6000 years ago God decided which Calvinists go to Heaven by predicting which Calvinists will be virtuous.
You are a Calvinist, nothing you do now can change God's decision, and you prefer sin to virtue.
Choose:
35%Sin
65%Be virtuous
102 votes • 2 daysIt's interesting that spiciness is a poison, but we evolved to like the taste, BUT it's still somewhat aversive even though it's fine to eat.
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what do you mean "are you okay?"????
of course i am okay!
i built the tub!
i'm the one turning up temperature!!
mmfgfhhhhgh waaarmmm
I finally understand: video games are not actually fun
All of them seem to require either some stupid amount of mental effort (e.g. pay close attention to something boring for a long period), or some time-wasting trivial tasks like grinding, or both
Building AI is an existential risk, to discourage AI risk we must be able to hedge against it, to hedge against the extinction of humanity we must have counterparties who survive humanity, to have counterparties that survive humanity we must build AI
Replying to @birdpathy
liability insurance doesn't internalise x-risk for the same reason prediction markets can't estimate it, it's an inherently one-sided bet because the other side won't have the endurance to collect on their insurance
First vocabulary test I've taken that I didn't get perfect on, I'm impressed
This one was fun. Because it's adaptive, most of the test is right at your level of ability, so it's neither boring nor overly challe ging (though I will say that a few of the hardest ones I was entirely guessing)
taketest.xyz/vocab-cat
Only tangentially related but it is odd how there have been relatively few wars about religion, given the high stakes. And most of those religious wars that did happen had a big political component. Altruistic war isn't adaptive I guess?
Replying to @dj_d_sol
"stakes that dwarf anything else going on in the world" is not unique to x risk, given that many believe in eternal damnation / eternal heaven for themselves and others.
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