Tumblr should let you assign aliases to followees that are displayed instead of their usernames and persist across username changes. I would rather be able to tell who people are than see what imaginative new usernames everyone has come up with this week, it gets confusing :/

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Okay! Let’s start in a former Soviet nuclear bunker, and then work our way through to Disneyland, Area 51, the Holocaust Museum, Big Ben, the Large Hadron Collider, Platform 9 ¾, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the tall grass near Pallet Town, the Mediterranean Sea, Wikipedia, etc., before finally finishing on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Every day when I wake up, I think to myself, “What would be the optimally flowy and majestic thing I could do today?” I then do whatever that thing it.

I’ve got electrolytes.

hello

does that answer your question?

~I don’t know who that is or what this means~

Don’t let the future turn out like this super depressing European synthpop.

★ Immortality now! ★

charlesincharge42:

futuresushi:

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky (guy whose writings I link to on a lot of transhumanist subjects; guy who looks a little bit like Smythe; my rationality idol; smartest person in the world; etc.) is writing a Harry Potter fanfic/parody in an alternate universe where Petunia married an eminent physics biochemistry professor instead of Vernon Dursley, and the professor raised Harry to be a skeptical rationalist.

Eliezer hasn’t finished writing it yet. I’m on the second chapter right now. It’s a bit WTFy, but pretty fun.

Ædit: A small sample:

Harry was breathing in short pants. His voice came out choked. “You can’t DO that!”

“It’s only a Transfiguration,” said McGonagall. “An Animagus transformation, to be exact.”

“You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That’s not just an arbitrary rule, it’s implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signaling! And cats are COMPLICATED! A human mind can’t just visualize a whole cat’s anatomy and, and all the cat biochemistry, and what about the neurology? How can you go on thinking using a cat-sized brain?”

McGonagall’s lips were twitching harder now. “Magic.”

“Magic isn’t enough to do that! You’d have to be a god!”

I honestly want him to turn this into a whole book that i could purchase because it’d be the greatest.

Indeed, I’d buy it. Too bad about copyright law.

Fortunately, he already has enough writing online to fill several awesome books (he’s working on compiling his first right now, IIRC)… but none of them would be rationalist Harry Potter fanfiction :(