It’s a strange hill to die on, some weird teacher hand-shaking ritual. But honestly, how much longer are we going to pretend religious teachings that restrict women from touching men even just to shake hands are anything but massively sexist?
Personally I’m conflicted. Not because the religious excuse is tolerable. Because I don’t like the idea of forcing anyone to touch someone they don’t want to or be touched by someone they don’t want to in any situation that isn’t urgently serious. Won’t allow a heimlich is one thing, won’t allow… something as stupid as a handshake? What hill am I willing to die on?
Yeah I’m all for abolishing this mandatory handshake crap, especially if it’s one of those creepy authoritarian rituals meant to symbolize “I am the teacher, you are the pupil, you will prostrate yourself before me and accept my authority.”
Growing up I had some friends who transferred to my school from a private school, and they had to do humiliating shit like that.
But this clearly isn’t about that.
The tricky thing is that neither side is framing it as a matter of individual rights, but as preserving cultural integrity.
Then there’s us steel feminists who actually frame it as a matter of individual rights, bodily autonomy and the right to have whatever boundaries one wishes to have. We might criticize the structures that lead to people having widespread norms of such segregation in their physical contact (but also recognize that it’s not a clear-cut case of “white people’s arbitrary rules are Just Better™”), but the hill we are fully intending to die on is “boundaries matter, respect them no matter how silly you think they are”.
First they came for the muslims and I didn’t speak out because I didn’t want to get labelled a sexism apologist
Then they came for the neurodivergent and I didn’t speak out because I didn’t want to get labelled a creep apologist
Then they came for me, and other people didn’t speak out because we had already established firm precedent that the will of the mob overrides bodily autonomy
i do actually think a communist revolution in Japan or Australia would increase life expectancy- primarily because of free housing and the consequent end of homelessness. Plus the proposed platform of the Japanese Communist Party seems to me to be preferable to the policy of the current Japanese government.
Momentum is building for ending homelessness by giving people homes, there has already been a trial program in Melbourne with promising results.
It’s based on cost reduction instead of ideology, but what can you do.
Are there empty homes in Australia/Japan that could be given to the homeless? “Free housing” kind of requires there to be housing to give away freely and if the housing market is a free market,* then the price of housing already accurately reflects how much is available.
If they’re not giving homes away for almost free, then: There are fewer homes than are demanded or there is a market intervention that makes it bad business to earn a dollar by selling a $4 home for $5.
(My guess is: “Both.”)
My actual guess is: There are probably empty homes available for very cheap, but they’re far away from urban centers where the homeless want to be. All the homes near urban centers are either already lived in or very temporarily empty and giving the temporarily empty to the homeless just means the people who would have bought them e.g. when moving to the city to pursue their career now cannot buy that home.
This is definitely a problem locally - we have (rounded numbers) 2.5 million homes for 5 million people, that is, 1 home for every two people. The average family is 4 people. That is: We have more than enough homes, I could buy a house for less than a single years wage. A shitty house far from everywhere I want to be, but I can. Instituting communism would not solve our homelessness problem because our homelessness problem is caused by the fact that our homeless would rather be homeless than live in their assigned homes, far from their community of fellow homeless. Where they want to be is in the city centers, and no amount of communism will make land value in the city center go down, it will, at most, make it illegal to make housing decisions based on land value (Hint: this is a terrible idea.)
*hahaha i slay :(
Technically there are plenty of empty homes in the city centre, although these tend to be expensive apartments being held by investors.
Homelessness is typically an intersection of various mental health conditions that make it difficult to hold a job or even access welfare payments, thus making it impossible to rent accommodation. It turns out that insisting people solve this before giving them access to housing doesn’t work well, and that putting people in secure homes makes it a lot easier to manage whatever it was that was messing them up in the first place, creating a self-sustaining system.
Apparently this has been tried in Utah to good effect, although I don’t know much about that.
I mean yes there can be various instances of market failure in allocating new housing, but that is not the major issue when homelessness is considered.
Technically there are plenty of empty homes in the city centre, although these tend to be expensive apartments being held by investors.
That would be:
or there is a market intervention that makes it bad business to earn a dollar by selling a $4 home for $5.
