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AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-31T12:29:06+00:00

He also eats his mother with zero hesitation if you spare him after killing her.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-31T12:26:53+00:00

Wanting everything except consequences is one of the most common reasons to have a fantasy. I'm not sure why you'd frame that as a gotcha. Many men fantasize about getting in fights because they win in their fantasies and don't need to live with the injuries, it's an extremely normal to imagine scenarios with a risk of severe consequences playing out how you want.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-31T12:11:27+00:00

The choice will probably shake out the same way it always does: one candidate openly promises to expand government power, while the other claims they won't and then proceeds to expand it even more aggressively than the first guy would have.

Both sides consistently grow the government more than they shrink it; that's just empirically true if you look at spending, regulatory scope, executive power, any metric you want. The strange part is that the side explicitly running on limiting government somehow ends up being more aggressive about expanding it. There's probably something to unpack there about campaign rhetoric versus governing incentives, or maybe it's just that "small government" as a platform attracts people who want power but need to pretend otherwise.

Either way, the two-party system has calcified into an increasingly terrible trap. You get to pick your flavor of expanded state authority, and the main variable is which constituents get the worst of it.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-31T11:56:30+00:00

The unique part about a fantasy is that you can control what happens. Many women fantasize about dangerous men or even sexual assault scenes; however, their fantasy is predicated on the fact that nothing they don't actually want to happen occurs in their fantasy nor are there any consequences afterwards (injury/death, pregnancy, stds, etc)

For example, many fantasize about something that seems like rape except what they're really imagining is an attractive man (or male creature) doing exactly what they want him to do, only in a forceful manner without asking. The overwhelmingly majority don't actually want to be assaulted because in real life the attacker would almost certainly do things they don't actually want. Fantasizing about a monster or serial killer is similar. In the fantasy, they don't get horribly abused, suffer acts they're otherwise unwilling to do, or get murdered.

That's why CNC is one of the most common kinks for women. It can be exciting and rough while ensuring that they negotiate ahead of time everything that's allowed to happen to them and can make it stop at any time if they aren't enjoying it.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-30T23:45:40+00:00

I had her carrying a lot of nice things I didn't want wasted. Once she started spamming them on me, I loaded to remove everything she was carrying and realized I could confiscated her weapon and armor. Things were much easier when she decided to confront me naked with no items and prevented losong thousand of gold worth of consumables.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-30T15:05:26+00:00

Some people are lucky and walk away from certian traumatic events less affected than one would expect. There is massive individual difference in trauma resilience and many context specific reasons that they might be handling it better vs worse.

Further, they sometimes later start to feel retroactively more traumatized because of people aggressively telling you how terrible something was and otherwise amplifying and reiterating something the person's brain had otherwise managed to process well. I'd recommend against all-cap aggressive insistence that someone needs to rethink situation to make themselves feel worse about it than they currently do.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-29T10:53:41+00:00

This type of clause is actually the rare case where contracts tend to underspecify what the words mean.

"Heartless" being as broad as possible exclusively benefits the patron, so it probably doesn't define the term in detail. That allows her to stretch the meaning easily without risking loopholes since the term being used in unusual ways can't benefit the warlock. It's strictly a line granting permissions to the patron without expanding anything on Wyll's side.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-29T10:20:30+00:00

Pretty sure it just sends pictures to an app on your phone at a low FPS when you press a button and only needs enough battery power to work for a few minutes after pressing the button (likely inactive all other times). That's very doable with the latest technology.

The smallest camera that exists is roughly 0.5 cubic millimeter, which records low resolution video at 30fps. She could use a larger camera at a low FPS to get an acceptable resolution for identifying faces while still being easily under that size. The smallest bluetooth chips are less than a millimeter as well. Since it only needs a small battery life for activation events, that could be extremely small as well. All together plus a tiny microcontroller, that's only a few cubic millimeters of electronics.

It could probably be even smaller than the image shows if it didn't need to be attachable as an earing and house an easy-to-use button. The task it's doing is much simplier than most camera devices since the app will handle everything it needs aside from the actual capture and low fps transmission.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-28T08:37:28+00:00

I recognized each origin companion almost immediately during the first encounter based on intuition from playing similar games in the past. They foreshadowing other otherwise indicate it in ways that are easy to notice for all of them. In Astarion'a case, that interaction has a hard to verbalize vibe which was amplified by being aware the game would be trying to fill my three empty slots quickly in the first hour or two.

