I doubt it was 10 years. Still, Lanny must have something profoundly wrong with him, some sort of severe mental illness that he's in denial about, or a (suppressed) dark or deeply shameful secret, to have continue it as long as he did. The visceral reaction that's consistently elicited in him when I bring this up only increases the likelihood.
If you keep choosing between being shot in the foot or hand you're eventually going to bleed out.
I'm thinking of showing up outside a major polling place in SF, in some sort of costume (not the klan one), with a sign like this. Not sure whether I prefer that for the front or: You're all fucked either way and most of you probably deserve it, accept it and move on.
For chrissakes Actor, Hillary is an awful awful person. Just write in something clever and lie to her. Hell, write me in if you want.
I doubt anyone has the same autistic style memory I do, but I've mentioned this before, along with recommending selegiline/deprenyl as an alternative, as it's been shown to greatly reduce the creation of neurotoxic metabolites by inhibition of MAO-B. You can buy it here, it's very cheap (have to email them to get approved) and they're a reputable site: http://brandmedicines.com/index.php?...oducts_id=1464
Anyone who uses stimulants should supplement with magnesium glycinate, it prevents lockjaw which seems to be largely caused by the magnesium depletion stims induce. Powder city is by far the cheapest source, high quality (tested) and reputable.
OH SHIT NIGGA, OH SHIT, SHOTS FIRED, SHOTS FIRED LIKE THE OG SUPREME BITCH NIGGER COMMANDER EMMY AWARD WINNING GANG RAPPER LAN ROGERS STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON BE ROLLING THROUGH MY HOOD!!!
I took some MDMA earlier, four hours after eating, and that shit took like two and a half hours to kick in.*Just regular crystals in a gel cap…weird shit. Gave a friend the same dose from the same batch in the same brand of capsule a few weeks ago and he was good to go in less than an hour.
You should plug it, it's way better. Faster onset, higher bioavailability, and for some drugs it can considerably reduce the amount of harmful metabolites produced. Back when I was first using parnate I was plugging multiple times a day, along with injecting peptides like semax and selank subcutaneously before switching to intranasal, and IM'ing testosterone before switching to subcutaneous.
I am psychologically and neurologically abnormal. Way at the end of multiple distribution curves.
The reason it had the effect on me was because of how profoundly disingenuous it felt, the ritual of human social behavior. Let me be clear, the advice has a very sound logical basis if you think through the basis for it and the implications, understand human behavior and the physiological roots, your evolutionary psychology, and it will be excellent for what it advertises, success in human relationships (not simply ones of a romantic nature).
You are incredibly foul creatures. The most vile I've ever had the displeasure of knowing. Your only redeeming factor is what you create and that you may be capable of becoming the biological bootloader for AGI.
I thought of that, but it brought to mine some substances that are structurally related or produce metabolites that are. Oh, fuck it, this is bling bling.
This thread is about you. I genuinely desire the death of everyone who reproduces. if you met me in real life you'd likely have me as having the angriest demeanor, being in a state of wrath for a longer period, than anyone you've ever met. Part of the reason why I distance myself from people to such an extent. Only stating this to give you a portrait or the person behind the text, see the feasibility of the veracity of my word.
I agree, but in this case it involves the creation of another life, which cannot consent, to fulfill that need; condemning them to life and, at present (given our current state of knowledge and technology, the future being unknown), death. Don't you agree that there's something profoundly immoral about this and that, unless we devolve into total deconstruction and following to extreme and logical conclusions (which I'm not completely against), the involvement of life radically alters it, invokes separate categorical arguments/lines of reasoning? You clearly ascribe more value to "living" beings that the atoms that compose them.
No it does not, there's such a massive amount of material to consume that even if new production were to cease at this moment you would never experience more than a tiny sliver of it. Regardless, there's the issue of hedonic elitism, but in practical terms, there are sound reasons to value them more than the crudest animalistic drives (Why do the themes in arts entertain us so? I know, I know.) As for justifying some children, there's once again the issue of genetic russian roulette, probability. You don't know what will occur for certain. Of course, that applies to essentially everything, every decision, we make in our lives to some extent. And, once again, it involves the lives of others which are cast into the cosmic brutality for our own selfish desires.
Completely ungrounded and untethered. "Like talking to a robot" you once said. The mentality I've developed is incredibly alienated and continually closer to a machine than being of flesh. A large part of the reason why I've progressively posted less over the years.
Wut? Are you talking about some artificial sweetener or other food additive? If so, they seem pretty benign. The overwhelming majority of arguments against them are incredibly poorly constructed, based on garbage science and misinterpretations.
