I don't believe in altruistic moral rules that exist in vacuum. I actually think that the true laws of morality are closer to "might makes right" than "help your fellow human". But I do still live by the latter.

Today's is a good one

existentialcomics.com/comic/594

Just like cold war MAD in game theory, I think the part women actually value is thinking that they could cause hurt. Specifically, they want to feel like the end of the relationship will hurt their ex. That looming pain that goes with the end of a relationship increases the cost of ending it.

Here, I thought it meant something like "Open and honest about your feelings, hopes, fears, and weaknesses". That it was primarily about communication levels rather than the common definition of vulnerable, "being susceptible to harm".

It was years before I learned that this doesn't really work, and years more before I fully grokked why. In the early days of facebook, people could list these details about themselves. Instead of wondering, or awkwardly trying to ask without asking, you could just look someone up and know.

One of my favorite series from that era (and still) was The Vorkosagin series by Lois McMaster Bujold. I had definitely stated those books before I ever read The Dispossessed. But back then, I thought it was Louis, rather than Lois, and that the author was a man. It was years before I realized.

As a teenager I read voraciously. I used to think that I could tell the gender of the author by their writing. When I first read The Dispossessed, by Ursula K LeGuin, I misread the author's name as "Ursalak" and thought it was a male version of Ursula.

This "recommendation" sounds like pure gobbledygook to me, with no practical actionable advice. And I'll bet Interfor got paid millions for it.

Love how the first quote from an expert directly contradicts the narrative in the headline.

This is why people think the economy is faltering when it's actually doing well.

Bad WaPo, one demerit!

Man, the Bluesky UI copies twitter's very closely. I wonder if it will be a problem when the inevitable lawsuit comes.

Former OpenAi engineer leaves the company and calls it it out in the New York Times. Found dead by suicide a few months later 😕

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/t...

Gotta cover all your bases in every post, no matter how few characters you get

Stolen from a Slatestarcodex commenter, but it was my favorite tweet from the other place so I'm using it as my first post here

And so Lucifer rallies his host after The Fall. Raise your spear, and we shall converge!