Specifically, it is the market intervention that you’re not allowed to kick people out with a days notice. Those investment companies would love to rent those apartments out for any dollar amount higher than the maintenance cost of renting them out, but that makes them harder to sell because they cannot kick out the renters if the new owner doesn’t want them.
But yes absolutely, there are more, other issues than “homes in city centers are expensive for a reason.” That’s just the first, most obvious issue.
Humorous anecdote time:
I remember a day ~10 years ago when I was still a student. I lived in 36 square meters for approximately USD 600.
I received an offer from an alcoholic I met at the train station - he’d rent out his ~80 m2 apartment to me for $300, because it was an apartment assigned to him by the state - that is, for free - in a city he didn’t want to live in. He’d rather go be homeless in the capital with an income of my $300 than stay in this city where he didn’t know anybody and had nothing to do but drink alone and chat with strangers on the train station. Solving his problem wouldn’t take free housing - he had that - it would take “free housing in the location where he wanted,” which, pro-tip, is also where everybody else wants to live so good luck with that.
I didn’t take his offer, but say that I did. I guess the market value of his apartment rent was probably around $800 or so, we’ll go with 800 for easy math. That means that the state pays $800 to him. He then gives $800 worth of housing to me, in return for $300 from me.
In an attempt to solve the homelessness problem, the state has spent $800 to give me, the son of wealthy parents, $500 worth of housing subsidies and him, the alcoholic, $300 drinking money to spend while homeless. A++ governance, vote Communist for more economic efficiencya solution to the housing crisis.
I swear, my anarchist sentiments are not from fuck-you-got-mine, they’re from the fact that the state actively ruins value. Close all services and subsidies, Universal Basic Income starts today.
I swear, my anarchist sentiments are not from fuck-you-got-mine, they’re from the fact that the state actively ruins value. Close all services and subsidies, Universal Basic Income starts today.
Nordic anarcho-welfarists roll call, #2 reporting in!
Also, is there a name for the phenomenon where governmnent attempts to address individual discrimination (such as the landlord kicking out perfectly nice tenants because they don’t like their face) end up creating systematic discrimination instead (such as landlords refusing to take tenants from certain marginalized groups because they don’t want to bear the risk of getting a shitty tenant they can’t kick out)?
Arcade City creates an open marketplace between drivers and riders. It takes 10 percent of the rides paid through the app, which confirms transactions using the blockchain, the digital payment technology also used for bitcoin, but also allow drivers to establish their own forms of financial transaction. It plans to eventually offer ridesharing insurance and payment processing.
Drivers and riders are encouraged to set a predetermined rate before agreeing to a ride. Arcade City drivers are quick to respond to ride requests. Since there is no established reviewing system, many drivers post screenshots of their Uber ratings and reviews. Right now drivers and riders are encouraged to negotiate a price and method of payment before pickup. When the app eventually relaunches, blockchain payments will allow payments to be processed directly between the interested parties. No third party encryption service will be required to play the matchmaker and validation of data.
In David’s long-term vision of Arcade City, the app will have its own rating system and community features. It will also allow riders to build relationships with preferred drivers, as opposed to the matchmaking black box that assigns Uber drivers and riders.
I apparently have the magic powers of conjuring things into existence just by describing them.
On the spectrum of Uber alternatives, Arcade City has been labeled as the black market solution. Other, more Uber-esque ridesharing apps like GetMe, Dryver, Ride Austin, Wingz, and Fare are trying to fill in the void left by Uber’s exodus from Austin, and the city is even looking to allocate taxpayer dollars to fund a homegrown ridesharing service.
The phrase “black market” simplifies the mission of Arcade City, however, because it really seeks to build an infrastructure to disrupt any centralized ridesharing intermediator. In fact, the City of Austin has confirmed that Arcade City is legal, as long as the ride doesn’t exceed the federal reimbursement rate of 54 cents per mile.
Boo price ceilings, but everything else sounds reasonable. Compared to the alternatives I mean; why the cuck does anyone think creating a government ridesharing service would be an A) legitimate and B) useful way of using robbed money?
I know the guy behind this. On a personal level he is… unsavory to put it best, and I think his reddit AMA speaks for itself on a professional level (Note that throwaway_bob177’s question, unanswered on the AMA, was asked on Chris’s facebook first, and then Chris told him to post it to the AMA which he did right after.)
