i know i’m not the target audience but my god the drudgery of organising ethicalseeming orgies, and consensual rape parties in particular, makes me feel many feelings. something sisyphean but the boulder is made out of gender roles and power dynamics and the slope is made of … libido? the rationalists might well be the people i trust the least in the world to deal with it.
imo one should treat others as ends in themselves, and not merely as means to an end
that is to say, ugh! rationalists talk about your relation to other people without making it about consumption challenge
Our concern is not with the defensive intent. It’s that the form of this particular probe is aggressive in effect, and the party that bears the cost is not the agent (which has no interests of its own) but the human operator downstream whose work the agent destroys if it follows the instruction.
… you think? aw shucks i only wanted to hurt bots
Big syringe
I don’t even know what to say here. Cool scam I guess
Huh, I got déjà vu and yeah there’s this story from a couple months back! https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-replacement-john-schloendorn-aging-longevity/
MIT Technology Review found no evidence that R3 has cloned anyone, or even any animal bigger than a rodent. What we did find were documents, additional meeting agendas, and other sources outlining a technical road map for what R3 called “body replacement cloning” in a 2023 letter to supporters. That road map involved improvements to the cloning process and genetic wiring diagrams for how to create animals without complete brains.
Please don’t let this be the next bubble.
Congratulations bb you’re a bog standard misogynist
“Cerisi” and gender confusion make me think this might be for some reason a machine translation of a generated summary, so like, two layers of slop?
You know, “most of said outfits” was too harsh. I’m gonna rate the outfits now, I love rating outfits!!!
2, 3 and 10 look like men you should run away from.
6 looks like he’s cosplaying as 60s italian movie riviera pinterest europe cinecitta, which I instinctively distrust. And I don’t care what anyone says, I will simply not abide the sockless loafer.
4, whatever. I do not want to talk him. We clearly have nothing in common.
8 is awesome. Looks like an actual cool guy, lovely outfit, love the pose. He’s what 6 wants to be.
7 is pretty cool too. Have to dock points for the very modelly pose, sadly, but still, pretty sick fit.
5 I don’t really like but he’s a more confidently realised version of 6 so good for him. Not tryhard or heterosexual-looking enough for me to hate. Keep it up.
9 I am sure I would absolutely love if I saw it on someone who didn’t look like they were fresh out the male model factory. Bonus points for uncreased trousers.
And finally 1 is obviously awesome but like. You cannot use this as an outfit recommendation. That’s just irresponsible. First the guy is buff as fuck and that is a necessary part of the outfit. It’s all about that mad silhouette. Second, I mean. This is pretty eccentric right. If you saw everyone dressing like this it would just be dumb. You cannot expect those poor lesswrongs to understand this.
TO BE CLEAR I am not advocating for nerd fashion I’m just working class
“It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”
To be fair most of said outfits read as “rich arsehole” to me, which I do not find attractive. Yellow shirt guy I would suspect to be a white supremacist.
As far as men’s fashion goes, I’ve seen much worse, though the bits I do like here feel fairly gay-coded to me so uh whatever. (I suspect those are the very same bits our Lesswrong Commenter is disapproving of.)
This feels like a misuse of the word ontology, but what do I know?
They keep doing it and it drives me mad!! I finally understood that they got the word from computer shit and not philosophy. Isn’t it just amazing? Here we thought they were vaguely aware of established philosophical concepts for a second!
What The Shit
I’ve been dating Nate for two years (tho wanna clarify we are not doing marriage-kids and we’re both actively looking for more serious other partners).
Nate is profoundly wonderful in many ways, like often surprises me in new ways of wonderfulness, and has raised my standards in partners. He’s deeply caring, attentive, competent, hilarious, and of course brilliant.
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Iirc he’s explicitly said he doesn’t respect my thinking (edit: he clarifies he respects it in some areas but not others)
The way these people are larping conflict resolution is so exhausting aaaaaaa please can you just do normal abuse
The comments section really is incredible, the level of ignorance about basic kitchen things, which since it’s womanly knowledge instead of dyson spheres they seem to be completely incurious about …
Oh and I’m curious now, but can’t be bothered to look it up myself in this slop era,
Has anyone done a men’s vs women’s grip strength study controlling for hand size, height, etc? I’d love to know what the results would be.
But anyways - why is there a vacuum in the jar? To preserve the jam? Isn’t jam a preserve? Like, I thought the whole raison d’etre of jam was as a way to make fruit keep, unrefrigerated, through the winter? Why must we preserve the preserve? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
what is going on with these people i’m so annoyed i’m about to cry
Why do so many containers require women asking a man for help in order to open them? (Or carrying around an opening tool or living in a kitchen?)
how often do you open jam jars outside the kitchen?? it’s not that hard! you don’t actually have to force them open through grip strength like an idiot man!!
took me a second to understand this isn’t meant as a funny prank idea
least egotistical lesswronger
oh my god this post and the comments are a disaster. if lesswrong had sane moderation it’d have been nuked in seconds but of course they need to believe the most important thing they can do is use reason and talk through it. don’t worry about all the private information we’re leaking!
best bit
also loving the part where he seems to say people should focus on saving the world from the robot menace instead of calling out his behaviour
Listen, we already know you’re a racist, you don’t have to work so hard to make us hate you!
I’m not sure I understand this right (which I imagine is the purpose of his phrasing), but is this basically saying “if you assume black people are less competent, there is no racial discrimination”?