OK. Considering the above, when you say life has no intrinsic worth you're not stating this as a matter of fact but rather as a matter of your opinion, an opinion which you believe cannot be determined to be true or false until you assimilate with a super human intelligence, so you are willing to wait to end your life until you know the truth.
Doesn't it follow that, at least until that time comes, your life has some worth? Your life has the potential to learn the truth, is that not worthwhile? At least you seem to admit it is worthwhile enough to continue living, for the time.
On another note, isn't "worth" or "value" inherently subjective and relative? If it is how can the value of life be objectively determined? If it cannot be, and you hate your life now, isn't waiting to assimilate with a super intelligence just prolonging your suffering waiting to verify something you already know, that it's all a matter of perspective and it truly does not matter if life exists or not? If you truly hate your worthless life is that alone not reason enough to end it or change it and make it worth living?
The prior statement wasn't serious, just following the hashtag chain.
I would say it's more that the worth/value of my "life" is indeterminate. If there's any value, it's to attain the information on whether it had value.
Having children and making them happy fulfills a need that had no need to exist. It's absurdly egotistical and selfish, you created the fucking need! You created someone to make you feel needed, to nurture, to devote your time to, pour countless resources into, instead of devoting it to others that already exist or higher, intellectual, matters that are of actual importance and will advance us the final goal!!!
You cannot do good by having a biological child, it is an ethical impossibility.
And for the overwhelming majority of people it does not lead to a net increase in happiness, not by a longshot! Selfish genes, what your body desires isn't what's necessarily optimal for you as an individual. It's revolting how poor a grasp of evolution the vast majority have, it being so rare to see people espouse an advance, developed and nuanced, view. As long as the genes are spread sufficiently the behavior they invoke need not raise your individual utility, your instincts can be destructively, deadly, wrong.
For example, when you picture yourself with a daughter I'm sure you imagine a perfect, very cute, little girl with just the right personality. When you think of children you've met, if you desire them, your might goes to the most positive and notable examples due to cognitive biases. You don't see it as genetic russian roulette, the countless moments that are unpleasant, completely unremarkable, the enormous costs.
It's always been human stupidity that I've hated the most. Just starting my day off by reading Reddit, which I use as a news/data/information aggregator, enrages me. I think it may be making me far more ornery than I otherwise would be. Maybe I should switch to just scanning it for important headlines and save the rest until later in the day, maybe while on a higher than usual dose of ethanol.
Do you remember my posts about AI? I want certainty, even at the risk of annihilation. If I assimilate and it's decided that there is no reason to continue living, or that consciousness is unnecessary (I read an interesting post on Slate Star Codex that mentioned this possibility), then that will be the decision. I want truth. Regardless of what I would have hoped for, if it doesn't exist it doesn't exist. If you think about the concept of AGI and the singularity, a being that can alter/improve itself, going beyond the limits of the ability of biological humans to predict or even comprehend, being able to attain the highest state of intelligence, knowledge, and the ability to gather data/knowledge/information, it's truly a glorious thing, ​transcendence.
So, essentially, I have a seething and complete hatred of this current state of life and hope to attain ultimate power and immortality (Not as cartoon(ish)-supervillain(is) as it may sound), even planning to have myself cryogenically preserved, which, IIRC, only a mere 1,500 people in the entire planet have even made arrangements for. Nothing else matters if this life ends in this limited grotesque form with the finality of death.
If "suicide" is determined to be the answer, then I will commit suicide, but at least I will have known the truth without doubt.
Lanny doesn't drive and hates long transits. The convenience of being within walking distance of where he needs to go, other than taking a short bus or rail ride to work, is worth the heavy price premium, which he can well afford, having graduated from a respectable university with a degree in computer science, and with high marks to boot, and now working in the financial district for a firm in that sector. Even while attending university he was willing to pay the premium to be close to campus.
There have actually been multiple studies documenting the cumulative detrimental impact of commuting. I myself hold such a seething hatred of driving and dealing with other people that I refuse to purchase a vehicle until self-driving cars have become well established. Time is valuable, it's absolute madness to waste it in exchange for income. Of course, many people are idiot natalists that move to the suburbs because it's "a better environment to raise children in", school districts and cheaper housing, which they damn well need due to parasitic nature of children, the strongest there is on Earth. Did you know the average professional only spends an average of about an hour a day interacting with their children and that parents actually rate the act as one of their favorite/enjoyable activities? Fucking idiots, get what they deserve. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
GrrrAAAAGH, Lanny, I swear, if you're ever corrupted by a woman's wiles or lose track of reason and give in to the call of your diseased ancestry, the selfish genes that corrupt human monkeys, I HOPE YOU DIE!!!!!
