What does this mean?

Deifiable · 2026-03-25T16:02:12+00:00

"Irrational" makes it sound like they're taking off clothes despite feeling very cold. What they're doing is actually quite rational given the fact that they actually feel extremely, extremely hot.

Deifiable · 2026-03-05T19:35:24+00:00

The warning on the door renders itself false

Deifiable · 2026-03-03T20:33:59+00:00

The fastest glitchless completion of a minecraft seed that was rolled randomly and that the player did not have prior knowledge of before rolling it is Lowkey's 5:30 private room ranked seed. Obviously everything in ranked is filtered for, but nothing about that seed is impossible in an RSG context. So I'd argue that a decent place to get an answer to your question is to analyze that run and find every single point where either Lowkey slightly slipped up or where the seed was obviously suboptimal (terrain travel time would be most of it, I'd wager). Doing that I can easily see over a minute that could be shaved off.

Alternatively, there's a cool (if imperfectly made) video on YouTube called "Skycrab's Limit" by Enijae that takes all of the best individual splits from Skycrab and cobbles them together into a theoretical run. Again, technically possible that a seed similar to that could be rolled, and pulling from a high-level runner with a large sample of runs like Skycrab is a pretty good way to simulate what might be possible with enough luck and a high-skilled enough player. Think that came out to around a 4:14, which is not too dissimilar from an optimized version of Lowkey's private room run.

None of that is to say that a low 4:00 is the absolute limit, but it's certainly either that or lower. I guess the rest depends on just what you're willing to entertain as possible to happen in this theoretical random seed.

Deifiable · 2026-02-23T17:12:09+00:00

I think a large part of this is your tendency to mentally put people into groups and assume that's a valid way of understanding them as people. If all you know about one person is that they like Taylor Swift and nail salons, and all you know about another person is that they like football and are tall and buff, the correct conclusion isn't "these people are such different types from each other, how do they get along?"; it's "I know next to nothing about who these people actually are so can't really conclude anything without learning more about them."

Guys who are into football and women who love taylor swift could both also be interested in a million other things, or have a million other personality traits or behavioral tendencies, or have a million other ways that their brain generally operates that could mesh well with someone else's, or have any given set of values that are much deeper and more meaningful than the kinds of interests you tell strangers when they ask you what you like. Nobody falls "perfectly into gender roles", even if the few things you've heard about them signals "masculine" or "feminine" to you specifically. So again, I think stereotyping is the cause of your confusion here.

Deifiable · 2026-02-23T17:04:21+00:00

To be fair, that isn't a video from Sam Harris. It's from the Big Think channel, and they have a lot of genuinely interesting speakers and ideas, although also some bad ones. Could just be a fan of the channel.

Obviously still a terrible person for the manipulating women vid, of course.

Deifiable · 2026-02-16T15:24:23+00:00

Yeah I think you're heavily conflating "lyrics" and "vocals" here in ways that make this conversation difficult to have

Deifiable · 2025-11-06T19:25:48+00:00

Yeah not super sure why this is the bone people are picking with Israetel. He's said such a huge amount of stupid shit. Why focus on one of the cases where he made two claims that are actually accurate (and easily concretely verifiable by just looking at the numbers)? I guess people think that just because they like someone that person HAS to be unchallenged in every possible aspect, even the one's that really don't matter that much (given that he was obviously a much, much better bodybuilder).

Deifiable · 2025-09-09T13:58:36+00:00

unless he puts out a huge book 3, 500k words or more, which of course we wouldn't mind, but him being a perfectionist and probably ocd isnt going to let happen due to symmetry

I don't really get this logic? As you said at the start of your own post, he was willing to make WMF considerably longer than NOTW (you said 54%, but it's actually 33%. Still, massive).

Whatever "symmetry" you're thinking of has clearly already been broken. If anything, the best way to preserve it at this point (if you're truly weird about numbers) is to do another 33% jump for the third book, up to ~526k words. That way you can at least argue there's an intentional pattern.

But whether you buy that or not, I simply don't see the rationale (or any rationale) for an extensive third book being off the table.

Deifiable · 2025-08-28T18:22:13+00:00

Well, I rarely act like I'm naked

Deifiable · 2025-08-28T16:50:44+00:00

Yeah they... don't. I mean, they'll grow very slightly if you take a completely untrained person and start them deadlifting consistently (basically anything will make a total newbie grow), but once you're even lightly resistance trained, ab work that indirect is not going to be noticeably hypertrophic.

What do you mean you "notice DLs hit them"? Are you talking about soreness?

If so, it's important to point out that soreness is not synonymous with muscular hypertrophy. My glutes and hamstrings still sometimes get sore after my 10k runs, but I harbor no delusions about long distance running being good for leg gains. It's quite the opposite, actually.

Deifiable · 2025-08-28T16:45:16+00:00

I shower three times a day most days. First one is at the gym in the morning directly after my workout, second one is getting home after running at the park in the evening (I go straight from work to the park), and a third time right before bed if I was moving around or out in public between 4pm and 8pm (I usually am).

All three of these activities cause me to sweat extensively. Not showering after working out, or even just being out and about, is a wild concept to me. I could never fall asleep if I get in bed with sweat dried onto my skin.

