gradient descent into madness

watched as my husband poured himself a large glass of unicum, took a swig, and then began to exclaim in disgust for several minutes

i want you all to know that he's going back for more

eight years ago my beloved spouse went to watch life of brian and got so shitfaced off american unicum that by the end they had convinced themself that they had fully hallucinated the UFO sequence and had no idea what was happening after that point, in the movie or out of it. anyway if they have the worse/more interesting experience with the drink that means they're winning and I cant allow that

watched as my husband poured himself a large glass of unicum, took a swig, and then began to exclaim in disgust for several minutes

sometimes I am just amazed at how my ancestors managed to navigate the entire Pacific Ocean with these. knowledge that was nearly lost and is being re-learned.

if it were up to me octogons would tessellate. god fucked up on this one for real

'you don't need datacenters for the internet, they were just invented by Amazon' is one of those '100 companies are responsible for global warming'-ass takes. what do you think amazon is doing with those datacenters

You could sort of imagine a Jane Austen-y early-19th-century economy, with AI as the farm workers doing the economic activity and humans as the aristocratic rentiers who own land and earn 5% in perpetuity.

the punkest president is obviously obama, he’s the one who pretended to be a commie to score a bisexual girl

people are correct that a lot of attempts to restrict participation in women's sports are motivated by transphobia and a more generalized desire to force people into gendered boxes, to define boundaries around what counts as a woman. but I also think it's underappreciated how many of these attempts come from a desperate attempt to find some kind of consistent line against steroid use, and then running face first into the absolute clusterfuck that is human biological variation

okay nevermind post cancelled, apparently they have tests that can differentiate between endogenous and exogenous T, and for men they only test for exogenous T but for women they flag it if endogenous T is too high. it's all gender enforcement bullshit afterall. this is stupid, just have competitions divided into testosterone classes like they do with weight classes.

Honestly, that wouldn’t even make sense. Most of the top performing male athletes have lower than average testosterone, some in the same range as the average female athlete. Testosterone level just isn’t a good predictor of athletic performance.

can I get a source for that? my understanding is that female-typical levels of T without female-typical levels of E generally means a medically dangerous undersupply of sex hormones. also both male and female athletes regularly use T as a performance-enhancing drug when not specifically prohibited from doing so.

bitter lesson not that bitter. the nice lesson, the sweet lesson

@transgenderer

it seems like in bdsm the "rewards" and the "punishments" look very similar. this concerns me a great deal, because it points to a system of misaligned incentives. if we're not careful, it's even possible that a rational actor could deliberately violate regulations, because the penalties for rule violations are in fact incentivized. one shudders to think of the consequences of such an arrangement

oh... that can't possibly be pareto efficient... that's scary...

"really good. I mean, really bad. but really funny. and funniness is a virtue"

I can't believe we spent like a decade arguing about AI in the Box stuff when they didn't even bother with a box