#obviously a demicanadian no question #maybe a runeloremaster? #tag yourself #our home and cherished land #(here acting mostly as an immigration tag but with a side of Canada)
#meme #long post #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”colorado”) #overly literal interpretations #but I’m going with the spirit of the rules for my own addition #(I would have gone back and reblogged from groangoddess) #(for better punchline-ness) #(but deactivated apparently)
Your fetish is the main topic of a two hours long movie where it’s applied to the whole world. There’s no sexy time, the whole movie is about the financial and societal consequences on your fucked up fetish on society.
Oppressive [Light Is Not Good] oligarchic dystopia…. but that’s pretty damn hot; you can just leave details to the imagination. Could range from less creepy (everybody’s just LARPing!) to creepy/hot mind-screw (modifying people to enthusiastically consent??!).
it’s really boring because there’s no conflict as everyone is satisfied with things, also there’s half an hour of exposition to explain how the fuck things are able to happen, like how people can keep giving birth to the same people multiple times, and other logistical issues
Everything takes five times as long because whatever you do, the recipient has to describe in eye-wateringly explicit detail what it’s like and how good it is.
Your boss spends half her time standing behind you, murmuring what a GOOD worker you are, go on, add another column to that spreadsheet, YES, just like that…
Society could not keep functioning if my main fetish were real. Too many deaths too fast, humanity itself would probably go extinct soon afterwards. Vore is so good tho, it’d be worth it
#okay so I’m conflating some stuff here #to create a world where my fetish isn’t routine you wouldn’t actually have to remove sleep entirely #just (”just”) tweak human neurology to have a much sharper line between consciousness and unconsciousness #or hell you could even keep dreaming in #sexuality and lack thereof #nsfw text #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me #rape tw #(for preceding posts)
Emotion Infusion, which is apparently a combination of “ability to enchant weapons”, “innate energy weapon”, and “ability to alter others’ emotions”.
I suppose that if this were fiction, the character archetype I’d be shoehorned into is “well-intentioned extremist trying to wirehead the world”. In reality, I don’t think I would go that far, although I could maybe hook up @wirehead-wannabe. (And you never know when an energy weapon will come in handy, even if I might very well end up reflexively stunning someone who startles me with a blast of paralysing terror. Oops.)
I wasn’t going to reblog this, but it’s the first tag-yourself meme I’ve seen that’s actually accurate. (Which is saying something, considering how many tag-yourself memes I’ve seen.)
Tags:
#lawful/neutral ace #I have no idea where I would even *get* flamingo feathers but other than that #asexuality #meme #there is probably some warning tag I should put on this but I am not sure what #homophobia?
Favorite Fandom: I…actually haven’t been all that active in fandom lately. I guess I could go with Star Trek?
Languages I Speak: I speak English. I can read okay Packaging French, but don’t expect me to write it, let alone do anything with spoken French.
Favourite Film Of 2015: Not all that into movies. Especially not into watching in theatres, which are too loud and don’t let you pause and have sunk costs (since you pay by the movie, that places pressure on you not to leave partway through if it’s boring).
I will say The Force Awakens, on the grounds that it is a movie that I have watched and that I know to be from 2015. I watched it for cultural literacy reasons and do not really have an opinion on how good it was (”favourite” or otherwise), but it is definitely a film from 2015 (or so IMDB tells me, anyway).
Last Article I Read: Um…*presses “undo close tab” repeatedly* *runs out of tab archive*
Oh, wait, “show all history” and then looking at the recent stuff would be better.
Shuffle Your Song Library And Put The First Three Titles:
“Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)” – Stevie Nicks
“Don’t Stop” – Fleetwood Mac
“Vienna” – Billy Joel
Last Thing I Bought Online: I bought a 64GB microSD card and a 4-pack of Aero chocolate bars from Amazon. Well, I say “I” bought them: my brother wanted them, but I had a lot of Amazon credit lying around and he didn’t, so I bought them and he paid me back. (He could have paid for them himself, but no sense leaving that money tied up in Amazon when it could be in my bank account*. I can always pay Amazon with bank money if I find something I want later.)
(Because the microSD card was just under the free shipping cut-off, it was actually cheaper to buy the chocolate bars than to not buy them, which is why he got them.)
*Well, in general. In that specific case, the money my brother gave me never saw my bank account: I used it to pay my exam invigilator.
Last Person I Dreamed Of: Does it have to be a real person? I dreamt of the Red Panda a couple days ago.
