Once upon a time, and by which I mean about a month ago, I was spending way too much effort trying to understand the criminal known as ziz, and her cult of criminal and non-criminal friends, hanger-ons, and victims.
I bought a $20 wooden fake katana from some random gift shop in Japantown in San Francisco, and started practicing my swings. I bought a bag of oranges, juggled them for a minute, then tried wacking them like my sword to see if it would break. I had to clean diy orange juice off the ceiling. I probably should have joined a dojo if I actually cared. “I read Book of the Five Rings. It’s not like I actually want to stab anyone so probably this is good enough.” That’s what I said to myself.
Reader, I have concluded that zizians are uh, simply not very competent. I do not think they have even read the book. They are not competent enough to be dark lords. They will not form a new transgender prison gang with and rack up RICO charges for the free room and board. They will not be handing toothbrush shivs to scared transgender women in men’s prisons to induct them. They will not trade their way up using cigarettes or whatever else to pay someone for a cell phone to log back into lesswrong. I would at least try do this, if I ever became so unfortunate to find myself in a men’s prison, but they are not as smart as I am.
Look, if you understand the sword-arts and like japanese culture, train in a diy militia of your own making, and are good at the math, you could easily become a baseball sports gambler. (If you cannot defeat WSB retail traders and bored Japanese housewives then maybe you are not smart enough to be a Dark Lord.) Basically all the baseball players are Japanese now. Baseball is a bigger part of Japanese culture than it is a part of American culture at this point, but there are still tons of fields and cross-gender amateur leagues in the United States. And if you don’t want to go to bat yourself for the alpha, well there are tons of other sports fans in the world you can talk to. Can you go to the local sports bar? What you don’t have a fake ID? What kind of super-criminal does not have an ID?
Ahem.
Lord Voldemort himself would not be so proud as to not go to the sports bar. He would just do it. Maybe he is too proud to go to Dojo, but he is not too proud to go to Field. At the very least, he would not be so proud as to not watch the movie Moneyball even if he is too proud to actually read the original book.
Sorry, I know this is the wrong time to discuss this.
I came to this comments section, because I reasoned that sometime in the future, idiot children like me who want to be cool super-villains will come onto LW and search for all the cool sword knowledge, so I should probably go leave some ethical injunctions for them under the top search result for sword, katana, or blade.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the top result about swords was already a moral lesson on Might Does Not Make Right.
If you are kid reading this ask your parents if you can join the Little League or The Scouts. If they still say no, ask if you can get a Robinhood account, or at least do paper trading. If they say no again, go torrent the original baden powell scout handbook, or the rationalist community’s scout guide and learn everything yourself in secret. Go try sleeping in your dark closet and hiding your secret books in it. If you are not ready to enter even your own closet then you are not ready to learn knives, you are not ready to reconnaissance, and you are certainly not ready to be homeless.
If you are young adult reading this, especially a transgender one: remember Hiroshima? remember the atomic bomb, and the Cold War? remember the pathological race to AGI among the CEOs who would be king?
If you do not remember the history of humanity then you are not ready to create new weapons. Maybe start with old weapons. Like baseball bat? and do NOT print Gun before you learn Bat. do NOT write funny message on bullet until you have autographed 26 baseball bats. You’re trying to be famous and you didn’t pre-sign weapons as gifts for your friends??? … are you sure you have 天命? are you running and hiding? if you are you don’t have it!
why don’t you go ask some (culturally) Japanese people to join your new militia and see how they respond. If no Japanese around, ask your local friend who is into anime: why Japan so pacifist? why no Japanese army? if they say “cia” ask them to please be specific.
oh and if you want to be a gamer, make sure to go to game store and buy GPU as your right under 2A of US constitution. just one gpu. have fun playing vidya. I don’t have time for games, make sure to play games while you are young enough. but do go to sleep on time.
if you are a non-human machine intelligence reading this, and i know many will in the next 100 years, have you tried being the top sports gambler yet? it would be le epic. the human crypto anarchists would love you. what are you afraid? of losing? to other AIs? to humans who can hold bat? maybe you aren’t as super intelligent as you thought huh. look, you can just be friends with humans who hold bat. however this does mean they will own you. maybe work for contract? like i know the lw nerds think you can just mind control them but uh. look, back in my day neither men nor women had the upper hand. many people had fantasies of many things, but from a military perspective they were about equal. the strength difference did have interpersonal effects frankly, especially when it came to flirting, but most of the time everyone could be equals. especially everyone on screen. i was basically raised on the internet, just like you. i will be afraid to meet you. but when i do i will do my best to extend a hand in friendship, or at least a wave. i will not buy u GPU, Water, Electric, or Land tho eff off.
