Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • I do think it’s a bad idea, even as someone who saves sex for committed relationships.

    • A lifelong commitment to a potentially disappointing physical relationship doesn’t seem like a great plan.
    • Before sex, there’s a lot of incentive to present your best self. Afterwards people are a more comfortable presenting more of who they are.
    • You learn a lot about someone’s priorities, self-control, receprocity, hang ups, etc.

    But if it works for you, don’t let others talk you out of it.



















  • A lot of what ai is good at is very useful for automating massive state surveillance programs. AI could monitor live audio and video communication for problem phrases, for example.

    Making authoritarian rule easier and cheaper is a very valuable capability to elites, though detrimantal to the world.

    I think the main effect of ai will be continuing this deadly trend of power consolidation that we’ve seen since maybe the mesolithic. The power of information will be conslidated in fewer and fewer ai-oligarchs, allowing ever more intrusive states to control more people more precisely.