Amusing

Amuse and Confuse

Chill Amusing, Sex

It’s pretty telling — and revealing of our evolutionary and cultural history — how very much time and effort people and groups spend attempting to police who should be allowed to have sex with whom.

Mostly, I just stand back and observe, amused and confused. Of course no one admits that’s what they are doing. But it is what you’re all doing.

Algo Alstay

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

AGI is Mathematically Impossible 2: When Entropy Returns.

Wow this paper is a mess. It’s terrible, though I know it will be widely-cited as “true.” I linked to the HN discussion because the author is rightly being roasted in the comments.

Authoring a complete response and rebuttal would take far more time than I wish to spend on this pointless and thankless task, but this is what it looks like when a STEM-y person attempts to poorly engage in philosophical thinking without realizing they are doing it or understanding any of it.

And it’s simultaneously amusing and secondhand embarrassing.

Some Word Wordsum

Chill Amusing

Try the GSS WORDSUM questions!

I got a 10/10 (all 20 right) with no cheating. I didn’t really expect anything less. Those are all super easy for my brain.

If I take a more verbal IQ test I score in the 165-180 range. On the other hand if I take a more math-y one, I score in the 70-80 range.

So depending on which test I take I’m a genius1 or borderline mentally retarded. Fun!

  1. People with 167 IQs aren’t actually that rare when considering the whole population, 1 out of 71,000 or so. If you flatten out the whole world, that means there are 113,000 of us, if the “STEM-is-all-that-matters” clowns let me in the club based on my results on verbal-leaning tests.

Uncons

Chill Amusing, Annoying

A lot of women are supremely bothered by the fact that unauthorized/undesirable men will be attracted to them and are incensed when no one does anything about it.

It’s hilarious to watch. Additionally, I can personally confirm there are at least two women who wore sundresses at least partly for “ease of access.” So indeed it does happen. People in general just weren’t made for social media, and I think it’s a whole lot more mentally damaging to women as they just care about it more.

Left Two Behinds

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

That does seem to be their plan. They are already clownishly irrelevant. In some ways, the modern left has become some weird offshoot of traditional conservatism — except they want gay people to get married and think men and women are exactly the same, except when they are completely different (trans stuff).

Trol

Chill Amusing, Annoying

I know this tweet is satirical, but people of either gender get angry when someone does something that they feel removes or negates their dominance in some area they’ve traditionally held it. Women control the dating space with an iron fist and when anyone impinges on that or obtains what they feel is an unwarranted advantage, they get extremely upset. It’s a natural human reaction. Men police other areas to a similar extent, though that’s been decreasing a bit in recent years.

At least 90% of the “feminist” reaction to the PUA community was not due to its misogyny but that PUA advice actually did cause (in their view) undesirable men to get markedly better at social interaction, which was a threat to PMC women.