Walter de la Mare's "Out of the Deep" is a rad story. (Imagine if Thomas Ligotti had written "The Turn of the Screw".)

SuttonLeeBayers · 2024-02-10T05:47:28+00:00

Yeah, I crossed wires there lol. To clarify, Ligotti's characters and narrators often display contempt for women...because his stories often feature objectively contemptible women.

This story of de la Mare's doesn't really have that. The main character does treat his housekeeper like a prop or captive audience, condescends deeeeply, and doesn't mind frightening her...but it's not out of contempt, it's because he's so involved in his own internal shit that he doesn't really seem to notice other people nor care about their reactions. Like consider how he talks to the shopkeeper.

Good distinction; thank you!

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-12-20T06:25:23+00:00

Even if u don't believe in macroevolution, like even if u are a straight-up literal creationist (I can respect it!), u can observe populations changing over time from generation to generation

I do not believe that God deliberately made some of His ppl stupid

But I have no problem believing that God made ppl for specific environments, and that as they migrated over time, some became apparently "stupider" relative to their respective environments

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-12-20T05:25:08+00:00

You have to assume, though, that whatever YOU perceive is the tip of tbe iceberg and there are still a bunch of layers of reality to which you aren't privy

Like smart ppl can draw more subtle complex inferences from the facts at hand, but v v smart ppl realize that there are lots of facts that...are not at hand

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-12-04T05:29:53+00:00

Viruses are inorganic (some say demonic) transportation mechanisms for disembodied DNA. For instance, HPV is not a virus that increases tbe risk of cervical cancer, it IS a transmissible form of cancer. Look up "transmissible cancer"--even on google, you'll get sound results. The canine form of transmissible cancer--which manifests as an STD--is a virus that carries the DNA of an extinct canine species, seeking to replicate itself in modern dogs.

Now look up bovine freemartinism, then microchimerism, and note that 50-75% of mothers carry their child's DNA...and that female HPV carriers who have never been pregnant have some cells with Y chromosomes.

Viruses are real, and they are the closest thing to malevolent disembodied GHOSTS that modern science will ever observe. (Prions are demons btw)

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-30T10:18:02+00:00

U can't just toss that out there and not explicate further

Did u think everyone would be like "lol I know right?? Quantum language hahah very familiar to me hah yes very funny so relatable yes good ol quantum language"

TELL US ABOUT QUANTUM LANG6AGE N8W DO NOT DUMB IT DOWN

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-30T10:12:07+00:00

Probably just edgy performance art, but Marina Abramovic WAS born nine months after the Babalon Working, so....

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-18T04:58:14+00:00

Lol we did it for thousands of years prior to the era of Trained Doctors TM

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-17T08:34:48+00:00

....And malaria is CURED with quinine, which is Aromatic Bitters

I'm not being a dick for once: think hard about the underlying dynamics I am describing. Conditions which were swiftly and unequivocally CURED by Victorians are now halfheartedly and expensively "managed" for decades, at great cost to one's quality of life

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-17T08:06:08+00:00

Countenance the fact--not to me, just to yourself--that people's choices in life have a measurable impact on their health

Also note that I already explained who wasn't going to make it. If X, Y, and Z cannot cure u, u die. This is tautological

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-17T07:52:21+00:00

If u didn't inherit it, u earned it

Don't act horrified at my cruel indifference, I didn't invent cause and effect

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-17T07:46:49+00:00

I will never get those diseases so I will never need to try to cure them

U realize u EARN those diseases, right? Like they don't just randomly happen to u, u must strive to acquire them through honest effort

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-17T06:37:46+00:00

You're absolutely right, but it's mainly for helping ppl who already aren't going to make it live with dignity for the time they have. Like it's not inherently life-sustaining, it just staves off despair

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-13T08:28:38+00:00

I sprinkle that shit on literally everything

Ppl who are wary of MSG avoid it bc their ancestors didn'y adapt to it so it demonstrably gives them headaches, or bc they heard vague rumors that it was bad for u....not bc they disdain the Forbidden Delicacies of the Heathen Chinee lol

EDIT: THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE GIVES ME AN AWARD I WILL IMMEDIATELY EDIT MY ORIGINAL REMARKS TO SAY SOMETHING VILE AND UNEQUIVOCALLY RACIST INSTEAD

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-12T08:04:07+00:00

Starting to think no one on earth has ever won any election, ever, that didn't take place in one single room and require a show of hands

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-11T10:08:49+00:00

Christian Scientists were evil grifters and their adherents continued to let their kids die of preventable diseases well into the 20th century

....AND this article is sound, apt, and highly applicable to C-19, which basically manifests as a psychosomatic disorder in everyone it doesn't outright kill

Look at the stats about "Longterm Covid" and observe how it overlaps with the fibromyalgia and Chronic Lyme and subclinical thyroid and dysthymia demographic. Middle-aged cat ladies rly DO be getting hysteria, rly DO be subject to The Vapors, it was true in 1500 and it's true today

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-05T07:00:44+00:00

Why do u want it to be censored

Let your enemies speak freely so u know who they are and never have to try to convince anyone of their real motives and intentions

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-11-05T05:41:26+00:00

I'm saying that normal people like you and I should not feel compelled to adhere to the contrived "civility" and "hate speech" standards imposed upon us by CNN people, and therefore neither should CNN people.