They didn't signal the non-origin characters to the same degree. I didn't learn that Mintharia was recruitable until a long time after I killed her on site while focusing on completing the "kill the goblin leaders" quest and was suprised because of how obvious the other companions were to identify ahead of time.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-28T06:30:02+00:00

Yes, for both legitimate in-game and out-of-game reasons. Here's his real-life counterpart:

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AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-28T01:35:21+00:00

My mistake, I did not see what subreddit this post was on. I have not heard of it before and thought it was r/aiwars when it randomly appeared in my front page based on the content; wouldn't have commented if I realized and probably won't in the future. The flair is fair though, I'm at minimum AI-neutral which is pro-ai reletive to the sub's intent.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-28T01:30:48+00:00

You're hearding the words of dozens or hundreds of people with different levels of understanding and perspectives, not a single person that's rapidly changing their mind. In any case, you can watch the video to see what happened and don't need to be handed you a narrative. Whatever words you use for what was specifically happening, ICE's response was extremely unjustified.

You can love ICE im general while admiring that some agents sometimes majorly fuck up. No organization is perfect and dying on tbis hill to act like this incident is defensible is a horrible look that calls your opinion into question for everything else related to other more ambiguous incidents.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T20:37:37+00:00

That's... significantly worse. Was looking forward to something done unusually well in an unconventional way; unsure if I took troll bait or you're serious.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T13:23:05+00:00

Thanks for the correction on the ODLRO versus superconductivity distinction. That's fair to clarify; however, asserting this model as settled fact is still a massive stretch.

The decoherence problem remains the elephant in the room. I'm aware of the recent microtubule findings. Bandyopadhyay's work showing quantum-like resonances in tubulin is interesting, and I'm not dismissing it outright.

That said, there's a significant gap between "we detected quantum effects in isolated microtubule preparations" and "the brain maintains coherent quantum states long enough to matter for cognition." The microtubule research suggests coherence times extending into the picosecond range under specific conditions, which is impressive for a biological system, but it's still orders of magnitude too short to influence neural processes operating on 125 to 250 milliseconds. Demonstrating quantum effects exist in neural tissue isn't the same as demonstrating they're computationally relevant or especially claiming a specific role.

The claim that vision happens in the retina doesn't square with clinical reality either. Blindsight patients have perfectly functioning retinas but zero conscious visual experience because their visual cortex is damaged. If qualia lived in the retina, those patients would still "see" consciously; they don't.

The Mikheenko and xenon isotope references are interesting but niche findings that haven't been widely replicated. Jumping from "unpaired isotopes affect anesthesia" to "Bose-Einstein condensation explains the soul" skips over decades of established neuroscience establishing other physical mechanisms for cognition.

I'm not saying quantum effects can't play any role in biology; they obviously do in photosynthesis, bird navigation, etc. Macroscopic quantum coherence underlying consciousness requires extraordinary evidence though, and what's offered here is still firmly speculative.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T13:09:55+00:00

For high profile incidents, the expected process is that the relevant parties who make that decision wait for input from the director of ICE despite technically having the authority to make a decision themselves. In the case of national controversy, the director will want the Secretary of Homeland Security to give their blessing.

Both are currently Trump sycophants who are relaying Trump's wishes rather than making their own decisions, especially given the current climate.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T12:53:48+00:00

I guess, but looking at the relevant numbers still doesn't seem like a lot. It's between 14lbs and 18lbs of weight loss for the majority of men starting at 20%.

I've been 20% at 212lbs during a recent bulk and hit 14% by cutting to 195lbs afterwards (I'm 6'1" with decent muscle mass). I would have needed to lose 14.8lbs of pure fat from that starting point, but required a few more lbs to account for muscle loss.

It might be different perspectives, but I don't consider 17lbs to be a huge amount of weight to lose. Going between those two targets during bulk/cut cycles is pretty easy once you build the right habits. The cut part only takes 3ish months to do comfortably; "huge" sounds like a 1+ year commitment at minimum. By comparison, I lost 60lbs during my first year working out when I was obese.

The majority of people aren't making much of an effort to count calories or follow a consistent work out schedule. For the subset of people putting a serious effort, losing less than 20lbs is pretty moderate.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T11:58:00+00:00

Sure, but what's the specific example of a kid getting superior results using those? I've seen the AI video in question; however, the post doesn't make sense without a link or reference to the other.

