Clipboard guy who looks suspiciously like Agent 47 staring daggers at me while I try to fuck

They apparently only got three minutes each

Listen, I don’t want to brag, but I can bust way faster than that.

She explains it in her blog post that starts out by quoting Nelson Mandela

Oh Christ, yeah. That’s not great.

You’re supposed to shower before you swim at literally every pool

that makes it even worse, pools are filthy

Oh that explains a lot actually.

I know this is not at all a popular opinion, and I’m reluctant to say it even here on hexbear. But daily showering really is overrated. It can also be bad for your skin microbiome, especially if you use soap with antibacterial properties.

Also hair that goes unwashed for good lengths of time will always be healthier hair than frequently-washed hair, even if it’s with the most expensive bourgsie ass shit shampoo at the salon. Just as an example, you know all those shampoo ads for dealing with split ends? Yeah, just don’t use the shampoo/conditioner at all, letting your natural hair oils build up, conditioning your hair and your “split ends” will be gone or at least markedly better than they would be with any overpriced garbage hair product that promises to cure them.

Is that your deduction or does she post images of herself?

pick the right careers and make donations

On first blush, there’s a certain amount of logic to this, but then the EA people all “realized that AI is the most dangerous thing ever” and started giving all of their money to each other’s AI startups, so whatever it started as it ended up being a techbro grift.

There is a certain logic to the original ideas of effective altruism. If you want to make positive change in the world, you will be more able to do so if you are a powerful person.

The problem is you can essentially use it as a justification for endlessly pursuing your own personal power. After all the more powerful you become, the more good you can do! In fact it makes it easy to justify committing immoral acts in the pursuit of power-- think of it from a utilitarian point of view! I am going to do so much good once I’m rich, that it will far out weight the harm I’m doing now. In other words, an okay idea that is used and abused by the greedy and power hungry to convince themselves they aren’t bad people.

Yeah, there’s the seed of a sensible idea in there, which is just “if you’re going to try to improve the world, you should think carefully about where and how to spend your limited resources to have the most impact.” That’s fine–good, even–but these ghouls have used that idea and their own ideological preconceptions to bootstrap themselves into some absolutely insane positions.

A big part of the problem is that they extend their utility calculations indefinitely into the future with no temporal discounting whatsoever. That leads to a hyperfixation on “existential risks” and trying to optimize for lives 100,000 years in the future at the expense of lives today. Their “leading philosophers” say unhinged things about this: one of them claims that delaying the technological singularity is “costing” us something like 250 billion lives per second, since in the future when we’re an intergalactic civilization with 500 trillion people, that’s how many people will die every second before we have post-Star Trek levels of technology. Somehow this is taken by actual thinking human beings to be a compelling argument instead of a reductio ad absurdum of the position.

The lack of any temporal discounting means that they see things that actually matter–like climate change, a lack of healthcare, or the ravages of global capitalism–as fundamentally unimportant. After all, if you can save 30 trillion lives in the year 45,000, who cares if a few billion die in the year 2060? The eventual impact of this is that most of them have talked themselves into thinking that AI “alignment” is the place they should all be focusing all their resources, since Robot God will either save us all from death forever or usher in human extinction, and thus its future utility numbers are either infinitely positive or infinitely negative. Therefore, they all insist that anyone not giving all their money and time to science fiction AI grifts like MIRI is fundamentally irrational and that trying to help actual people who are actually suffering right now is dumb, short sighted, and based in emotion (pejorative) instead of reason.

They’re fucking infuriating grifters.

Neat!

Does it say what threw the flag. I’m certainly not seeing anything in the history.

That’s very cool. Does it work on Hexbear?

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It would be such an offbeat thing to do, since staff were actually paid.

“Oh yeah I was paid $50/hr to observe an orgy and note orgasms without participating or interfering in any way” would be a great conversation starter

Been a cuck before for free

, but getting paid would be the dream. :p