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Here are the results of our New Year Write-Like-Lsusr Masquerade. 3% Meditations on Suffering Meditations on Suffering by MeditationsOnShrimp technically satisfies all of the objective competition criteria. Congratulations on beating the ~8 billion people who did not participate in this tournament. You are in the top 0.00000002%. MeditationsOnShrimp wins this...

It's been a while since I hosted a competition. This time there is prize money! $500. Do you think you're a better writer than me? Now is your chance to prove it. I want to know whether human beings can pass for me. Your mission, should you choose to participate,...

You were born in 2007. From your perspective, the Internet has always existed. Facebook has always existed. Google has always existed. Smartphones have always existed. By the time you became old enough to use social media, social media had already evolved from "nominally social" to "superintelligent hostile optimization system working...

Commercial airplane tickets are divided up into coach, business class, and first class. In 2014, Etihad introduced The Residence, a premium experience above first class. The Residence isn't very popular. The reason The Residence isn't very popular is because of economics. A Residence flight is almost as expensive as a...

Disclaimer: This is Kongo Landwalker's translation of lsusr's fiction Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 9 into russian. Тур министерства по Комнате Тайн был сплошной пропагандой. Карта Мародеров указывала на существование другого входа, находящегося в женском туалете. — Хссс-шсссс сссс, — прошипела Луна имитируя Гарри. Раковина отодвинулась...

[Terminology note: "samatha", "jhana", "insight", "stream entry", "homunculus" and "non-local time" are technical jargon defined in Cyberbuddhist Jargon 1.0] To understand how meditation affects the brain from an outside (neuroscientific) vantage point, it is necessary to understand criticality. Criticality comes from the mathematical study of dynamical systems. Dynamical systems are...

> 1. Never explain why something important is important. > > 2. If you must explain it, don’t. > > 3. Knowing stuff others don’t know is most effective when others don’t know you know stuff they don’t know. > > 4. Language is largely made to show off, gossip,...