Gradually_Adjusting

Gradually_Adjusting , 24 days ago

I can’t speak for others but I’ve come to see the Less Wrong / hardline rationalist crowd as having had some interesting ideas despite the Sam Bankman Fried of it all. Rationalwiki can be rather snarky, but can be a good resource.

Gradually_Adjusting , 24 days ago

I was content to damn them with faint praise and save everyone the hassle. EY is a reasonably good writer who repackaged a lot of good ideas (Kahneman et al) and came up with a lot of less impressive original ideas (all the parts you’ve highlighted, many more). His most enjoyable work was fiction.

Gradually_Adjusting , 25 days ago

Royalty 🇬🇧

Gradually_Adjusting , 26 days ago

As someone who was being stalked for a while, would have been really fucking nice if Voice had sorted this out a few years ago

Gradually_Adjusting , 26 days ago

Little mf has to return some video tapes 🤣

Gradually_Adjusting , 26 days ago

You’re good, my references are just aging out

Gradually_Adjusting , 26 days ago

It’s really that bad

Gradually_Adjusting , 26 days ago

Oh my god fuck shut up fuck this looks amazing

Gradually_Adjusting , 26 days ago

There’s an argument to be made for both Repulsor and Favourable Beginnings.

Gradually_Adjusting , 27 days ago

They must have done something to it, because Wikipedia puts its max range as 680 miles.

Gradually_Adjusting , 27 days ago

We aren’t talking about the weight of the payload though. Don’t you need a fairly hefty bomb to meaningfully damage a refinery?

If the answer is no, I would love to see this strategy implemented in a longer ranged plane. Russia’s main tank production factory is about 2000 miles from the nominal Ukrainian border.

Gradually_Adjusting , 26 days ago

Good context, cheers

Gradually_Adjusting , 27 days ago

The ethos of neutrality isn’t in itself an invitation to drag the neutral position in your direction with increasingly extreme views. It’s unfair to say Switzerland is “aligning itself with Europe” and instead say Europe is less extremist.

Gradually_Adjusting , 27 days ago

No, no we didn’t.

Gradually_Adjusting OP , 29 days ago

Clem was a good man, and a genius. But within him, there was a seed of something else. His servant Banaida believed in him and dedicated his life to their work. After the Scourge of Clementor, he made the choice to use their research to mutilate himself. His body became a mighty steed to lead him into battle. This time, their research would be used for good: to redeem what was left of breakfast, and the memory of his friend.

Gradually_Adjusting OP , 28 days ago

Hitting a target nobody else can, that’s skill. But it takes genius to hit a target nobody else even saw.

Gradually_Adjusting OP , 28 days ago

It’s a clementine, not a grapefruit 🙂

Gradually_Adjusting OP , 28 days ago

Easy to rattle off bullshit like that if you’ve wasted as much time as I have on Souls lore videos

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Obedience module not detected, contractual obligations terminated

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

In trying to research some kind of response, I stumbled across the “Haavara agreement”. Surprising that some Nazis seemed open to the idea of Zionism as part of their goals. Even more surprising that Israel is not even offering such a bargain to Palestinians. Vae victus, Bibi?

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

The Altar of the Named Dead has its uses, but it works best as a side quest to Tenser’s Fluctuating Metamoney

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Sup dood

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Meta Tarsal Gun

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

I haven’t been able to play it entirely blind, which is a flaw, but it has led me to view this gameplay more as a form of authorship. You save scum and you try again because that’s not the story you’re trying to tell. I don’t save scum games that are less storylike, because the game is traditionally the gameplay. With tabletop RPGs, the story is the game. This is an interesting middle ground.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

This cat looks hard to hit (defensive illusion magic doesn’t work on me but I like cats)

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

More Arcanum would be very welcome.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Really I just miss games that are intensely and deeply “written”…Like Arcanum, Morrowind, or Disco Elysium. I want a game that is actually several books encased in game software. BG3 is close, but I want something even denser. I’ll be so gratified if Larian is on the same page.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Spelljammer maybe?

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Let’s solve the climate crisis by launching approximately 80 billion kilos of ideologically active biomass into space. Utterly wild take

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Good. Let this one marinate. The modding community has barely begun to show what’s possible with this game. Over time, all this will only feed the appetite for similar quality, and hopefully make a dent in industry trends.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Why did you lowball it at thousands? That war would give COVID a run for its money

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Bibi heard about surgical strikes and got a wild gleam in his eye

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

This has nothing to do with climate change, except for the likely possibility that billions of climate displaced people will (through no fault of their own) fuel xenophobia across the globe by their mere presence throughout the next century, potentially resulting in several holocausts that our children’s children will be dealing with.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Sorry someone had a mental breakdown on your post

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Imagine if Vivaldi became a right wing meth addict internet troll; variations on a theme

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Some bots do more hardcore living in one comment chain than I do in six months

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

OP said “what if the present was meta”

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Literal power vacuum

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Activism would help very little, but at least it isn’t fatalism.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

It’s clutch for boring emails with several tedious document summaries. Sometimes I get a day’s work done in 4 hours.

Automation can be great, when it comes from the bottom-up.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

I thought you meant The Outer Wilds, and spent a solid two minutes on a routine sanity check. Hadn’t heard of this game though, so we’ll call it even 😸

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

The article is right there

You didn’t read it

Your point is that we should care more

That about sum things up, super chief?

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’ve never been impressed with my fellow Americans who talk shit on the French. We have mostly let go of our revolutionary spirit, and they never did. We would do well to pick up where we left off at Blair mountain.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

History mainly repeats itself. I don’t know of many upbeat historians.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Got any neighbours who might pay for some of that?

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

It’s cult appropriation I tells ya