Foundational values are a political technology that lossily compresses ideology into something more memetic.

Listen, we already know you're a racist, you don't have to work so hard to make us hate you!

"when you control for applicant qualifications discounted for affirmative action, there is no net racial discrimination in the ___ sector"

I'm not sure I understand this right (which I imagine is the purpose of his phrasing), but is this basically saying "if you assume black people are less competent, there is no racial discrimination"?

i know i'm not the target audience but my god the drudgery of organising ethicalseeming orgies, and consensual rape parties in particular, makes me feel many feelings. something sisyphean but the boulder is made out of gender roles and power dynamics and the slope is made of ... libido? the rationalists might well be the people i trust the least in the world to deal with it.

imo one should treat others as ends in themselves, and not merely as means to an end

that is to say, ugh! rationalists talk about your relation to other people without making it about consumption challenge

Our concern is not with the defensive intent. It's that the form of this particular probe is aggressive in effect, and the party that bears the cost is not the agent (which has no interests of its own) but the human operator downstream whose work the agent destroys if it follows the instruction.

... you think? aw shucks i only wanted to hurt bots

Big syringe

I don't even know what to say here. Cool scam I guess

https://xcancel.com/herasight/status/2057888072092856823

Huh, I got déjà vu and yeah there's this story from a couple months back! https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-replacement-john-schloendorn-aging-longevity/

MIT Technology Review found no evidence that R3 has cloned anyone, or even any animal bigger than a rodent. What we did find were documents, additional meeting agendas, and other sources outlining a technical road map for what R3 called “body replacement cloning” in a 2023 letter to supporters. That road map involved improvements to the cloning process and genetic wiring diagrams for how to create animals without complete brains.

Please don't let this be the next bubble.

Congratulations bb you’re a bog standard misogynist

"Cerisi" and gender confusion make me think this might be for some reason a machine translation of a generated summary, so like, two layers of slop?

You know, “most of said outfits” was too harsh. I’m gonna rate the outfits now, I love rating outfits!!!

2, 3 and 10 look like men you should run away from.

6 looks like he’s cosplaying as 60s italian movie riviera pinterest europe cinecitta, which I instinctively distrust. And I don’t care what anyone says, I will simply not abide the sockless loafer.

4, whatever. I do not want to talk him. We clearly have nothing in common.

8 is awesome. Looks like an actual cool guy, lovely outfit, love the pose. He’s what 6 wants to be.

7 is pretty cool too. Have to dock points for the very modelly pose, sadly, but still, pretty sick fit.

5 I don’t really like but he’s a more confidently realised version of 6 so good for him. Not tryhard or heterosexual-looking enough for me to hate. Keep it up.

9 I am sure I would absolutely love if I saw it on someone who didn’t look like they were fresh out the male model factory. Bonus points for uncreased trousers.

And finally 1 is obviously awesome but like. You cannot use this as an outfit recommendation. That’s just irresponsible. First the guy is buff as fuck and that is a necessary part of the outfit. It’s all about that mad silhouette. Second, I mean. This is pretty eccentric right. If you saw everyone dressing like this it would just be dumb. You cannot expect those poor lesswrongs to understand this.

TO BE CLEAR I am not advocating for nerd fashion I’m just working class

“It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”

To be fair most of said outfits read as “rich arsehole” to me, which I do not find attractive. Yellow shirt guy I would suspect to be a white supremacist.

As far as men’s fashion goes, I’ve seen much worse, though the bits I do like here feel fairly gay-coded to me so uh whatever. (I suspect those are the very same bits our Lesswrong Commenter is disapproving of.)