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recombobulation therapy

Short Film Concept: Actor portraying the native american shadow government hypnotist who erased Randy Cutrara's childhood bigfoot memories (dressed in black) doing a sick monologue about how the sweetness of the mystery morally justifies forever denying us the relief of disclosure, then vanishing.

UFO guy who's trying to inflame US-China conflict over Taiwan because they want to find out whether either side has reproduction vehicles.

Word in the local psych department is that LLMs mimic human reasoning failure modes almost perfectly and, uh, wow.

AI safety activist who reluctantly switches sides to china after learning that the taishin nuclear power plant incident was slightly less severe than the three mile island incident.

Any time you learn something without an explicit/principled understanding of what it was that you learned, some of it will be trauma/bad perceptual habits that you're going to have to clean up later. Heuristical/approximal learning and trauma are inseperable.

Apparently there *are* progressive dog breeders functionalbreeding.org Most dog owners should want to be part of this?

Just now learning that "zounds" was a euphemism for the grave remark, "god's wounds". I'm not sure "zounds" can be restored. We'll have to use the older, unminced phrasing. We do need it. You must be ready to notice when the father bleeds and falters, for that is where our responsibilities begin.

Would aliens also know The Breakbeat?

When the speedrunner www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11P... indulges in popping a balloon, even though they've transcended the need for additional lives that dominates the umwelts of casual players, we are relieved, we celebrate, as it is a sign that some part of the speedrunner's humanity has survived.