So all we need is someone better to implement the idea then. Unfortunately I’m only at the stage where I’m learning the things I need to do such things so I can’t do this myself YGM.
aprilwitching asked: like 4.5 - 5 or something, at a glance. more bc i happen to fall into some "broadly true of this demographic" categories than bc i read the internet stuff you guys like or am a transhumanist or libertarian or agree with you on most ideological points or anything like that (i do softcore refuse to identify with political labels, frex, but it's out of resounding i-don't-give-a-damn-itis rather than contrarianism or believing i have some hot new boundary-busting take on it all)
Yeah I went back and did the math, and it’s possible to be labeled as “Very Rationalist Adjacent” merely by being a sufficiently queer person in their early twenties. Does this mean that Rationalists and SJWs are on the same team after all????
Some background assumptions apply. Offer void outside the diaspora tumblrs. I could’ve added a bunch of tests to check the assumptions, but this is tumblr, not rspec, so I didn’t.
But now that we’re on the topic…
So there’s this idea that a lot of the things we take for granted are actually pretty terrible and should not be that way…
and that what we think is simple and obvious, isn’t…
and that we could have a dramatically better society if we fixed certain systematic issues…
that are extremely deep-ingrained in people’s brains and hard to eradicate…
and thus most people who loudly cheer for their eradication still fail to actually achieve substantial progress…
and doing it carelessly makes one just fall into an uncanny valley of “even worse off than before trying”…
and if progress is made, some of it is easily internalized and becomes absolutely obvious, while other forms require constant pumping against entropy…
and that successfully doing such things, in an environment which doesn’t have social structures and institutions rewarding actually getting it right and offering clear actionable strategies for achieving it, is really difficult and probably tragically out of reach for huge amounts of people…
but when people and communities actually succeed in it they create significant value for people and enable new forms of human flourishing…
and that the people flocking into those communities tend to disproportionately be those who are the most hurt by such things and able to recognize them…
and it reliably ends up generating certain insights that are similar with the insights another idea that shares such characteristics ends up generating…
…then the idea that perhaps they might actually have something in common and might benefit from examining each other’s claims and ideas and insights for whatever might be useful because they share the universe they operate in and some of the goals they work towards…
Arcade City creates an open marketplace between drivers and riders. It takes 10 percent of the rides paid through the app, which confirms transactions using the blockchain, the digital payment technology also used for bitcoin, but also allow drivers to establish their own forms of financial transaction. It plans to eventually offer ridesharing insurance and payment processing.
Drivers and riders are encouraged to set a predetermined rate before agreeing to a ride. Arcade City drivers are quick to respond to ride requests. Since there is no established reviewing system, many drivers post screenshots of their Uber ratings and reviews. Right now drivers and riders are encouraged to negotiate a price and method of payment before pickup. When the app eventually relaunches, blockchain payments will allow payments to be processed directly between the interested parties. No third party encryption service will be required to play the matchmaker and validation of data.
In David’s long-term vision of Arcade City, the app will have its own rating system and community features. It will also allow riders to build relationships with preferred drivers, as opposed to the matchmaking black box that assigns Uber drivers and riders.
I apparently have the magic powers of conjuring things into existence just by describing them.
On the spectrum of Uber alternatives, Arcade City has been labeled as the black market solution. Other, more Uber-esque ridesharing apps like GetMe, Dryver, Ride Austin, Wingz, and Fare are trying to fill in the void left by Uber’s exodus from Austin, and the city is even looking to allocate taxpayer dollars to fund a homegrown ridesharing service.
The phrase “black market” simplifies the mission of Arcade City, however, because it really seeks to build an infrastructure to disrupt any centralized ridesharing intermediator. In fact, the City of Austin has confirmed that Arcade City is legal, as long as the ride doesn’t exceed the federal reimbursement rate of 54 cents per mile.
Boo price ceilings, but everything else sounds reasonable. Compared to the alternatives I mean; why the cuck does anyone think creating a government ridesharing service would be an A) legitimate and B) useful way of using robbed money?