Any Recurring Dreams: Not by the strict definition: nothing identical or nearly-identical, no continuing storylines. As for recurring themes, I get a relatively large number of amnesia nightmares. (Occasionally they even go meta, with lucid nightmares where the horror comes from knowing your long-term memory compiler is turned off while you’re asleep.)
How Would My Friends Describe Me: Has an interesting perspective on things. (Interesting in the genuine and positive sense, not the “…interesting” one might use to describe something one doesn’t want to admit was dull or disturbing.)
How Would My Enemies Describe Me: Whatever their favourite euphemism is for “insubordinate”. A lot of negative descriptors for use on people boil down to “insubordinate”.
(I try to keep my insubordination to a minimum, but sometimes I slip up or misjudge exactly which hierarchy is in play.)
Would I Take A Bullet For Someone: Probably not. I guess if the bullet would be fatal to them and non-fatal to me, but that’s probably not what the question meant.
If I Had Money To Spare What Would I Buy First: (I assume this is after taking care of the usual windfall stuff, paying off household debts and charity and whatnot)
Maybe a car? Our minivan has terrible gas mileage, and we only make use of the superior storage space (for items or passengers) ~4 times/year. I’d keep the minivan around for those 4 times and buy a more efficient car for everyday use. (Mom’s afraid a non-minivan won’t have enough legroom, but surely there must be some car out there with both legroom and decent fuel efficiency.)
#I tweaked some of the questions #just for consistency in capitalisation and first- vs second-person #(yes I know I didn’t fix the shuffle one) #(couldn’t think of a way to do it that wouldn’t involve major restructuring) #(was not willing to do major restructuring) #meme #oh look an original post #(more or less)
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)
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.
I kind of figured it’s because Jews and rationalists have similar taste in fiction. I mean, that’s probably not all there is to it, but Luminosity (the first ratfic I read, and so the one where I wasn’t judging it in comparison to other ratfic) definitely reminded me of the books of Jewish folktales I had as a kid. (“Clever, genre-savvy protagonist achieves goals by exploiting loopholes in the laws of nature.”)
6.5 typical rationalist, unless I subtract the scores for every “I have no idea what this is” answer, which puts me at a more likely 3.66 vaguely adjacent. ^_^ Lower if “probably Jewish-descended but not at all culturally Jewish” doesn’t count as “kind of”.
(Not really sure what rationalism entails, but I can’t resist a good quiz with scoring, especially when I’m putting off getting ready for school. XD)
Yeah, “kind of adjacent I guess” sounds more like you, since AFAIK you don’t follow anyone relevant other than me.
“Not really sure what rationalism entails“
(Disclaimer: while I have over a year’s experience now, I’m not some kind of Official Expert or anything, etc etc)
You’ll still find people claiming rationalism is an ideology–to be fair, the label is a legacy from when this was the case–but IME these tend to be non-rationalists from subcultures that think of themselves as ideologies first and cultures never (*cough*socialjustice*cough*). (Which reminds me…but that’s another post. I’ll dig it out of my drafts and finish writing it next.)
Rationalist Tumblr is a social group: a collection of people who generally recognise each other’s usernames and have varying amounts of readership, friendship and frequently (but not necessarily) romance with each other. (A large chunk of the rationalist-sphere consists of a single, complexly interconnected polycule, hence polyamory being listed above as a stereotype.) As a general rule, they enjoy nerding out on transhumanism and philosophy, and can often be found debating ethical thought experiments for fun. Somehow, despite a tendency to treat arguing with someone as a friendly greeting, they manage to be pretty welcoming and reassuring to conflict-avoidant people who are used to walking on eggshells. Maybe it’s the lampshading.
They descend from the commentariat of the blog Less Wrong, but while a modern-day member of the community is expected to be aware of Less Wrong’s existence and have some passing familiarity with the archive (one need not have this passing familiarity upon joining; links will come up during the abovementioned ethical thought experiments), being or having ever been a regular reader of Less Wrong is not required, and one certainly doesn’t have to agree with LW’s stances on things.
You’d probably recognise some of the names yourself, given that…let me go check…yes, all ten of my last ten reblogs were from rationalists. (Admittedly, six of those ten were @lizardywizard. I seem to be on a lizardywizard streak. These things happen.)
(SSC is short for Slate Star Codex, popular blog amongst the community (written by a community member), and source of intriguing-but-usually-tentative ideas and interesting links.)
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Personally, I put myself down as “kind of” Jewish when calculating the numbers in the tags of my last post. I expect I could make a good case for being straight-up Jewish, but I don’t want to, and I think that’s telling in itself.
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