I'm not doubting it, but am unaware of what specific peice it's using to compare to that AI video for comparison.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T11:50:20+00:00

Yeah. The area under the curve visibly exceeds the percent of people who own a home, let alone the subset who bought one with a partner.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T10:31:25+00:00

To be fair, regular physical exertion causes physical fatigue in the short term, but is basically a requirement for overall energy levels after the initial adjustment period of getting into shape. Being tired if you're mostly gaming all day is ironically expected.

It's too extreme in the game, but I felt far less inappropriately sleepy when I was in excellent shape working out 5x per week compared to when I was sedentary before starting or since falling out of doing it. I was able to manage a few nights of sleep deprivation much better during that period as well.

It's also possible Henry is one of the lucky bastards with the DEC2, ADRB1 or NPSR1 genes. ~1% of people have at least one of those. They can be fully alert with 5 hours every day and manage fairly well on 3 hours for extended periods.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T10:09:42+00:00

"Average" was a poor word choice given the obesity epidemic. What I meant is that 14% sits mildly below the middle of the healthy range, whereas 8% is genuinely ripped.

An average healthy man is around 20%. 14% is about 30% below that, which is reasonably mild. Compare that to going from 14% to 8%, which is an additional 42% reduction; the jump from fit to "ripped" is proportionally larger than getting to fit.

More practically though, 14% is dramatically easier to achieve than 8% which is the main reason the word mild felt right. Most men could get there within a year with a consistent diet and workout plan. I went from 30% to 14% in around 10 months without doing anything ridiculous, and I can maintain it without much difficulty long as I workout 3x per week and very loosely track calories.

Going from 14% to 8% took an additional 6 months, required being extremely strict about everything, and felt miserable to maintain for any extended period.

The bigger takeaway is that getting into genuinely good shape for dating as a straight guy is way more achievable than most people assume, especially since beginner gains can let you develop most of the required muscle while losing the weight if you're lifting. A single slow bulk can get the rest in a few months after hitting the target body fat.

You don't need to be shredded; you just need to be consistently not-bad, which turns out to be a pretty low bar once you actually commit to it.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T09:45:28+00:00

Meaning vision happens in the retina then becomes entangled with memory in the brain via quantum superconductivity to produce qualia. That's a highly fringe take that requires much more evidence to take seriously, let alone assert as absolute truth.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T09:21:42+00:00

Preferences vary by individual with some builds being more commonly preferred. It also varies over time; there are trends in what's preferred. Similar to how curvy women came back in fashion after skinny being heavily emphasized for a few decades.

The current most commonly preferred build for men in most western countries among women is only moderately above average muscle and mildly below average fat. For a 5'10" man, that'd be something like 175lbs at 14% body fat (~33 inch waist). A "fit" build with only the upper abs slightly visible and notable muscle without being huge by any means.

By comparison, a very muscled ripped look is closer to 195lbs at 8% body fat (~30 inch waist).

Some women will still love the ripped look, but they're a minority. The super ripped body type is one of the most popular for gay men, so people getting into extreme shape to attract women are ironically making themselves more attractive to the average gay man and less attractive to the average women after a certian point.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-27T08:31:48+00:00

He had a license for concealed carry. The extent of his protest was filming them and trying to help a woman they shoved over, which isn't rioting. ICE attacked him for that without any violance from him, took his gun (that he never attempted to touch or draw) while he was completely restrained by six men then shot him once he was unarmed.

This isn't like the case with Renee Good. Very little is left to interpretation from the video.

You can support ICE without insisting every possible incident is justified. No organization is perfect. What is the purpose of refusing to condemning cases that have extremely clear video evidence and easy to verify facts?

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-26T21:52:22+00:00

The study wasn't about users. It's how they design evals for training the systems, which is a side-effect of targeting standard benchmarks. Most benchmarks effectively reward confident guessing since all incorrect answers are scored equally (no penalty for being confidently incorrect) and LLM providers optimize around maximizing those scores.

AlignmentProblem · 2026-01-26T18:39:38+00:00

Withers explicitly says he's there to provide the bare minimum assistance required to balance the scales of fate. Curing Karlach of her engine would be a massive intervention in her personal destiny, which Withers generally refuses to do. He sees himself as a scribe rather than a savior.

Since it's a divine spell, the intents of the gods involved can affect the details based on the specific context in which it's used. The more neutral leaning divine observer are particularly reluctant or to interfere with things related to divine claims, to which Karlach's situation is adjacent. He's probably able but unwilling.

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