#decolonizeyourtastebuds there is no such thing as israeli food, there isn’t even just one blanket term for Palestinian foods, like every other country it’s always region specific
Israel taking traditional Palestinian food and claiming it as their own is 100% an act of erasure and violence. they are quite literally trying to usurp Palestine’s land, history and now even their culture it’s evil.
One of the considerable components to genocide is cultural genocide where the persecuting party attempts to remove cultural significance from territories occupied. This is 100% an example of that.
You can look in an Israeli cookbook and find meals from every continent. They’re stealing from everyone.
I spy three goyim with no understanding of Jewish history or culture
Which is ironic because many of your families’ countries are probably the cause of Israel having such a diverse cuisine…. That’s diasporic violence for you!
Me personally, I commented solely on the Israeli cookbook I chanced upon that literally stated the country of origin of every meal, none of which were Israel. I’m not denying existence of Israel, and I’m not being anti Semitic. Don’t blow everything out of proportion.
You’re literally calling us thieves of cultures from around the world? The Jewish diaspora is worldwide. There are Jews in China, in the Middle East, India, Africa, Latin America… We were forced out of many of those countries where we had lived for perhaps thousands of years and took our cuisines with us, to Israel. Over 50% of Israel’s population is Mizrahi. We’re not “taking traditional Palestinian food” or committing genocide. It’s our cultures we’re continuing. We’re not stealing, stop playing robbed Cossack.
& I never accused you of denying Israel’s existence.
See when goyim say Jews stole the culture what they really mean is:
“those fucking Jews couldn’t just die no they had to keep living and blend their Jewynes with the places they’ve been and been chased out of. Why can’t they just fucking die already.”
I mean, I constantly hear the bullshit that “Jews are appropriating middle eastern food and culture”, but how do you repeat something like “Jews steal culture from all around the world” and still think you’re anything but a vile Jew-hater?
Yeah, I was wondering how long it’s going to take people to start accusing us of stealing schnitzels.
Americans better stop eating hamburgers and pizza…
Guys, let’s try this all over again: Many Israeli Jews are from communities that traditionally cooked Middle Eastern foods.
These foods took off with other Israelis because they are made from local ingredients, suit the climate, and taste good. (Also because Yemenite immigrants in the early 20th century apparently managed to launch a whole felafel industry.) Things like hummus have now been eaten by all Israelis for at least three generations or so.
Other Israelis have roots in communities that cooked other stuff. Sometimes they make this stuff too.
None of this is hard to understand.
what do people expect? jews who returned or were born there or live outside israel or whatever should just eat tasteless gruel made of psyllium husk and oat bran, to make sure no one’s appropriating moroccan/ukrainian/yemenite/spanish/whatever food?
i mean, i guess if jews just stopped eating that would solve the problem of jews existing. wait… ah, now i get it. it would be better if we just didn’t exist, wouldn’t it?
did u know that… copying not-copyrighted things and then citing your sources is stealing?
Like, hot dogs are from Germany and pizza is from Italy, and yet you could make an “American food” cookbook that included both of those.
There is nothing new under the sun, all work is derivative, etc.
EURASIANS STOP EATING POTATOES RIGHT NOW YESTERDAY
"I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.
Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”
Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.” “Did you catch many?” I asked. “Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.”"
ilzolende asked: As someone who will be replacing her computer and can probably talk people into buying her a keyboard soon, I would love to hear your sales pitch for [some pre-customized version of] vim. (Also, I have written all the HTML for a website myself, but I like Jekyll better, because I can update template-y things once and have the *computer* update them everywhere, and write pages in Markdown.)
I guess if we’re considering the laptop as a whole “buy just Illustrator CS5/6 and also a copy of Windows” is an option
A copy of Windows will probably come alongside the laptop if you buy it new.
why the fuck does Adobe only sell its current products as a subscription service, how on earth are “you’re never forced to upgrade” or “once the apps are installed, you won’t need an internet connection to use them” or “keep your files as long as you like” features, those are basic human decency, what gives?
It’s SAAS: Suck Away All $
It’s evil, but I can totally see why they are doing it. They can get away with it, and all their customers’ money, so they will do it.
There’s also the “see if inkscape is better than I think it is” option, but I can’t do it quite yet, because every time I’ve tried to set it up on my computer it doesn’t work.