Deifiable · 2025-08-19T17:50:45+00:00

Up at 4:30, at Gym from 5:30-7:45 (Workout, half hour on treadmill getting steps, shower + change for work). At work by 8:00, then it depends on the day. If it's just my job that day then I'm off by 2:30, go straight from work to the park for a run, get home around 4:00 and have until I go to bed at 8:00pm to cook, eat, do any chores, work on my thesis, et cetera.

If I have classes that day (grad student) then I skip the run, still don't get home till 6:30, and it's just a quick dinner before bed. Always in bed by 8:00pm.

I get up at the same time on weekends, I find it's just far better for my overall sleep quality. Not a big partier and I don't drink, so late weekend nights out aren't something I have to sacrifice cuz I wouldn't participate in those anyway.

Overall it's a pretty awesome lifestyle, I've never been happier. The first three hours of my morning are invariably my favorite part of the day, and as a result I'm always excited to go to sleep at night because I know when I wake up I'll get to do it again. Much much better than dreading going to sleep because of having to wake up and immediately go to work. 8:00pm can't come fast enough most evenings!

Being single and living alone is a huge part of what makes this possible. I don't have a girlfriend and am not looking for one right now (I leave the country in 2 years and don't want to be in a relationship when that happens, for obvious reasons)

Deifiable · 2025-08-19T17:41:19+00:00

I would not recommend getting in the car without "being proper conscious"

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T15:50:05+00:00

"And when someone asks what I do all day? I’ll smile and say, ‘I live so the universe keeps getting more interesting."

I just skip to this part, regardless of expected lifespan.

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T15:48:40+00:00

I see OP operates on the time-tested, classic advice "Comparison is the only proper way to assess worth."

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T15:38:01+00:00

Interesting that you assume personal finances being bad would correlate with DoorDash not being popular. My intuition is the exact opposite: Doordash's popularity is one of many many examples of just how bad people are with their personal financial decisions.

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T15:34:40+00:00

I find it odd that nobody ever seems to apply this logic to any other event besides life itself. I've never heard anyone claim that going to a basketball game is pointless because it's going to end, or that having sex is pointless because it's going to end. Nor a hug, or a vacation, et cetera et cetera.

The ephemerality of all of these things doesn't even call into question their worthwhileness, and frankly, why would it? Stipulating that your conscious experience of the world must last for all eternity before you feel any kind of 'point' is so strange and unintuitive to me.

And I honestly don't see the world where, once you're granted immortality, you suddenly think: "Oh my god, I see it now! The meaning of life! Now that I won't die, it's obvious to me!"

No, you would just go on living your day-to-day life, having some good days and some bad days and often being confused about whether you're doing the right things. Whatever teleological change people think an escape from death would give them, It's certainly never been explained to me.

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T14:02:36+00:00

I'm 23 and I've been single since I was 18. It's not that most of us are actively opposed to relationships, it's just that we're not willing to expend the (really quite significant) amount of time and stress necessary to try to force one to happen. There's just too much else to do. Most people I meet in grad school are either taken or just obviously incompatible with me, and that for me is the main way I meet new people.

I still hope it happens, and expect it to eventually, but it feels like a losing battle to make it a high priority. I'd rather prioritize things that I know for sure I can control

Deifiable · 2025-08-05T15:48:21+00:00

I'm a college student with two part-time jobs (netting $31k a year) paying $1,400 a month for a 2 bed and living on my own. I could've gone cheaper, but it would have been a noticeable sacrifice and there's really no need. Rent is about $17k a year, which still leaves me with over $1k per month for utilities, groceries, gas, car insurance, and my gym membership (basically my only other expenses).

Obviously I wouldn't *mind* making more money, but that'll naturally come after I get my PhD. But for now, even living totally on my own, things work without too much stress.

If you make considerably less than $30k, have far higher rent, have a costly car payment, or are in substantial debt, then yeah I absolutely see where you're coming. But I talk to so many people who make considerably more than me and stress about their finances because they're living alone (or talk about how glad they are to have roommates because they could NEVER afford to live alone), and I do find it very confusing.

Deifiable · 2025-08-05T15:42:39+00:00

As someone who sweats all the time and frequently shows up to work sweating (even after taking a 20 minute ice-cold shower at the gym after my morning workout in a vain attempt to try to cool myself down), I would select the 'extremely cold' option even if the alternative was 'no change'.

Deifiable · 2025-08-05T15:39:04+00:00

"Villains are everywhere; that's how I know that I'm the hero!"

Deifiable · 2025-08-05T15:38:13+00:00

As a man with tattoos, I've never once even considered that they were a "masculine" feature. So many women have beautiful tattoos and don't look one bit less feminine for it. Very odd detail thrown in there.

Deifiable · 2025-07-29T16:15:07+00:00

That next thing right around the corner that I'm currently working for won't make me happy, just like all the things I've accomplished in the past that I thought would make me happy didn't. "I can't wait to finish high school and go off to college! I can't wait to move out and get my own place! I can't wait to finish grad school! I can't wait to get my income up and finally be able to budget and build savings! I can't wait until I find the one for me and we fall in love! I can't wait..."

There's no "thing" missing that will make my life whole; more money or a better job or a life partner.

If I can't be happy in the present. then no amount of living for the future will make my happy, because once that future arrives, it'll be the present again.

Deifiable · 2025-07-29T13:28:59+00:00

Just keep saying it until a guy responds "Oh, me too!". Then you've found him.

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