

[thrown-away-opinions]

You'd think this sort of shit would make more of them stop and question what they're doing, but I guess that's why it's actually just plain ol' mental illness, no matter how much they want to pretend it's not.

They insist up and down that they are a male trapped in the wrong body. Clearly, being male should just come naturally, right? It's some innate, quantifiable, undeniable aspect of who they are, isn't it? These women are self-assured enough (or being coerced strongly enough) to go forward with mutilating their bodies and throwing their entire lives into disarray, but when it comes time to act "masc" there's just no instinct there. No innate natural maleness to invoke. They don't even seem to understand what "being male" means or involves for actual men.

Didn't all your gender identity and queer theory prepare you for this? You talked to therapists and doctors and didn't ever actually figure what the fuck you expected the outcome to be, aside from superficial accessories and clothing? Where's all that fucking masculinity you were so fucking sure you had in you this whole time?

They love talking like this shit is solved, settled, and wholly scientific, and that it just makes perfect sense if you aren't a bigot, and then go "I don't understand what manly things I'm supposed to be doing. What do guys even DO? What's the makeup equivalent for dudes?"

[zachronicta]

The UK rape gang inquiry report is one of the worst things I've ever read

[rabbuy7]

There's your antiracism.

[toxiqueblonde]

have Brit parents never heard of Gary Plauche or Marianne Bachmeier? at LEAST 250,000 girls raped, that’s a QUARTER OF A MILLION, more than some entire city populations combined, and not ONE of these parents have done anything about it? not one father, mother, brother, uncle, or cousin? what the fuck? for every victim how many family members does she have? your justice system is a fucking joke and the cops are laughing at your raped daughters and protecting their foreign rapists. and this is just what we hear about. can’t imagine the worst cases get to tell their stories. 250,000 holy shit. the UK is conquered..

voting will not remove them

[inwardhardar]

>Grooming Gang Scandal: 250k victims

>Rape of Nanking: 20k-80k rape victims

At what point do we just airdrop weapons into bongland as foreign aid?

Unbelievable.

[thrown-away-opinions]

We've all been exposed to quite a lot of information about how various countries and cultures were forced into or effectively manipulated into adopting monstrous beliefs. Like we know about the whole historical arc of how Germany came to be controlled by the nazis. We don't condone it, but we understand how it can happen. We understand the mechanisms by which people become parts of cults.

We have never seen the kind of shit happening in the UK where people become so unbelievably ideologically brainrotted on their own that they become outright antagonistic to the suffering of their own people and the collapse of their own country that they'd celebrate a girl getting repeatedly raped and abused as "cultural enrichment" while every normal person, not beholden to this alien ideological parasite, is threatened and abused into being unable to speak, lest they end up in jail for observing and stating the objective truth that the uncontrolled mass invasion happening to their country is getting people raped and killed at alarmingly increasing rates.

And you might think that's the smoking gun, right? People are being forced to believe this insanity, so it's just that the authoritarians are forcing their agenda and everyone who doesn't want to be part of their not-nazi party is being punished and forced into subservience... Except that's not really it. The agenda in question is not misguided glory seeking and revenge against a scapegoat enemy. It is suicidal, self-destructive nonsense being forced through society from every level of power, but also from completely powerless social groups and regular people. People who are not compelled to push this system invader protecting agenda for any reason. They gain nothing and the suffering and harm continues to worsen, but they still go out there every day and seethe about racist chuds and regressive knuckle-dragging racists ruining the country by blaming migrants for... Literally raping and killing people at random, which they are objectively, verifiably, repeatedly doing, and then facing no consequences while also receiving excessive, incomprehensible protections from the government from the victims who are being denied justice.

No despotic regime has ever oppressed it's own citizens to death at the benefit of foreign invaders like this, for no gain whatsoever. The highest echelons of power in this horrendous situation aren't even enriching themselves. They're making shit worse for everyone, losing power to the growing voting bloc of invaders, and still they're lashing out at their own native citizens. Their economy is imploding. They are rapidly approaching the point of no return where their country won't even exist anymore, and still they persist with fighting "racism" of hundreds of thousands of grooming gang victims speaking up about being raped by foreigners.

[tlaquetzqui]

Ironic you bring up Nazis, since in fact we have seen people forced to celebrate their rapists before.

There is a monument honoring the Soviet Army, in Berlin.

This is the Allies. Thia is the UN. Who are the Allies: they gave themselves the name “United Nations” on New Year’s Day, 1942.

The bad guys won World War Two. (The people who lost it were also bad guys. That’s why that war was so fucking awful.)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[yokelfelonking]

You can be a literal world-famous monument and it still isn't enough for some women

[thrown-away-opinions]

You can be 1,083 ft tall and have an estimated value of 465 billion, with an annual salary of 100 mil, and it's still not enough for some women.

[mogwai-movie-house]

Went to have a look at the implausibly high ratings for Nolan's "The Odyssey" over at IMDB, and found over and over again the hundreds of 9 and 10 star reviewers having only one (or occasionally two) reviews to their name:

which would seem to suggest there are bot-farms generating fake reviews to artificially inflate the score. Rotten Tomatoes, too, are apparently removing negative reviews, so we are back to the Captain Marvel days of manufacturing a fraudulent critical and public consensus for garbage movies.

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[morgan5451]

[nonyayo2]

Yes!

[mister-merica]

[funbearer]

[colonelk2]

It's just you.......

[baygeethefirst]

Definitely

[luckylucullus]

[kharmii]

I wish my himbo problem child would learn some of these tricks when he keeps accidentally jumping in that small space next to the dryer (then hissing and biting when I try to awkwardly lift him out).

[anywhoozles]

[tlaquetzqui]