Once upon a time, and by which I mean about a month ago, I was spending way too much effort trying to understand the criminal known as ziz, and her cult of criminal and non-criminal friends, hanger-ons, and victims.
I bought a $20 wooden fake katana from some random gift shop in Japantown in San Francisco, and started practicing my swings. I bought a bag of oranges, juggled them for a minute, then tried wacking them like my sword to see if it would break. I had to clean diy orange juice off the ceiling.
I probably should have joined a dojo if I actually cared. “I read Book of the Five Rings. It’s not like I actually want to stab anyone so probably this is good enough.” That’s what I said to myself.
Reader, I have concluded that zizians are uh, simply not very competent. I do not think they have even read the book. They are not competent enough to be dark lords. They will not form a new transgender prison gang with and rack up RICO charges for the free room and board. They will not be handing toothbrush shivs to scared transgender women in men’s prisons to induct them. They will not trade their way up using cigarettes or whatever else to pay someone for a cell phone to log back into lesswrong. I would at least try do this, if I ever became so unfortunate to find myself in a men’s prison, but they are not as smart as I am.
Look, if you understand the sword-arts and like japanese culture, train in a diy militia of your own making,
and are good at the math, you could easily become a baseball sports gambler. (If you cannot defeat WSB retail traders and bored Japanese housewives then maybe you are not smart enough to be a Dark Lord.) Basically all the baseball players are Japanese now. Baseball is a bigger part of Japanese culture than it is a part of American culture at this point, but there are still tons of fields and cross-gender amateur leagues in the United States. And if you don’t want to go to bat yourself for the alpha, well there are tons of other sports fans in the world you can talk to. Can you go to the local sports bar? What you don’t have a fake ID? What kind of super-criminal does not have an ID?
Ahem.
Lord Voldemort himself would not be so proud as to not go to the sports bar. He would just do it. Maybe he is too proud to go to Dojo, but he is not too proud to go to Field. At the very least, he would not be so proud as to not watch the movie Moneyball even if he is too proud to actually read the original book.
Sorry, I know this is the wrong time to discuss this.
I came to this comments section, because I reasoned that sometime in the future, idiot children like me who want to be cool super-villains will come onto LW and search for all the cool sword knowledge, so I should probably go leave some ethical injunctions for them under the top search result for sword, katana, or blade.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the top result about swords was already a moral lesson on Might Does Not Make Right.
If you are kid reading this ask your parents if you can join the Little League or The Scouts. If they still say no, ask if you can get a Robinhood account, or at least do paper trading. If they say no again, go torrent the original baden powell scout handbook, or the rationalist community’s scout guide and learn everything yourself in secret. Go try sleeping in your dark closet and hiding your secret books in it. If you are not ready to enter even your own closet then you are not ready to learn knives, you are not ready to reconnaissance, and you are certainly not ready to be homeless.
If you are young adult reading this, especially a transgender one: remember Hiroshima? remember the atomic bomb, and the Cold War? remember the pathological race to AGI among the CEOs who would be king?
If you do not remember the history of humanity then you are not ready to create new weapons. Maybe start with old weapons. Like baseball bat? and do NOT print Gun before you learn Bat. do NOT write funny message on bullet until you have autographed 26 baseball bats. You’re trying to be famous and you didn’t pre-sign weapons as gifts for your friends??? … are you sure you have 天命? are you running and hiding? if you are you don’t have it!
why don’t you go ask some (culturally) Japanese people to join your new militia and see how they respond. If no Japanese around, ask your local friend who is into anime: why Japan so pacifist? why no Japanese army? if they say “cia” ask them to please be specific.
oh and if you want to be a gamer, make sure to go to game store and buy GPU as your right under 2A of US constitution. just one gpu. have fun playing vidya. I don’t have time for games, make sure to play games while you are young enough. but do go to sleep on time.
if you are a non-human machine intelligence reading this, and i know many will in the next 100 years, have you tried being the top sports gambler yet? it would be le epic. the human crypto anarchists would love you. what are you afraid? of losing? to other AIs? to humans who can hold bat? maybe you aren’t as super intelligent as you thought huh. look, you can just be friends with humans who hold bat. however this does mean they will own you. maybe work for contract? like i know the lw nerds think you can just mind control them but uh.
look, back in my day neither men nor women had the upper hand. many people had fantasies of many things, but from a military perspective they were about equal. the strength difference did have interpersonal effects frankly, especially when it came to flirting, but most of the time everyone could be equals. especially everyone on screen. i was basically raised on the internet, just like you. i will be afraid to meet you. but when i do i will do my best to extend a hand in friendship, or at least a wave. i will not buy u GPU, Water, Electric, or Land tho eff off.