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In the first Foundation story, there's a weird mention of applying symbolic logic to human language that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. Campbell insisted upon it because

he felt in our discussions that symbolic logic, further developed, would so clear up the mysteries of the human mind as to leave human actions predictable. The reason human beings are so unpredictable was we didn't really know what they were saying and thinking because language is generally used obscurely. So what we needed was something that would unobscure the language and leave everything clear.

Clear being a fortuitous choice of wording on Asimov's part there, given, well.

TESCREAL and Scientology don't just share methodology; they both descend directly from "Golden Age" science fiction. In this essay I will

"And a waifu is only a waifu, but a good cigar is a smoke."

Mastodon has Reply Guys. Lemmy has Cater To Me Whilst I Am Literally, Not Figuratively, Taking a Shit Guys.

banned for obnoxious not-pology

If we trace one ancestry path back to science-fiction fandom, well, there's John W. Campbell.

I'm trying to think of a polite way to say "in short, no" and "the linked tweet having "effectivealtruism" in it twice should have been a clue", because I'm not that mean, but I probably need more coffee too.

I'm sure that taking a noisy average of everything posted on Twitter about Gödel machines will produce a Gödel machine, any day now.

Step 2: the Gödel machine becomes the monolith from 2001 that can do anything not explicitly prohibited by the laws of physics

"Pronouns" with a hard R

Bio people here are poorly informed. Just in general some of the presentations are factually incorrect

B-but rationalists are experts at covalent bonds

Also meeting people.... as a woman I have never felt as ignored and disrespected as I have in some instances the pa...

I'm sure the feedback becomes more positive in the cut-off part, no doubt about it

More-crap-ter Projection

Yeah, that juxtaposition makes no sense to me. How does the machine that remixes existing text and makes it worse become anything that can "recursively self-improve"? Show your work.

It's still hard to beat the dck pck