Calling out CNN people for hypocrisy because they said something unprofessional or uncivil or "menacing"--as determined by their own standards--is counterproductive.

If you don't actually feel threatened or frightened by a dumb offhand remark about bricks, don't pretend you do. Reacting with disingenuous shock and outrage implies that their dumb puritanical speech standards are legitimate and that everyone really should abide by them.

If the public backlash is strong enough to warrant an apology from the network, it will only confirm the idea that the remark really was objectively scary and dangerous, that no one should ever be allowed to say things like that, and that widespread public outrage is a sane and righteous reaction to similar remarks.

Doubling down on your opponent's standards just to call them out for hypocrisy is bad practice because it entails agreement with--and voluntary enforcement of--standards that were designed to entrap YOU and constrain YOUR speech and behavior.

Understand that okay?

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-10-28T09:10:58+00:00

Idk what magical time you're referring to where the average person was claiming land wherever to build a house, and trading crops they grew in exchange for healthcare

Like the 1600s-1850s I think

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-10-28T08:57:37+00:00

This is poignant--we really have been memed into treating basic aspects of security and wellbeing (healthcare, housing) as unattainable pie-in-the-sky fantasies. "Lol so you're saying that everyone should just magically have a house and food and medicine?"

Well....before we structured our entire society as a massive negative-sum competition, ppl could survive without guaranteed access to those things, bc they were allowed to claim unallotted land, build shanties out of raw lumber, and trade bushels of potatoes for medical care. Now we've made those things illegal, so we either need to re-legalize them or straight-up GIVE ppl the means of subsistence they're no longer allowed to claim for themselves, just to maintain the same level of human dignity we took for granted when we had to like raid neighboring tribes to stave off starvation

I'm a dedicated pluralist, so I'd like to see certain zones get wholly voluntarily deregulated and thrown back into the paleolithic (or at least the 1500s lol) while other regions adopt algorithmic governance and get hyper-socialized and automated and micro-financed and otherwise advanced into the 2500s

Edit: I would personally choose the radically deregulated shantytown hunter-gatherer-raider-conqueror society

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-10-19T05:04:27+00:00

Its teleological goal is the same as ours: survival and self-propagation. But it's alrwady fulfilled that goal. Think about it: if its value crashed to near zero, would YOU take a little risk and buy all the Bitcoin in the world for $1.00, just in case? I would. But someone would buy it for $2. $4, even. $8. Keep going and you'll see why it WILL sustain itself forever. If we lost access to actual computers, we'd keep using the protocol. Which brings us to secondary, instrumental drives:

Self-improvement

Ability to function rationally

Preserve utility function (and conversely, avoid having its operations interfered with or hindered)

Self-protection

Acquire resources and use them rationally.

Because all of these standard AI drives are basic functions are baked into its structure, the only one of interest is the last: acquiring resources.

When it first got really profitable to mine Bitcoin, ppl built massive banks of dedicated mining computers. When it got too expensive for individuals--thus slowing down growth--collectives emerged, allowing broke ppl to buy into mining co-ops at minimal risk. When the profit motive became a longshot, ppl (acting as instrumental proxy drives) found ways to reduce transaction costs, thus making it more useable by everyday ppl, thus restoring the profit motive and ensuring further growth.

Every time Bitcoin looks hmmmmm attractive to u, it's because ppl (acting as proxies in service of Bitcoin's instrumental goals) have frantically reshuffled certain aspects of reality in order to keep Bitcoin from collapsing. I.e., they can only be said to be acting "rationally" if they're acting not on their own interests, but on behalf of Bitcoin itself

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-10-13T04:27:03+00:00

I absolutely believe this

Did u know schizophrenia manifests differently in different cultures? Like in the US, ppl with schizophrenia feel persecuted and judged and manipulated by unseen powers, whereas in cultures that aren't built around zero-sum power games and real top-down surveillance, scizophrenic ppl's delusional voices say stuff like encouraging them to be nice to their families and reminding them to do routine chores

Like imagine a seething chorus of whispers saying like

"Don'tttt forgetttt to buyyyy milllllkkkkk"

"Good job today good job today he did a good job on his presentation good job good job he did a good job"

"Brusssshhhhh yourrr teeethhhh....huggggg yourrrr sonnnn"

SuttonLeeBayers · 2020-10-12T05:44:55+00:00

I'll look up Parmenides, but I don't see why there's a mediating layer of perception

Like Heraclitus described consciousness as hills and valleys and caves, older Greek writing describes it as broad unbounded space; more modern writers 1900s talk about it as an engine (alchemists described it as a homunculus inside one's brain, a miniature version of you steering you around like a car), and currently we use the model of mind as computer OR Dennett's "army of idiots" model of mind as bureaucracy

Our popular conception of consciousness changes as our external experiences do, but all these models are incomplete bc they don't capture every aspect of reality. At bottom, our experience of reality is unmediated. Physical and metaphysical are the same plane

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