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Rationalism Gothic
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Author: u/traverseda With dread but cautious optimism*
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URL: http://luminousalicorn.tumblr.com/post/115832211805/rationalism-gothic
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Score: 16
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Created: 2016-01-04T08:46:59
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u/traverseda [+5] With dread but cautious optimism (31 seconds later)
"You know you're a redneck if..." Combined with rationalist memes and horror.
u/Transfuturist [+11] Carthago delenda est. (13 hours later)
You abandon a sunk cost. You didn’t want to. It’s crying.
...Oh.
u/ArgentStonecutter [+4] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (2 hours later)
It is the singularity. You have one brain, one eye, one finger, one testicle, one foot, one toe, one ovary, one, one, one, one, one....
u/PeridexisErrant [+1] put aside fear for courage, and death for life (2 days later)
The only numbers that need no justification are 0, 1, and infinity. Zero and infinity were judged to be impractical.
u/Transfuturist [+5] Carthago delenda est. (13 hours later)
You’re struggling with akrasia. You have insight into your condition. You pity people who don’t even know to call it “akrasia”. You have not done anything in months.
Too spoop.
u/None [+3] (10 hours later)
You shift your view of artificial intelligence and met the eyes of a Basilisk.
u/Sailor_Vulcan [+2] Champion of Justice and Reason (a day later)
As mortifying as it is, this kind of describes my reaction when I was first introduced to rationality via HPMOR. Seriously, happy death spirals SUCK.