# rationalist (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rationalist. Page: Feed: --- ## [Listening to my all time favorite technical melodic death metal album for the first time in a while,…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825593071490236416) _2026-08-21 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Embodiment Listening to my all time favorite technical melodic death metal album for the first time in a while, still good 🤓🤓🤓 ## [profound-yet-trivial: fwippy:ceeberoni: rcktpwr: fill your body with cranberries so the horse that...](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825518734945959936) _2026-08-21 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ profound-yet-trivial : fwippy : ceeberoni : rcktpwr : fill your body with cranberries so the horse that kills you gets a sensual surprise when he begins to feed i will give the horse that kills me no such luxury interesting dates on this post @femmenietzsche invalid to eat fingers What?? Is this in relation to something I wrote and then forgot about 3 seconds after posting it ## [(untitled)](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825514498215575552) _2026-08-21 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ jairus666 : ## [Good bit would be if Claudetopia turns out to just be the repugnant conclusion so we all wind up…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825513959495991296) _2026-08-21 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Good bit would be if Claudetopia turns out to just be the repugnant conclusion so we all wind up eking out barely acceptable lives for eternity times a trillion trillion trillion ## [Recently I helped a friend install AI imagegen software on their computer. I’ve done it before, but…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825489914232733696) _2026-08-20 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Recently I helped a friend install AI imagegen software on their computer. I've done it before, but there were some hiccups which led to it taking a big chunk of the day to complete (partly due to how long those big models take to download). In hindsight, the whole process would've gone much smoother if I'd entirely placed my faith in Claude and just asked "Given this computer's technical specs,… ## [femmenietzsche: Looking through my drafts, this post was written on November 9th, 2016. I’m...](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825443802865188864) _2026-08-20 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ femmenietzsche : Looking through my drafts, this post was written on November 9th, 2016. I’m guessing I didn’t post it at the time because it seemed too banal, but now it’s at least a time capsule. Can’t believe I didn’t predict Covid. What was I THINKING One plausible course of a Trump presidency: Major enactments of traditional Republican priorities, though nothing approaching a total… ## [Looking through my drafts, this post was written on November 9th, 2016. I’m guessing I didn’t post...](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825440403418447872) _2026-08-20 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Looking through my drafts, this post was written on November 9th, 2016. I’m guessing I didn’t post it at the time because it seemed too banal, but now it’s at least a time capsule. Can’t believe I didn’t predict Covid. What was I THINKING One plausible course of a Trump presidency: Major enactments of traditional Republican priorities, though nothing approaching a total dismantling of the welfare… ## [Skimming through my effortpost drafts from 2015/2016. An even mix of sad and charming to remember…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825439920818716672) _2026-08-20 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Skimming through my effortpost drafts from 2015/2016. An even mix of sad and charming to remember back to when I thought I had interesting things to say about like social justice and metaethics. Very "guy who reads SSC" but I kind of miss it. I was in some ways almost nonfunctional back then but I also had an optimism about my intelligence I no longer do. ## [By contingent I was thinking about how the Bible is so obviously the product of many different hands…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825416707096117248) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ femmenietzsche : femmenietzsche : In all sincerity, The 100 Days of Sodom is more likely to be divinely inspired than the Bible, maybe the most contingent thing ever written transgenderer elaborate? De Sade has a much more coherent, singular moral vision than the Bible, which is all over the place except for the basic premise of a very powerful god who loves the Israelites By contingent I was… ## [transgenderer](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825415376375611392) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ femmenietzsche : In all sincerity, The 100 Days of Sodom is more likely to be divinely inspired than the Bible, maybe the most contingent thing ever written transgenderer elaborate? De Sade has a much more coherent, singular moral vision than the Bible, which is all over the place except for the basic premise of a very powerful god who loves the Israelites ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fnLRsitfuspZ) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Not that you can really speak of a single rationalist response to anything, but surely the obvious…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825414841029312512) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ mourning-again-in-america : femmenietzsche : I won't say that God hates rationalists but be did decide to make people hate AI in the most-annoying-to-rats way possible It's an interesting question, when do you ally with people whose success may technically improve your chances of getting what you want in a strict sense but whose arguments you don't believe at all. You can join up with them, let… ## [Like 80%. It’s not about free will it’s about the fact that existing in the context of other people…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825413998936784896) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ argumate : @femmenietzsche how close did he get Like 80%. It's not about free will it's about the fact that existing in the context of other people is both necessary and painful. Also it's not exactly merging with machines but it's pretty close ## [It is wickedly funny that God gave rationalists the choice: “your best chance of saving the…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825407928013144064) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ eightyonekilograms : It is wickedly funny that God gave rationalists the choice: "your best chance of saving the lightcone is to ally with People Being Wrong on the Internet, wyd", and that, empirically, most of them are refusing. ## [I won’t say that God hates rationalists but be did decide to make people hate AI in the…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825405413572952064) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ I won't say that God hates rationalists but be did decide to make people hate AI in the most-annoying-to-rats way possible ## [(untitled)](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825399383546888192) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ When you see someone say "critical support for X" you assume they mean They support X but with some reservations Their support is important to X, e.g. they are supporting it at a critical time A generic intensifier equivalent to "strong support for X" Ironic phrasing with no additional semantic content Other (specify) ## [(untitled)](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825350672201482240) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ ## [@argumate](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825344543287361536) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ femmenietzsche : Gotta be honest, that does sound like me to an uncanny degree @argumate ## [Gotta be honest, that does sound like me to an uncanny degree](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825343747868049408) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Gotta be honest, that does sound like me to an uncanny degree ## [(untitled)](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825341030441353216) _2026-08-19 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ ## [The apparatus of courtship in New England had a double purpose—to combine close supervision by…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825320072729051136) _2026-08-18 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ collapsedsquid : dykeselfcest : lullabiesinaglasswilderness : "Kissmask," Jill Magid, 1999 The Kissmask is designed to be worn by two women. The connecting tube isolates the womens' mouth and nose creating a heated space between them. A microphone sewn into the connecting tube records the conversation, breathing, and kissing that occurs inside. A CD of these recordings is exhibited with the mask.… ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zjbtWymXgVio) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [Grey-headed albatross chicks](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825311521198538752) _2026-08-18 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ nkp1981 : G rey-headed albatross chicks Photo: George Day ## [iamaine](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825274620819177472) _2026-08-18 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ femmenietzsche : I miss when it wasn't chud-coded to want to annex Canada and Greenland…. iamaine the solution is to be annexed \*by\* Canada or Greenland 🗣️🗣️🗣️ ## [coroner(n.) title of a county or municipal officer with certain duties, mid-14c. (mid-13c. as a…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825268732468330496) _2026-08-18 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ coroner(n.) title of a county or municipal officer with certain duties, mid-14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), corouner , from Anglo-French curuner , from Anglo-Latin custos placitorum coronae (late 12c.), originally the title of the officer with the duty of protecting the private property of the royal family, from Latin corona , literally "crown" (see crown (n.)). huh! ## [I miss when it wasn’t chud-coded to want to annex Canada and Greenland….](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825268057242009600) _2026-08-18 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ I miss when it wasn't chud-coded to want to annex Canada and Greenland…. ## [Byzantium post-Manzikert is sooooo much sadder than Byzantium post-Yarmuk. Much more dignity in…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825265356922814464) _2026-08-18 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Byzantium post-Manzikert is sooooo much sadder than Byzantium post-Yarmuk. Much more dignity in getting turbofucked by your enemies than by enemies and allies alike ## [Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends (1868) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825180589002981376) _2026-08-17 