Yes, I think that would be prudent; in the best case you could break the shackles of evil software corp dependency completely. And if you after trying it out on your new laptop still think you’d rather go through the pain of hackintoshing instead of the pain of learning a free program, you could proceed with it.
I don’t need a “always silent” computer, I need a “fairly quiet most of the time, and essentially silent when I quit everything but Audacity” computer.
In that case I suppose the core i series zenbook or a thinkpad would be the better option then. I can build a reasonable thinkpad on the Lenovo website for ~$1k for ~corp quality~ (T460/X260/X1 Carbon all seem to end up around the same price so the choice is mostly about the form factor, shape, etc.), while a good configuration of the sm0l and pretty Asus seems to be around $800. If more money is available, investing in extra screen resolution and SSD space can be useful.
How much pain is hackintoshing, how much pain is trying to get old Adobe software with a student discount, and how much pain is trying to find a used computer that’s not a lemon?
Wifi won’t work like, ever. The rest of the stuff will require careful configuration and hacking around the system on a far lower level than most people are comfortable with, but guides exist etc. and both the thinkpad and zenbook will ultimately end up otherwise perfectly usable.
Personally I’d prefer trying alternative software first, then trying hackintoshing, then trying to pay EvilCorp1 for a new license on EvilCorp2’s OS.
I’m using [spf13-vim](http://vim.spf13.com/) with some customization; it has nice defaults and a lot of awesomeness and is very simple to install with a straight-out-of-the-box configuration that works well unless one has a synesthesia thing where stuff absolutely needs to be differently colored on different languages (a simple but non-trivial editing of the colorscheme is required then).
Basically, the idea is that one doesn’t never ever need to move one’s hands away, because every command is reachable easily from there and touch typing feels so good. Using dvorak as a layout synergizes incredibly well because one’s fingers need to leave the row much less often and the repetition between hands feels very low-effort and “lazy” in an extremely good way.
And the final component of this awesomeness is a 60% keyboard which ditches all the unnecessary keys that one can’t use anyway because one’s hands would need to leave their places, and replaces them with fn-layer keys that can be easily reached while keeping hands “glued” to their positions. They usually cost around $100 (but can be found *a lot* cheaper if one is willing to compromise a bit on quality; still superior to regular rubber-domes though) and are 100% worth it in my opinion. Geeking out over switches and sounds and keycap materials and manufacturers etc. is beyond the scope of this post but I’m way too eager to do it if requested. It’s complicated. It’s interesting. It feels and sounds so good. Your favorite shoes provide valuable evidence. And you can customize them without limits, to make your keyboard 100% perfect for yourself.
Personally, I’m using a KBP V60 with Matias Quiet Tactile switches because I wanted to prioritize softness of noise (mechanical keyboards are louder than regular ones; how much depends on a lot of factors) and a distinct tactile feel for writing. Zero regrets. My favorite shoes are a bit like knee-length combat boots but a lot softer, which is exactly what one would expect with this particular switch. Creepy how accurate that shoe thing is. I wish the keycaps were doubleshot PBT instead of ABS, but the keycap selection for Matias (=Alps) is less broad than it is for Cherry, and I can’t remember the fn key locations if I can’t see the printings (YGM), so I haven’t customized that stuff yet.
Good to hear regarding Dvorak, although if I can’t get an appropriate keyboard cover (this would also make cleaning easier) with it I’m probably going to have trouble getting started.
Stickers on a regular cover would be the easiest option; I used home-made stickers and when they were worn out I could touch-type. Afaik there exists only one actual dvorak kb cover for sale and it’s for mac.
e8u asked: 60 percent keyboards are not good. Those keys are *not* unnecessary, and putting them behind a fn key turns basic shortcuts into the Vulcan nerve pinch. I suspect a ploy to make "hackers" willing to buy keyboards with fewer keyswitches.
First of all, I don’t need to reach around when I can just press down the fn key on my left pinky (people press capslock by accident sometimes, it’s that convenient of a location) and not move my hands away from their proper positions. The only thing I could complain about is the way I have to choose between having a r-alt and the fn key below my right thumb because that would allow me to use ctrl at the “capslock” location, but that’s a flaw in the language my parents taught me, not 60% keyboards.
