promethea.incorporated

brave and steely-eyed and morally pure and a bit terrifying… /testimonials /evil /leet .ask? .ask_long?


To all the Tumblr users who tend to use tags very liberally:

thejadedkiwano:

Let’s play a game.
Type the following words into your tags box, then post the first automatic tag that comes up.
you, also, what, when, why, how, look, because, never

it turned out surprisingly #\it me

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1 month ago · tagged #even when it creates more than two orders of magnitude more value to you than it takes from me #also the second person in this country to take the GWWC pledge #whatever the outcome is #when there are trumps and other populists around #so why the fuck are you blaming nestle instead #also how on earth did the us become rojava's air force #this is what a feminism sometimes looks like #and it's not like you could've asked to buy them from me either because that's illegal too #i never said my ideals and goals were consistent without post-scarcity economies #shitposting · 28,120 notes · .permalink


Who the hell am I? That’s a pretty good question, and I think the answer is “my utility function”. That utility function is currently implemented in a 24-year-old genderqueer trans fem which does not understand what kind of metaphysical essence “identity” might mean once every answerable question is answered, but which uses those words as a shorthand to give people kind of the right idea. It has had many names in the past, it will have many names in the future, but you can call it by the name promethea. It finds the comic book reference amusing but completely unintentional. Its pronouns are “it” in its native language, but english-speakers should use whatever gender-neutral or just plain weird ones they wish.

So what does it do? It ruthlessly optimizes the world. It forced the government it’s currently subject to to let even non-binary people choose how they prefer to be misgendered instead of having that imposed upon them. It took over feminism and made Scott Alexander the secret and unwitting controller of its extremist side. It explains social justice with huge battle robots. It hacks brains and systems with the powers of smooth talking, value creation, and obscene determination. It might even be the Goddess of Everything Else in a very bad disguise. But most importantly, it is coming to the Bay Area.

4 months ago · tagged #also the second person in this country to take the GWWC pledge #and possibly the first one to really sign up for cryonics but the information is less reliable with that · 2 notes · .permalink