navigating between the Scylla of overusing metaphors and the Kraken of mixing them up.
Dream Zanarkand
Joined September 2012
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Nathan dupes his subjects for sublime comedy but also his audiences for cheap drama. cf. The Rehearsal, season 2: Nathan doesn't sincerely care about aviation safety, yet he presents his (in)sincerity as a live question even metatextually. it's a meaningless, laughless schtick.
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Lately I like AI boxing strategies. But I'm worried keeping an AI in a box, even a very nice box, is villainous.
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THE IDEA THAT THERE IS AN ORIGINAL WORLD FROM WHICH A SIMULATION IS DRAWN HAS IN ITS ASSUMPTIONS A WORLD-DWELLER'S CONCEPT OF TIME.
pro sports ranked by points:
cricket: 150
basketball: 114
rugby: 24.5
football: 22
tennis: 4.80
formula 1: 4.590
baseball: 4.5
hockey: 3
soccer: 1.5
chess: 0.50
golf: -1.5
I was born around 33 years and an hour ago—I am Scorpio in Sun, Mars, and Pluto, and somehow birthtime–personality astrology predicts me quite well, I am quite stereotypically Scorpio.
It really is funny in Job how God goes from rhetorically asking Job about the mysteries of the stars and nature and geology and justice and death &c. to just bragging about how badass Leviathan is and how much better Leviathan is than any human could ever be for an entire chapter
I usually describe my political ideas as extremely to the left beyond human comprehension, but the irony is that I'm mostly just a big fan of the Sermon on the Mount
"You said you was EATIN'? Y'all different. Y'all different. Bro, we don't EAT where I'm from. When they hungry in my town, they KILL PEOPLE. That's right, they feed off of DEATH. DEATH give them nutrients. That's crazy, ain't it? It's real different out there, mang. Y'all SOFT."
The messages, those demonic messages... they're telling me to clean & organize my room so it's easier to find stuff... they keep hinting I should make a budget, make small payments to vastly improve my credit... demonically they emphasize responsibility, discipline, stability...
