/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/rape-victim-became-hooked-on-drugs-after-attacker-gave-her-free-mdma-trial-told-1-9370234
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 >>/5439/
>  would not have consented if not for MDMA 

>  Free MDMA then addiction.
{thunk emoji}

bay ayran drug and cuck rope culture totally unrelated

are you all just broken jews?

 >>/5384/
> I hope the rapist will manage after being ostracized (but not prosecuted) by the friends of his victims

> 13418
(editor's note: any sex that women later regret was rape)

 >>/5739/
That doesn't seem to be what happened in this case.

 >>/5728/
Wage slavery isn't slavery, it's serfdom.

 >>/5726/
*looks at the second image*
I must thank my racist and egoist impulses I guess I never gave a shit about EA.

 >>/5731/
Do you work a full-time job? If so, then you're pretty much in the same boat as them.

 >>/5732/
Yes but my life is a lot worse and my job is a lot shittier. It seems altruistic people in general have it on easy mode.

I don't know if my life would be very different. I already don't work a full-time job, play lots of autistic games and practice sports. Maybe I would work on enjoying socialization more, since more interesting people would be available for it.

 >>/5554/
Sounds like bad life planning, especially if your kids would be low-agreeableness rationalists like you.

 >>/5558/
Low-agreeableness doesn't mean no-loyalty.

 >>/5558/

Everyone benefits from everyone else being selective retards…this is one reason why we can't have nice things in any society.

 >>/3984/
I would if I could, I'm an infertile tranny.

 >>/5714/
Stem cell synthetic sperm?
https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_96139

 >>/5656/
> You can still practice effective altruism within your system, by finding the most efficient way to help people sufficiently similar to you.
The most altruistic thing I can do according to my own system of ethics is to fatten my own bank account, so it looks like I'm already an effective altruist. Good to know. Next time one of you guys starting preaching to me I'll tell him this.

 >>/5671/
That's just effective, not altruism.

 >>/5671/
Yeah, you're really stumping the cucks by defaulting to base selfishness like every other fat idiot.

 >>/5675/
This, but unironically. Altruism towards people who resent it and wouldn't reciprocate even if they could hurts you and those like you. Base selfishness is far healthier.

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 >>/5594/
The rational way to escape is not to have been conceived by two ignorant selfish assholes who were too poor to allow their children a shot at a decent lifestyle.

Try the lottery?

Harold S. Geneen probably wouldn't recommend the management path for you personally. Nevertheless, you might wanna see what he has to say about the nature of clawing your way up out of the calamity you were born into, so *if* you get hit with some good advise about what you should be doing, you will fucking get out there and get to it.

 >>/5703/

> We're talking about an American cultural issue. Pointing out that that issue doesn't exist in certain other cultures doesn't help. It exists in that one.

> This is not a discussion about slavery in general. The discussion can be generalized, but you'd have to generalize it by talking about signaling and cultural norms in general, not by talking about slavery in general.

I have to talk globally because that's the only way to remove the log in the eyes of SJWs. What you described is better explained by cognitive diversity instead of by slavery.

One of my favorite examples is that of Trinidad and Tobago. Please explain to me why the fuck the descendants of indentured Indian servants are doing much better than the descendants of black slaves who were freed before them?

> This is what was meant by "segregation" in that context, and what would broadly be understood to be meant with the word "segregation" in that context:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation

> You seem to be using another definition to derive a meaning that has nothing to do with this discussion.

I remember that there used to be a lot of discrimination against Japanese folks in America, including sundown towns. However they are doing well. Apparently racism had negligible impact on them.

Instead of saying underperforming tropicals are fucked up because of muh ebil whitey, here is my hypothesis: They are fucked up because their ancestors never learned intensive agriculture and the civilized way of life. They don't have either the genes or memes necessary to do well in a modern civilization.

 >>/5703/

If you want to ask me what my opinion of underperforming tropicals is, here we go:

They are a global liability of humanity.

