Maybe I'm autistic then, because I don't know how this turned out. These people seem to complain about everyone on the planet who doesn't share all of their beliefs - do they get more, or less angry when it's a black person? Or is it the fact that she was a "taken" woman, vs. an "available" prostitute like Aella? I've read all your posts and still can't understand what these "rationalists" are so worked up about.
He says they get defensively formal. Which is rational, because a black woman in such a place is almost certainly a troll (she in fact was in this case). Just FYI, according to the survey there's ~2x more Finns reading SSC than black people. There's about 5M Finns in Finland, compared to over 40M black people in the US alone.
He used to co-author a LISP variant, 20 years ago, which used html tags instead of parenthesis or something. That was the extent of his coding career AFAIK.
Lack of understanding of LISP (but AI meant doing LISP before Python took over everything) and XML was the hip thing at the time.
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For what it’s worth and only tangentially I have experienced something similar in my immediate social circle, with women having sex they shouldn’t have had, shifting the blame, then getting caught up in their own lies and having to double down on it until this whole thing somehow spirals into a rape allegation with the help of coping boyfriends or drama hungry besties
There has to be a name for these people, they're all over the internet constantly acting like they're experts on a topic they just found out exists and never mentioned before in their life. (We've all seen this, think of how they were virology experts suddenly as COVID spread and then Ukraine and foreign policy experts immediately last year.) They've spawned another class of idiot that basically just Googles or hits Wikipedia and only reads the first sentence they see and uses that as the entire basis of their "autodidact" knowledge. None of them actually appreciate learning as a process or want to learn anything.
Anyone who does that should consult our "Dumb Shit On Wikipedia" thread.
Lanier keeps getting so fucking fat. He can't even walk. But of course, the (((tribe))) have to stir up shit and be noisy.
Yes but also if there is nothing, then your actions don't affect it. Just like my actions have no effect on the world's unicorn population.
I've yet to ever meet anyone who ever actually started belief based upon the wager. It's generally deployed more as a defense, especially against some of the more assholeish atheist types. Indeed as long as the religion is a positive influence on a person's life - what's the point of trying to evangelize them into nihilism?
For pete's sake, Scott. Know what they used to call the Kiwi Farms before the internet? GOSSIP RAGS! Aka magazines and newspapers!
You don't have to memorize the full vocabulary of it (we do have google and reference books for a reason) but how can you understand HTML and not figure out CSS? It's like the second simplest language. Even just glancing at a sample should clue a person into the syntax.
Every cult eventually devolves into a sex cult.
Knowing the syntax isn't understanding. CSS has simple syntax, but how it works is extremely complex, full of gotchas and can't be derived from any simple general rule. Compared to that, HTML works in a pretty obvious way. My point is that it's hard to remember things that don't make a coherent whole and are pretty much random.
LISP is about the easiest language to implement because your source code is literally the same as your abstract syntax tree and there's only a few forms/keywords to implement. There's plenty of tutorials on writing a lisp in X language and it's a pretty frequent semester project in upper division programming language theory or compiler design classes. I mean in the abstract it's impressive, but if that's all he did and it was literal decades ago then you know he can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to computing.
That's another reason I don't like it. Nobody really believes it.
I think you're operating under a false dichotomy here. Both in that there's more than one religion out there and "why should I join yours" is a valid response, but lacking belief in a deity isn't automatically a nihilistic stance.
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