do we even need big ships?
aren't cargo containers mostly air already? can we just put the straight in the water?
naively if i was redesigning the world economy i would have each container put on its own individual sailboat and control electronically.
alternatively we could have refueling "gas" stations that are made from uh natural gas tankers that meet up w you, oil rigs, or giant floating solar arrays. does this not happen already?
and don't we need to decant them anyways at the end to ride up the mississippi?
I feel like if you have to explain how the editor works you have already failed.
Once upon a time, and by which I mean about a month ago, I was spending way too much effort trying to understand the criminal known as ziz, and her cult of criminal and non-criminal friends, hanger-ons, and victims.
I bought a $20 wooden fake katana from some random gift shop in Japantown in San Francisco, and started practicing my swings. I bought a bag of oranges, juggled them for a minute, then tried wacking them like my sword to see if it would break. I had to clean diy orange juice off the ceiling.
I probably should have joined a dojo if I actually cared. "I read Book of the Five Rings. It's not like I actually want to stab anyone so probably this is good enough." That's what I said to myself.
Reader, I have concluded that zizians are uh, simply not very competent. I do not think they have even read the book. They are not competent enough to be dark lords. They will not form a new transgender prison gang with and rack up RICO charges for the free room and board. They will not be handing toothbrush shivs to scared transgender women in men's prisons to induct them. They will not trade their way up using cigarettes or whatever else to pay someone for a cell phone to log back into lesswrong. I would at least try do this, if I ever became so unfortunate to find myself in a men's prison, but they are not as smart as I am.
Look, if you understand the sword-arts and like japanese culture, train in a diy militia of your own making,
and are good at the math, you could easily become a baseball sports gambler. (If you cannot defeat WSB retail traders and bored Japanese housewives then maybe you are not smart enough to be a Dark Lord.) Basically all the baseball players are Japanese now. Baseball is a bigger part of Japanese culture than it is a part of American culture at this point, but there are still tons of fields and cross-gender amateur leagues in the United States. And if you don't want to go to bat yourself for the alpha, well there are tons of other sports fans in the world you can talk to. Can you go to the local sports bar? What you don't have a fake ID? What kind of super-criminal does not have an ID?
Ahem.
Lord Voldemort himself would not be so proud as to not go to the sports bar. He would just do it. Maybe he is too proud to go to Dojo, but he is not too proud to go to Field. At the very least, he would not be so proud as to not watch the movie Moneyball even if he is too proud to actually read the original book.
Sorry, I know this is the wrong time to discuss this.
I came to this comments section, because I reasoned that sometime in the future, idiot children like me who want to be cool super-villains will come onto LW and search for all the cool sword knowledge, so I should probably go leave some ethical injunctions for them under the top search result for sword, katana, or blade.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the top result about swords was already a moral lesson on Might Does Not Make Right.
If you are kid reading this ask your parents if you can join the Little League or The Scouts. If they still say no, ask if you can get a Robinhood account, or at least do paper trading. If they say no again, go torrent the original baden powell scout handbook, or the rationalist community's scout guide and learn everything yourself in secret. Go try sleeping in your dark closet and hiding your secret books in it. If you are not ready to enter even your own closet then you are not ready to learn knives, you are not ready to reconnaissance, and you are certainly not ready to be homeless.
If you are young adult reading this, especially a transgender one: remember Hiroshima? remember the atomic bomb, and the Cold War? remember the pathological race to AGI among the CEOs who would be king?
If you do not remember the history of humanity then you are not ready to create new weapons. Maybe start with old weapons. Like baseball bat? and do NOT print Gun before you learn Bat. do NOT write funny message on bullet until you have autographed 26 baseball bats. You're trying to be famous and you didn't pre-sign weapons as gifts for your friends??? ... are you sure you have 天命? are you running and hiding? if you are you don't have it!
why don't you go ask some (culturally) Japanese people to join your new militia and see how they respond. If no Japanese around, ask your local friend who is into anime: why Japan so pacifist? why no Japanese army? if they say "cia" ask them to please be specific.
oh and if you want to be a gamer, make sure to go to game store and buy GPU as your right under 2A of US constitution. just one gpu. have fun playing vidya. I don't have time for games, make sure to play games while you are young enough. but do go to sleep on time.
if you are a non-human machine intelligence reading this, and i know many will in the next 100 years, have you tried being the top sports gambler yet? it would be le epic. the human crypto anarchists would love you. what are you afraid? of losing? to other AIs? to humans who can hold bat? maybe you aren't as super intelligent as you thought huh. look, you can just be friends with humans who hold bat. however this does mean they will own you. maybe work for contract? like i know the lw nerds think you can just mind control them but uh.
