What the astrologers forget is that constellation does not imply causation.
Gate Of Heavens’s Tweets
It's very rude of you to be hurt by me. Even if you have no intention of carrying it out, you're still implicitly threatening revenge.
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"Wait. Wait! What if we were to kill him… in the present?" —Claus von Stauffenberg, after years of fruitless research in time travel physics
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Up Shutter Five: like Up Goer Five, but you can only use the zero most common words.
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When the moon hits your eye & you fall down and die, this is Sparta
When the world seems to shine in the Hell where you dine, this is Sparta
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Reality exists distributed across old stored versions of stupid essays about its themes—the doctrine of "it from nitwit lit crit git commit"
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It matters not how I'm half sunk,
How time has taken all my things,
Or how my legs don't have a trunk.
I am the king of all the kings.
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I am inordinately proud of my utilitarianism-themed Major-General's Song ripoff:
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It matters not how cold the ice,
How hard your breakfast now becomes,
I'll leave a note here that's concise:
I am the eater of your plums
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The dreaded "damnatio memetica" meant that the names of those who fell out of favour with the Senate would be erased from all viral content.
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Replying to
Anastasia interviews a mysterious French economist. She finds he's a man who obeys his own law—and creates his own demand (50 Shades of Say)
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Replying to
New Year's Eve, 2024. A woman meets an enigmatic businessman, not knowing her entire world... is about to change colour. (50 Shades of Grue)
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Every year, to maintain eternal youth, Dorian sheds a ghostly self—but after half a century, they escape the underworld. (50 Shades of Gray)
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Replying to
It matters not how strait the gate
You try to enter with your soul;
Solution there, it seems to me,
Is going through a bigger hole.
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It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll;
Solution there, it seems to me,
Is to succeed & reach your goal
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Replying to
"Can't go to afterlife until I've brought murderers to justice": ghost.
"...spent 10m googling detectives & picked next action": not ghost.
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Tip: Split your to-do list into small, manageable next actions. Otherwise, you might die with major unfinished business and become a ghost.
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Funding research on artificial intelligence safety. It's all fun & games until someone loses an I futureoflife.org/misc/AI
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A culture of betting on predictions encourages people to deceive each other about the strength of, and the evidence for, their beliefs.
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TIME: +1
HUMANS: ahhh what will it do next
TIME: +1
HUMANS: it's just messing with our expectations i bet
TIME: +1
HUMANS: ahhh foiled again
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An outrage economy in transition from hurtful-gatherers to angriculture.
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They used machine learning to optimise for clicks. Their AI hacked the world's nuclear arsenals & blew up everything except Geiger counters.
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I'm contemplating the infinite. I mean, I'm failing to contemplate anything finite.
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There were only seven Wonders of the World at first, but the Greeks soon realised they could wonder for more wonders.
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Ironically, not long after Shelley died, historians discovered records indicating King Ozymandias was an actual pair of human legs.
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Seeing the hard stone under the water may make you hesitant to dive in, even if you know it's deep. This applies to reductionism.
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90s is the cruellest decade, breeding
Furbies out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Tamagotchis with spring rain.
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On the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Only 90's kids will remember"
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I'm starting a charity to rid my master, the Earth Serpent, of this human-infested blemish you call a planet. It's called DEWORLD THE WORM
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GiveWell's new recommendations are out: they've added five new charities to their recommended list! effective-altruism.com/ea/bm/the_new_
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PSA: if you press <Return>+<Home> on a keyboard anywhere, your holoprovider is legally required to log you out of your amnesia booth.
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1. Have a good idea
2. Forget why it is a good idea
3. Think of an apparent improvement to the idea
4. Now it is no longer a good idea
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Only true 90s kids remember *NSYNC ("Sidereal Neopagan Syncretism"), a cult of astrology druids that built oracle pyramids all over America.
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"Ah, but a man's screech should exceed his gasp, or what do these go to eleven for?" —Robert Browning in Spinal Tap
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It matters not how dry the cup,
How overgrown with thorns the crown;
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It matters not how high the I,
How close squared bias to the ground,
My estimator must comply
With Rao and Crámer’s lower bound.
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It matters not how great the weight
Of dread exuding from the scroll.
I know Yog-Sothoth is the Gate;
My Masters dwell on the South Pole.
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It matters not how strange the gait,
How unpredictable the stroll;
As Minister of Silly Walks,
I have my legs under control.
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