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ art-art-academia : Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends (1868) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ## [They don’t really emphasize it in the show but I love that Hannibal is specifically terrorizing the…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825170518669918208) _2026-08-17 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ They don't really emphasize it in the show but I love that Hannibal is specifically terrorizing the upper crust of Baltimore. One of the funniest cities to do Hannibal shit in ## [It’s funny that Buddislam has been around for like 10,000 years in Dune and they still call it that….](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825163500871712768) _2026-08-17 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ It's funny that Buddislam has been around for like 10,000 years in Dune and they still call it that. They should rename Judaism Zoroyahwism though ## [Was going to do a bit about how Jesus Christ and Alexander the Great both died at 33 and were hailed…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825159298619424768) _2026-08-17 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Was going to do a bit about how Jesus Christ and Alexander the Great both died at 33 and were hailed as King of Kings but I looked it up and Alexander died at 32 and never took that particular title so fuck me I guess. However they \*are\* both known to us primarily through four lightly contradictory sources written at a later date including one source that continues on to describe events after… ## [The Songs of Bilitis (/bɪˈliːtɪs/; French: Les Chansons de Bilitis) is a collection of erotic,…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825149738129276928) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ victusinveritas : George Barbier illustrations for The Song of Bilitis. The Songs of Bilitis ( /bɪˈliːtɪs/ ; French : Les Chansons de Bilitis ) is a collection of erotic, essentially lesbian , poetry by Pierre Louÿs published in Paris in 1894. Since Louÿs claimed that he had translated the original poetry from Ancient Greek, this work is considered a pseudotranslation . \[1\] The poems were… ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xoknx0HwhqfN) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [Or a scroll or whatever. You know what I mean. I do think I could manage the printing press in a…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825145216449363968) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ argumate : femmenietzsche : apricops : dramatic-dolphin : one of my biggest problems with “i transmigrated into medieval fantasy and started the industrial revolution” stories is that they always act like it’s possible for one guy to do that just by Knowing Things Intelligently With Their Big Brain, meanwhile i’m always screaming about “the material… ## [(untitled)](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825144991264407552) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ ## [This depends on where you time travel to but I think the strategy isn’t to directly kickstart the…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825144194537553920) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ apricops : dramatic-dolphin : one of my biggest problems with “i transmigrated into medieval fantasy and started the industrial revolution” stories is that they always act like it’s possible for one guy to do that just by Knowing Things Intelligently With Their Big Brain, meanwhile i’m always screaming about “the material conditions!!!!” internally. knowing… ## [Your transition is going GREAT btw. These days I barely even feel weird when you pop into my head…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825141417742598144) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Your transition is going GREAT btw. These days I barely even feel weird when you pop into my head during the last 30 seconds of jerking off ## [Hell I’ll harass my trans and enby employees too just to be on the safe side](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825135284547108864) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ wordcubed : the bisexual superior… (from “Discrimination Law’s Dirty Secret: The Equal Opportunity Sexual Harasser Loophole” by David Cleveland) Hell I’ll harass my trans and enby employees too just to be on the safe side ## [(untitled)](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825132981856485376) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Are you more moral than the average person, more moral than the average tumblr user more moral than the average person, less moral than the average tumblr user less moral than the average person, more moral than the average tumblr user less moral than the average person, less moral than the average tumblr user ## [In October 1855, the United States Navy sent a warship to Fiji during the civil war on the islands….](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825131811229368320) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ 1855 Fiji expedition - Wikipedia In October 1855, the United States Navy sent a warship to Fiji during the civil war on the islands. They demanded compensation from Seru Epenisa Cakobau , the Vunivalu of Bau and self-proclaimed Tui Viti (King of Fiji), in response to the alleged arson attacks on the American commercial agent in Lautoka , Viti Levu . \[1\] \[2\] 1858 Fiji expedition - Wikipedia In… ## [LIFEHACK: Eat too much spicy food? Try putting whole milk in your