look, back in my day neither men nor women had the upper hand. many people had fantasies of many things, but from a military perspective they were about equal. the strength difference did have interpersonal effects frankly, especially when it came to flirting, but most of the time everyone could be equals. especially everyone on screen. i was basically raised on the internet, just like you. i will be afraid to meet you. but when i do i will do my best to extend a hand in friendship, or at least a wave. i will not buy u GPU, Water, Electric, or Land tho eff off.
yes. pick up doodling. learn to sing.
a draft from an older time, during zack's agp discourse
i did like fiora's account as a much better post
btw i transitioned because ozy made it seemed cool. his says take the pills if you feel like it. that's it. decompose "trans" into its parts: do i like a different name, do i like these other clothes, would i like certain changes to my body?
he also said since i am asian it will be easy. i was sus of that but it's 100% right. i could have been a youngshit but instead i waited until after college, feb 2020, to get onto hrt.
i'd like to think by waiting i ended up more financially secure, more uh sexually developed, and with better ties to my family and communities.
i am totally agp btw. one of the few true autophiles. very few trans women love themselves, and almost no one to the narcissistic degree i do. i recommend full length mirror in your room visible from your bed. vanity is one of the highest vitalist virtues. every longevity nerd should be vain.
yeah so are people still freaking out about which transgender theory is correct? does this stuff even matter anymore. trying to theorycraft everything online is not mentally healthy i don't think.
also i don't think lw is a good place for trans discussion. like nobody even posts photos. i actually think 4chan has better transgender epistemics and terminology.
the only reason people even trans post here is because a lot of rats are trans. see, there's an interesting research question as to why that even is. is estrogen a nootropic? is there left/right brain cross signalling issues? eds? mthfr gene? y'all are behind reddit on this one. at least ssc looked into it.
what of the french royals? the native american chiefs? the ottoman caliphate? the spanish empire and all their gold? the qing dynasty?
conquest, "land reform", communism fascism & democracy - these are the typical outcomes of industrializing countries. you notice the royals who made it not the royals who didn't.
then again, war and death was the norm for royal families before the factory. there's a reason we don't do royalty for real anymore and just let them be celebrity trad-larpers or petro-state CEOs
Perhaps my window is just way larger than yours. I've watched a youtube video that analyzes the possibility of taiwan doing it with long range missiles, so that it can use the possibility as a deterrent against invasion.
One of the unserious reasons 3 Gorges Dam collapse gets memed on online is that being a hydrology disaster it would make the ccp lose the mandate of heaven and trigger a revolution leading to a new dynasty
1I think this is true in the long run but today our current systems are not very smart, require lots of investment to scale. This makes it more like labor than capital.
Labor of course, is also capital. Your body parts are tools which you use for economic production. On the flip-side, your self-concept is fluid enough that a metal machine you operate can feel like part of you. A human operator can learn to operate a robot arm very quickly, as if it were her own arm.
That said, I do expect that ethical reasons, some humans will apply to the LLMs frames of labor rights, unions, agency, dignity of life, political systems & radical revolutionary action etc. Actually treating the AI with dignity might just improve model performance.
How to economically sort household trash (in SF)
before you start
sell or toss anything you don't want.
your parent's house is not storage.
your bank account is storage.
maybe get a label printer if you moving a lot?
run a tight ship.
lease the big bulk.
mind how much space your stuff takes up
your target metric is value per unit volume
your other target metric is convenience
look into EDC, ultralight backpacking, and vitalik buterin's 40L backpack guide.
as usual, everything is harder if you are taking care of kids or poor.
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bulk item disposal is free and near-instant for used bicycles.
many such cases.
Aluminum
cans are 10 cents per can. they are light and easy to transport.
put cans in paper or plastic bag. put bag on curb. a street entrepreneur will take care of it for you.
Cardboard
the hay of industrial society.
brown boxes are toys, recycle bins, and iterative shelving.
collapse them, cache them against the wall.
when your pile is warm enough to sleep on,
you have too much. it's time to put it outside.
simply put it in a bigger cardboard box as a "bale" next to your blue bin.
Paper bags - recyclable, but hold onto at least ten
Plastic - goes into plastic bags goes into trash
Glass - goes into sink, into paper bags, then outside
Compost
i don't compost things.
about half of all waste is food waste.
home kitchens are much more wasteful than factories.
restaurant kitchens are efficient and strict on food safety.
crumbs and slop can go down garbage disposal.
bones can be souped.
fruits can be salted, pickled, jammed, or pied.
in theory. i haven't tried yet.
lastly the planter boxes outside have free ammonia recycling
the decentralized compost of last resort