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Just the other day I read up on Roko's Basilisk as a fix point of AI/techno pseudo religion in the context of AI in Trump's fascisto DOGE movement.

Mastodon thread here

Anyhow, the Wikipedia read up left me clueless especially this point of being theory.

While the theory was initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky considered it a potential information hazard, and banned discussion of the basilisk on the site for five years. Reports of panicked users were later dismissed as being exaggeration...

Source

ELI5 or something 🙏🏾

Rokos bassalisk is a test in "who gives a shit"

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Now this is an eye-opener analysis!

I just wondered:

"wow this show is so wholesome"

But now I know why. Thanks op

Steven Universe is interesting to me because it’s got the most extreme dichotomy between ideas that would be better fleshed out in a show for adults, and ideas that are interesting specifically because they’re native to an unironic children’s show.

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Reblog for visibility.

I really shouldn't use Tumblr anymore because I also judge everything-Meta (Facebook, Instagram...) for a similar policy 😭

In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

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This took an unexpected turn.

Pelican Town got a new farmer ... she's bit of a cryptid but the people appreciates her efforts.

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In unrelated news, there is a Japanese car patent for...

*spoken in Bill Wurtz style*

✨ Farting 💨 on unbuckled drivers 😩🚗🌈

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Me, wiping the plant, dirt and shards together:

That's my cat

Alien pulling your sleeve to get your attention: and who is this Cunt you all serve

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In unrelated news, there is a Japanese car patent for...

*spoken in Bill Wurtz style*

✨ Farting 💨 on unbuckled drivers 😩🚗🌈

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I mean, can we start this as adults too? Like

I am 51 years old and I love thyme and 1970s hentai manga fanfics.

🤔 But then again, as a neurospicy person I'd have to prepare a routine where I pick the MOST PREVALENT fact du jour because I have so many.

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This came from this post about learning to draw in 40 hours. Really an insightful comment about learning in general and learning to draw.

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/iseeidraw/

This sentence has hit me hard

At this point, I understood the Howard Ikemoto's quote mentioned in the book:

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said:

"You mean they forget?"

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This sentence has hit me hard

At this point, I understood the Howard Ikemoto's quote mentioned in the book:

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said:

"You mean they forget?"

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This has nice Tales from the Loop vibes, you know the pen&paper RPG.

For reference from the Invasive Species book:

my indoraptor fern!! ^-^

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i'm just so exhausted by the alienating and infantilizing of autistic people. it's to the point that when ppl find out i'm autistic i DREAD them telling me they have an autistic relative because they almost always immediately overshare about that relative's personal life to me for no reason whatsoever.

i'll say i'm autistic and someone i barely know will be like "omg! my cousin is autistic! he's nothing like you though. he doesn't talk and he has meltdowns all the time. if he gets really overwhelmed sometimes he bangs his head on walls."

like ok 1. consider i'm not always verbal and i also have meltdowns but that's neither here nor there.

imagine if i told you i have a cousin [allistic] and you said "omg! i have a cousin too! [allistic]" I bet you would either end there or tell me something fun about her like a hobby she has or where she goes to school. I bet you wouldn't tell me how she acts when she's completely overwhelmed and having a terrible day. I bet you wouldn't tell me, within 5 minutes of meeting me, that when your allistic cousin failed a big exam she cried until she threw up and got a migraine.

because that would be weird for me and invasive for your cousin. so you wouldn't say that, if she's not autistic. you respect her privacy, because she's not autistic.

i swear a lot of y'all talk about your autistic siblings/kids/nieces/etc. like they're family pets

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Wait a second!

Did the NRA just forgot to rise up against the tyrannical government they were on about all these decades?

Shame all these people were killed for nothing.

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tumblr staff finding out their site has crowdsourced a viral song, only to discover it is 100% unusable in any corporate marketing scenario

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This just in!

i don’t care if it’s political incorrect but i’m gonna keep deadnaming the gulf of MEXICO #DarkWoke