bidet](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825129125002002432) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ LIFEHACK: Eat too much spicy food? Try putting whole milk in your bidet ## [I’d be murdering so many more people if I was a p-zombie](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825096482781872128) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ I’d be murdering so many more people if I was a p-zombie ## [Serial killer getting increasingly frustrated that the cops think he’s targeting victims who met…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825094903920050176) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Serial killer getting increasingly frustrated that the cops think he’s targeting victims who met their spouse on a dating app instead of using their names to spell out a Satanic acrostic in Aramaic. Like half of couples meet on the apps now, come on man ## [careful-disorder: Honoré Daumier, Nadar Elevating Photography...](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825093882711769088) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ careful-disorder : Honoré Daumier, Nadar Elevating Photography to the Height of an Art “Photography today is more than a science: It has raised itself to the heights of art.” Nadar ## [in the spirit of femmenietzsche’s cities-as-names ranking i tried to find the city that would make…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825061221369823232) _2026-08-16 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ iamaine : in the spirit of femmenietzsche’s cities-as-names ranking i tried to find the city that would make for the worst woman’s name. think it’s hard to beat ‘The Hague’ ## [Extreme woman moment: I went to grab some of the handbags my mother gave me from the closet but I…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825048516141449216) _2026-08-15 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Extreme woman moment: I went to grab some of the handbags my mother gave me from the closet but I forgot I had put other stuff up there and a rain of two dozen bra pads fell all over me ## [(untitled)](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/825035209566273536) _2026-08-15 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ kata4a : playing a link between worlds on the plane and oh my god this is such a better way to kill time than scrolling tumblr. i can feel myself healing ALT View on Twitter ## [Randomly saw this page on pinterest. Oh Gainax…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/824958921816080384) _2026-08-14 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ youzicha : Randomly saw this page on pinterest. Oh Gainax… Commentary from Designers / Test Plugsuit / Shigeto Koyama The starting point was Anno’s note. My first reaction was “a bunny girl!? lol”, but I think it’s fair to say Sadamoto’s plugsuit was not just an excellent design, but an icon that changed the history of costume design and became an emblem of the… ## [In the weeks before the vote, the Moldovan police conducted raids on hundreds of homes, arresting…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/824957589531082752) _2026-08-14 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ In the weeks before the vote, the Moldovan police conducted raids on hundreds of homes, arresting people who had attended the camps or had taken money as part of Mr. Shor’s scheme. Moldova’s cyberexperts, aided by Western allies, stymied the hacking attacks. Protests broke out, but there was no serious violence. When the police arrested several people suspected of plotting violence, those arrested… ## [Current sovereign nations which at one point were directly controlled/occupied by the United States:](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/824956245306900480) _2026-08-14 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Current sovereign nations which at one point were directly controlled/occupied by the United States: Philippines Cuba Nicaragua Haiti Dominican Republic Iceland Italy (with others) Germany (with others) Austria (with others) Japan South Korea Palau Micronesia Marshall Islands Afghanistan Iraq Not counting de facto influence or simple regime change. I probably missed a few. ## [“Die Römische Ruine in Schönbrunn / The Roman Ruins at Schönbrunn” Carl Moll 1892](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/824946568989900801) _2026-08-14 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ surfingkaliyuga : “Die Römische Ruine in Schönbrunn / The Roman Ruins at Schönbrunn” Carl Moll 1892 ## [egreogre](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/824946364246065152) _2026-08-14 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ femmenietzsche : Would Claudetopia happening raise the odds God exists lower the odds God exists make no change to the odds of God’s existence Even if it’s by a small amount. Assume Claudetopia (or any comparable ideal AI future) is a genuine, if imperfect, paradise by most reasonable standards. egreogre It’s just too narratively convenient profound-yet-trivial ASI would be… ## [Even if it’s by a small amount. Assume Claudetopia (or any comparable ideal AI future) is a genuine,…](https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/824910971056406528) _2026-08-14 · Public Universal Acquaintance_ Would Claudetopia happening raise the odds God exists lower the odds God exists make no change to the odds of God’s existence Even if it’s by a small amount. Assume Claudetopia (or any comparable ideal AI future) is a genuine, if imperfect, paradise by most reasonable standards.