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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 04:22

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3382551

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-02-01 at 23:04

www.lesswrong.com/posts/…/re-taste

A random walk, in retrospect, looks like like directional movement at a speed of √n.

No it doesn’t, you fools, you absolute rubes

If you consider your normative values to be true, then everything looks like progress.

wat

Scott Alexander was a founding though-leader behind the Lightcone salon.

Your future region of the spacetime diagram is inside a locker, nerd

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Written by Sailor Sega Saturn on 2025-02-01 at 23:49

Aaaah my eyes

The Great City was built on a modular grid system designed to eliminate geography.

This future doesn’t have hexagons so I already hate it. Hexagons are the bestagons.

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Written by swlabr@awful.systems on 2025-02-02 at 03:00

Hexagons are great, would love to see some hexagon based city plans. Especially if they have designed for walkability and public transport!

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Written by Sailor Sega Saturn on 2025-02-02 at 04:21

Heck yeah walkability!

Also note how the author said the city transcends geography, as if geography was something useless or to be overcome by an advanced civilization (except for a bunch of artsy folks tucked away in a corner I guess?). But humans need variety. I would get so antsy if I lived in a perfect grid city with nothing out of order (or even a perfect hexagon city, no offense hexagons). There need to be paths and trails and rivers. There need to be trees and mountains in the distance.

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Written by swlabr@awful.systems on 2025-02-02 at 04:58

Yeah weird thing to eliminate from a city, or weird thing to see without context. Basically: Wrongers try and envision a better world without deleting the parts of human experience that make it meaningful or worthwhile challenge (impossible)

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Toot

Written by swlabr@awful.systems on 2025-02-02 at 05:00

The ideal wronger future after all is a simulation where human experience is deleted altogether!

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