Oh, wow. I was reading your description of your experiences in this, and I was like, “Oh, wow, this is like a step-by-step example of brainwashing. Yup, there’s the defreezing, the change while unfrozen, and the resolidification.”
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That’s not what a real apology looks like. Better would be “I’m sorry. I can see now that I shouldn’t have said what I said in a forum such as this.”
I can see what you mean, but I would be more likely to say something like “I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.” The reason I said it is because this thread seemed like the best place to say it, so saying that I shouldn’t have said it here is obviously incorrect.
suggest that Alicorn ‘cybers’ you, or even ‘put’ the image of cybering ‘out there’. This is doing exactly what Alicorn doesn’t want, namely making your interaction on this forum “sexually charged”.
Huh? I was trying to do the opposite; to reassure her that it wasn’t sexually charged, because she wasn’t cybering with me. O_o
I’m sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable; that wasn’t really my intent. Getting assistance in better compartmentalisation techniques was my intent, though I figured I’d get some downvotes given that the Less Wrong community usually tries to reduce compartmentalization, not increase it, though decreasing compartmentalisation does not seem like a good idea in this case for the reasons I laid out in my previous post.
I assure you, I did not post that for any sort of sexual thrill; it’d take something like cybersex or an erotic story for me to get a sexual thrill out of anything I’ve written, so unless you start cybering with me or something, you’re safe, Alicorn. ;) I’m simply open about that part of my sex life, partly because of Asperger’s Syndrome mind-blindness, and partly because I’m planning on working in a sensitive field once I finish university and I won’t need to worry about being blackmailed about it if I’m not worried about people finding out.
Well, obviously there’s a difference between violently throwing someone into a bed, and joking around and playfully pushing them on the shoulder to signal them to get into the bed, but my point is that the studies conflate the two and everything in between them and classify them all as rape. Just check “yes” in the box, and voila, you’re a rapist.
Personally, I like objectifying women. I get erotic pleasure from it, along with a lot of other things that involve women being degraded and humiliated; put simply, my fetish is for the lowering of women’s status.
Obviously, I would need to compartmentalise this to function in day to day society, as well as avoid violations of ethics; rape is, after all, very wrong, even if it is a quite sexy idea. So, would any of the other Less Wrongers be willing to help me more efficiently box it off, so I can open it up without needing to do what amounts to mentally chanting “SLUT SLUT SLUT GONNA RAPE YOU AND FILL YOU WITH CUM” whenever I want to masturbate to pornography, and to minimize leak-through so I’ll stop doing things like licking my lips when I see a sexy woman.
Considering that some feminists have argued that all heterosexual sex is rape, he’s not exaggerating that much. The ones who make the studies he was referencing do things like making questionnaires that ask questions like “Have you ever pushed a girl into bed to make her have sex with you?” and counting that as rape to inflate the statistics, because more rapes = more money for the rape services they work for.
Fantasise about brutally murdering the abusers. You’ll probably feel a lot better once you’re done, and child abusers are a socially acceptable target for all the hate you feel like mustering.
Why worry about Google stockpiling your personal information when people are entirely capable of profiling you anyway!
I’ve read that singing can allow people who stutter to speak relatively normally, since it uses a different part of the brain to normal speech.
If you don’t know it intuitively (because of Apserger’s Syndrome or the like), about all I can recommend is hard work and effort; the differences can be fairly subtle, and depend on the context of the situation and the relationships between the people involved.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful; I have Asperger’s Syndrome myself even if I’ve learned to fake being normal pretty well as I grew up, so I understand how frustrating a lack of social skills can be.
Does this offer any functionality NoScript doesn’t? I’ve already got the latter installed, but I’d want to know if it would be a waste of time to install this as well.
I take out a pen and some paper, and work out what the answer really is. ;)
Oh, they’d almost certainly get an unFriendly AI regardless of how they parented it, but bad parenting could very easily make an unFriendly AI worse. Especially if it interacts a lot with the Goreans, and comes to the conclusion that women want to be enslaved, or something similar.
That of all the money devalued by the inflation caused by printing money.
Second Life creators to attempt to create AI
Yeah, you have to register to view the board, and yeah, it’s the Perfect Lionheart fic. The reason that thread’s gotten so many posts and the story’s gotten so much negative feeling about it, though, is because it started off looking good, was well-written (as far as the technical aspects of writing like spelling, grammar, and so on go), and had occasional teases in a scene here and there that it might manage to redeem itself.
If it was simply poorly written it would have been dismissed as just another piece of the sea of shit that makes up 90% of ff.net.
You know, I know it was just an omake, I could actually see Shirou using Unlimited Bayes Works in a serious fic. Reality Marbles derive from minds which are alien to the common sense of humanity, and as we all know, humans are anything but properly rational. Kiritsugu Emiya already told Shirou the basics of his moral system in canon; it wouldn’t take too much more elaboration for Shirou to pick up “Magi are supposed to be rational about doing good” as well as “Sometimes, in order to save people, people have to die.”
Then he’d just throw himself into making himself rational the same way he threw himself at physical exercises following Kiritsugu’s death (that is, with single-minded devotion to the practice), and before you know it, it’d be time for Unlimited Bayes Works. That said, if he did become a more rational person, he’d probably know that cleaning the Archery Club floors is not the most efficient use of his time, and tell Shinji to go fuck himself, thereby preventing him from seeing Lancer and Archer fighting, and from there Lancer’s attempts at killing him and Saber’s summoning, so the story would take a different turn, right from Day One.
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In this scenario, it has not yet engaged the bulk of the forces of the US military. It’s wiping out the brass in the Pentagon, not fighting US Soldiers.
Besides, soldiers usually act on orders, and the lines of communication are sort of in chaos at the moment due to the sudden decapitation.