 >>/5704/
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 >>/5707/
Your posts aren't naturally related to the rest of the thread.  >>/5704/ and  >>/5704/ appear verbatim in a post on another website from a week ago.

You bring up the same topics in all your posts in every thread you post in. That makes it hard to discuss other topics.

Can you start a separate thread for your posts, especially about race and (the non-existence of) morality, and keep them out of other threads? Then people who want to talk about it can seek you out there.

(I think this is warranted, but tell me if it isn't.)

 >>/5708/

Sure! I will start a new thread on the Tropical Question (TQ) so that in the future all TQ-related discussions should preferably be in the TQ thread.

 >>/5702/

 i sincerely hope you get your wish to be eaten by a bear, as you would most certainly find right by way of might.

 >>/5668/
> it's real
It is.

 >>/5660/
Checked

 >>/5668/
Yeah, I was thinking about fast vs slow boards a little. For example, why was I writing an effortpost when part of its thesis is "effortposts are a weak strategy"? One answer is that I'm an adaptation executer and not a fitness maximizer, but I can also tell you I wouldn't have bothered if I didn't expect this thread to be near the top of the catalog for weeks: impossible on a fast board.

I also kind of ignored thread-opening strategy. For me it's high effort with uncertain reward, but as you and other anons have identified there are plenty of efficient openers. I think that fits with my general hypothesis.

(You)-efficiency = (You)s/effort
(You)-efficient posting strategy -> becomes part of imageboard culture
Not (You)-efficient -> doesn't
(You)-efficient, but also like/upvote/retweet efficient -> disappearing from imageboard culture in 2018

 >>/5673/
Oh, I also hand-waved anonymity earlier, but I think it fits neatly into the (You)-efficiency model if we replace "effort" with the more general "cost". Some strategies have a real-life social cost without anonymity, and some even have a within-the-community cost under pseudonymity.

Why is /a/ so shit?

 >>/5684/
normies, ree.

 >>/5682/
There's one piece of information we don't have

Tits

 >>/5581/
Gender/species preference could be something from a furry porn site.

The passengers are the ones that deserve death. They're the ones that opted to get into the car.

 >>/5577/
> 0 is the global average
Shit chart. Is the global average leaning towards saving the passengers or saving the pedestrians? If they wanted to lay out the chart like that, it would make much more sense for 0 to represent no preference in either direction.

 >>/5584/
Agreed, but I imagine for the Chinese it's more like "MY car is supposed to protect ME, fuck the unwashed peasants who couldn't even afford one".

 >>/5582/
wild > pets

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Psychiatric drugs are one step removed from witchcraft in terms of reliable efficiacy. The variation from person to person makes advice difficult.

As a starting point, you could try sertraline - it killed my crippling anxiety stone dead and replaced it with mild depression. Not a bad tradeoff.

Make sure you read the dosage suggestions for everything you try - I doubt dosing only in advance of social situations will do you any good in the long term. Again, side effects and effectiveness vary wildly from person to person, so perhaps do a trial with each medication you have access to and see what works best?

Note that I am not a psychiatrist, and am in fact only barely more qualified to talk on this subject than a neurotypical layman. For better advice (or at least a second opinion), I recommend r/slatestarcodex's weekly "Wednesday Wellness.

It's a cold world out there, anon. Good luck!

Thanks for your words and your suggestion. I've never had a reddit account but I've lurked /r/ssc in the past. Didn't know about that recurring thread.

what should I read for attachement theory ?

 >>/5611/
Aaron Swartz was extremely fond of Becoming Attached, which is currently sat on my bookshelf unread.

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Not even once

 >>/5638/
What is "mythic mindset"? Is there a rationalist boat house? Post-rationalism and tulpamancy should be ideologically aligned with monogamy, though for somewhat different reasons. Being more traditional is one of the post-rationalists' defining characteristics.

 >>/5642/

I think anon means https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/HnWN6v4wHQwmYQCLX/mythic-mode