It's almost like men and women are different...

Fascinating article from OKCupid via onesoul analyzing how men & women rate each other as cute, and (most interestingly) how cuteness affects their messaging. One result was that men write more attractive women much more often, while women only write more attractive men slightly more often. So men value looks more than women do. This is evidence for what I've blogged before : women's...

How to save a life

...age 11-- maybe a few years from now, when we have a clearer resolution, I'll tell more of the story, or ask her to do so. For now, suffice to say that I have tremendous hope for this one. Patrissimo once said that helping people at the direct, individual level *feels* really good, and he's right. He also said that it makes less of a global difference, and he might be right about that, too. For ...

The Singularity

Recently patrissimo posted some videos from the Singularity Summit: http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/1252373.html I knew that the "Singularity" had something to do with anti-aging and eventual immortality. Yet despite working with, around, and on AI problems for most of my life I wasn't aware that the "Singularity" was also about artificial intelligence. Specifically, the ...

patrissimo writes concerning hate crimes legislation, what I think is a fairly standard and not unreasonable position held generally by conservatives and probably most libertarians: The idea of passing a hate crimes law based partly on Shepard's death is ludicrous. The poor kid got *murdered*. Murder is already illegal. If murder isn't illegal enough, then it should be more fucking ...

Floating innovative ideas in a sea of creativity

Original: craschworks Please leave any comments there. First mainstream coverage of Ephemerisle, via patrissimo : Floating innovative ideas in a sea of creativity This is Ephemerisle, the latest defiant undermining of the stereotype that California’s tech grotto has no artistic or real-world skills to call its own. The idea, when hatched, was as wobbly as the ferry: hold a festival ...

Floating innovative ideas in a sea of creativity

Original: craschworks - comments First mainstream coverage of Ephemerisle, via . Floating innovative ideas in a sea of creativity This is Ephemerisle, the latest defiant undermining of the stereotype that California’s tech grotto has no artistic or real-world skills to call its own. The idea, when hatched, was as wobbly as the ferry: hold a festival on water, built and then ...

On my offensiveness in my blog

flamingnerd posted an offended comment on my SWPL post which criticized people who get offended. Her comment concluded with: I'm tired of holding my tongue when someone who has an enourmous capacity for critical thought and good leadership throws around ideas related to racism and sexism in a manner that seems irresponsible and potentially harmful. It sounds almost like she's been ...

Seasteading ‘09 and Ephemerisle coming up

Via Patri : I’d like to remind everyone of our upcoming Second Annual Conference and First-Ever Ephemerisle Festival , where the far-flung seasteading community will gather in person to explore the theory and practice of seasteading. Second Annual Seasteading Conference People from from across the globe have registered to see esteemed speakers like TSI Funder and PayPal founder ...

My Playa Adventure -Burning Man 2009 Lovely. Via patrissimo

Seasteading Conference - Registration / Publicity

... Mencius Moldbug, David Friedman (my dad), Erwin Strauss (who literally wrote the book on "How To Start Your Own Country"), as well as jhogan , syncretin , willmagic , eelcoh , patrissimo , and many more. Give your own talk in the Unconference portion, run by crasch ! Early registration ends Sunday, so register today ! And if you know anyone who ...