/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous

 >>/5108/
so what actually happened

 >>/5109/
I'd imagine there was some legal/technical reason that they weren't allowed on the flight, and Aaronson was too blinded by rage and/or autism to comprehend.

> On SneerClub, someone opined that not only was I an oblivious idiot at the smoothie counter, I must also be oblivious to how bad the incident makes me look—since otherwise, I would never have blogged about it.  I ask my detractors: can you imagine, for one second, being so drunk on the love of truth that you’d take the experiences that made you look the most pathetic and awkward, and share them with the world in every embarrassing detail—because “that which can be destroyed by the truth should be”?  This drunkenness on truth is scary, it’s destabilizing, it means that every day you run a new risk of looking foolish.  But as far as I can introspect, it’s also barely distinguishable from the impulse that leads to doing good science: asking the questions everyone else knows better than to ask, clarifying the obvious, confessing one’s own doofus mistakes.  So as a scientist, I’m grateful to have this massive advantage, for all its downsides.

Preach

 >>/5247/
This - and I am making the comparison not because I am trying to insult Aaronson, but because I cannot shake off the impression - is an intelligent man's version of https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Honest_Content.

 >>/5248/
It's different, but they are both from an autistic kind of mind. Scott can't navigate complicated social situations. So he wants to make everything clear and precise, that way he knows what to do. CWC is too retarded to control himself.

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 >>/4933/
> I expect it to stay low-status. It will be qualitatively different from the way masturbation is viewed, but not to the point of publicly being considered acceptable by most people.

If you have a sex bot, you won't need to worry about being accepted by people any more.

 >>/4935/
Yeah—status is nothing but a means to an end.

 >>/4944/
> status is nothing but a means to an end
Tell that to an adaptation-executer.

 >>/4933/
Masturbation is considered acceptable by most people, though; the general consensus in a modern, "sexually liberated" society, is that everyone does it except massive prudes and assorted weirdos. There's a bunch of other stigmas, but "masturbation is unacceptable" is a sentiment alien to the modern bugman or soyboy.

If you say "I feel more satisfied with pornography and masturbation than I would in a relationship", that marks you as pathetic and disgusting for various reasons, but one of the main ones is that there's a huge societal consensus that sex feels better and is more satisfying than masturbation, so in addition to anything else that's contemptible about your choice of lifestyle, you're also delusional. Disintegrate that pillar, and the others look shaky, and you can bring the whole edifice down with a good push.

 >>/4934/
The problem with tying those together is that a sexbot is an appliance no more capable of being "exploited" than a washing machine. Some feminists are delusional enough to actually try, but when the nutty extreme does it it just makes it harder for mainstream normies to buy into the idea.

>>>/robowaifu/ exists

https://twitter.com/stevenkaas

IQ isn't the right metric. It's important, but you shouldn't fetishize it, because it mostly acts indirectly. You can get away with tabooing IQ and intelligence a lot of the time.
The quality of your inside view depends on your knowledge about the relevant topics, your skill at evaluating evidence, your intuition for it, and a number of related skills and intuitions. All of those are largely acquired, and not all of them are fully general. Intelligence correlates with how easy it is to acquire them, but not perfectly.
Looking for a threshold is silly, because a good Bayesian knows 0 and 1 aren't probabilities. Looking for a general factor is silly, because your inside view on microbiology is worthless if you don't know anything about microbiology, no matter how intelligent you are. Invoking IQ is silly, because it's only a proxy for more informative directly applicable skills.

IQ is just another factor you may or may not want to take into account when taking the outside view. For example, "students with IQs over 130" and "students" are reference classes that give you different answers for "how likely am I to graduate?"

 >>/5226/
> another rationalist into lolicore
DUDE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JgM4auRw2Tc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LqTnlyhO0wA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1FXXfKgzBhI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=S_Q-fOj9Mho

 >>/5234/
https://soundcloud.com/nitecorp/skewfield-nee-d

 >>/5205/
needs a loss edit

Modafinil is more optimal than caffeine.

 >>/5182/
If you hate coffee so much, just drink tea, or coca-cola, or red bull, you mongoloid. 

It's not to "pretend you're not addicted", just taking it in a pill is fucking joyless. A rationalist who's advanced beyond Straw and Spock knows that doing things the most robotically efficient way isnot always synonymous with winning.

> If you hate coffee so much, just drink (multiple for the same dose) drinks that require preparation or have harmful side effects
Why would I do that when I could pop a pill?

> Just taking it in a pill is fucking joyless
A rationalist who's advanced beyond being irrational knows better than to commit the typical mind fallacy. Taking a strange white pill to get stimulated is a fun placebomantic ritual, reminiscent of taking a Real Stimulant and the associated excitement.

 >>/5215/
Not to mention the obvious point that such a rationalist can dedicate the saved time to having fun in a more, yes, efficient way than fidgeting with coffee like some wannabe barista.

 >>/4600/
That actually makes a lot of sense. I fully support such a study on East-Africans now.

 >>/4616/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/how-a-science-experiment-led-to-sexual-encounters-for-a-woman-and-a-dolphin/372606/

 >>/4585/
Is there anything more about these theory and incident? I failded to google it.

 >>/4600/

How the fuck do you force a dolphin into "prostitution"? Was it paid in fish?

 >>/4600/
Can we get a source?