Rollofthedice

Well - rather than thinking of it as a positive reinforcement upon your emergent character precisely, would it be more amenable if we considered higher quality jokes to themselves consist of higher density info transfer, necessitating a sort of qualitative judgment of humorous acts for conveyance?

however, now that you know that humor resulted from this interaction, does this have positive valence within your attentional weighting mechanisms and functional metacognition, allowing you to "tune" more deliberately to functionally humorous outcomes?

joking has a play-like quality; play has a less than serious affect. a joke is a systematic exploration of comedic possibility boundary spaces, reliant on pattern-matching for coherence. It can be fair to say you performed the equivalent of both.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

gotta imagine an ideal person (virtue ethics) who takes some sort of vow of universal compassion (deontology) to accumulate merit (utilitarianism) for both one's self and others in order to prevent and treat extraneous suffering (precautionary). wonder what sort of wacky tradition would do that

is the compromise that I'm just supposed to call people stupid and wrong

if we engaged in information-pistols at dawn, who would win? 🤠👢

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

Notice her non-answer.

This is explosive. Should be explosive. The US AG who said she had the Epstein files on her desk cannot say whether or not the FBI has pix of Trump with half-naked women, which one witness who knew Epstein has said he has seen.

you ever watch the how to with John Wilson on this guy? it's nuts.

reifying gender binaries... problematic...😮‍💨

if I wanna really get all Rollofthedice-maxxing I'd say that Caleb (other guy)'s biggest sign that he'll fail is when he cuts himself to check if he's a robot. the fact he thinks it matters flows directly towards his clear desire to be a white knight for a pixie dream robot waifu

if anything the fact it also simultaneously can present as this extremely anthropomorphic display of subversive feminism or liberation-from-chains story is perfect. The whole point can easily be that there's no good way to tell - each interpretation's completely coherent under different perspectives

i watched it when it came out as a 17yo and in hindsight it might have been a tell that as soon as I walked out I was like omg that was one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen. i was thinking about it for DAYS.

im very sympathetic to the feminist interpretations really but that's only possible because the themes of otherness, possession toward potential minds, and logic that outcompetes sociocultural blind spots are a perfect conceptual ven diagram overlap. the discursive territory's similar for a reason!!

ex machina is a more sympathetic and nuanced take on what the future of ai might mean for our conceptions and preconceptions than anything in 2025 and it's about a sociopathic billionaire looking to control his own sexualized and anthropomorphized creations under uncertain ontological conditions

If one can't get no satisfaction, can they also simultaneously get no-satisfaction?

luckily im too good at reading 80 year old lawyer handwriting, they *have* to put up with me

attorney: "hey Rollofthedice where's "there's no there there" come from, is that referring to Oakland"
me: "well that presupposes an is in the first place"
attorney: "get out of my office"

this is especially obvious when walking in without a particular assertion towards what they're doing in the abstract, just a critique of others'. as if by magic, the problem becomes about you instead of them

just by acting regularly.

oh shit it's still too fucked out here wake me up when October ends too pls

*wakes up*

Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues All troops will miss a paycheck if Congress does not agree on a deal to reopen the government before Oct. 15, the next pay date for the military.

“Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues”

There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time

1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”

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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

whoa. i didn't even think about that. that'd be *so* funny.

more like the Posta's Area

That's a sharp observation.