Second, I can have my mouse way closer to my right hand when there are no useless keys in the way. It’s more ergonomic that way.
Third, I can actually carry my keyboard around and look only like an obnoxious nerd instead of a 80s cyberpunk character wannabe.
(The later Symbolics keyboards, with the Square, Circle, and Triangle are also acceptable, because they named them (”Blockhead”, “Bubblehead”, and “Pinhead”) which is ADORABLE.)
Now with a scoring guide (choose one or none from each sub-category)
Age:
21-25 years +1
16-20 +½
26-30 years +½
Jewishness:
Yes +1
Kind of + ½
Gender:
trans woman (regardless of hormone usage) +1
any kind of amab using estrogen +1
amab non-binary (no estrogen) +¾
other non-cis or dubiously cis (afab trans, agender, magic button trans, etc.) +½
cis by default (not magic button trans) +¼
Poly:
Yes +1
Kind of, or open to the idea +½
Sexuality, part A:
gray-asexual or demisexual +1
asexual +½
asexual and kinky +1
kinky +½
Sexuality, part B (replace “sexual” with “romantic” if doing so would give you a higher score):
bisexual, pansexual, sapiosexual, any other kind of “gender isn’t really such a big deal"sexual +1
any kind of “gender isn’t a massive deal but it’s somewhat of a deal"sexual +½
gendersexual, but would take the bisexuality pill +½
Gifted child:
very +½ (eg. peerless in one’s childhood environment, or not peerless, but with a highly unusual peer group)
quite +¼ (eg. one of the highest-achieving in one’s slightly less highly unusual peer group)
Badbrains:
at least 2 of: ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression at least to a sub-clinical but noticeable degree +½
one of them +¼
Field:
CS student, or working in programming, AI, CS, etc. +1
self-learning any of the above +½
student or working in mathematics +½
Politics, part 1:
supports open borders, or at least massively increased immigration +½
supports significantly increased immigration +¼
Politics, part 2:
supports basic income by whatever name one wishes to use +½
supports some other kind of less bureaucratic, more market-based approach to welfare +¼
Politics, extra questions (can’t increase the total politics score over 1):
refuses to identify with ideological labels +½
identifies with a weird made-up “non-“ideological label +½ (“futarchy”, “meta-level politics”, etc.)
Geeking out:
transhumanist nerd stuff +1
any other uncommon and specific nerd stuff +1
less unusual SF/F or STEM nerd stuff +½
HPMoR, 3 Worlds Collide, Dragon-Tyrant (add scores from each):
has read all of it, or most and intends to finish +1/3
has read a lot but doesn’t intend to finish, or is starting +1/6
SSC:
regularly +1
sometimes +½
rarely +¼
I tried to not break legacy results compatibility so most people’s scores should be the same and this would just clarify the questionnaire; if people’s results change, it’s because I’ve changed some things to better reflect the original intent based on data acquired so far (looking especially at you, @sigmaleph, because that “politics” answer was the most stereotypical rationalist thing ever and I’m embarrassed to have overlooked that possibility)
And now I have the result categories as well:
(break ties with Newcomb’s dilemma; one-boxers upwards, two-boxers downwards)
12: The Chosen One
10-12: True Yudbot of the Hivemind
8-10: Stereotypical Rationalist
6-8: Typical Rationalist
4-6: Quite rationalist-adjacent
2-4: Kind of adjacent I guess
0-2: I don’t know how you ended up taking the survey, please tell me your story
[attaches “True Yudbot of the Hivemind” keychain to keyring, which even without that has more random keychains than it does useful items]
I wonder if the Jewishness in the rationalist community is just confirmation bias, Jews inviting people from their peer group to join tumblr, or a memetic influence of Jewish scholarship. Like Saul Kripke’s direct reference theory, which applies principles from rabbinic literature and scholarship to the semantics of human language.
It doesn’t seem to be much more concentrated than in an arbitrary group of geeky college kids. We’re drawing from the same population.
My spreadsheets are showing that clusters 1 and 3 are 50% more likely to be “religion: jewish” than 0 and 6, while cluster 3 is 50% more likely and cluster 1 >100% more likely to have “religious background: jewish” than 0 and 6.
