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6000 years ago God decided which Calvinists go to Heaven by predicting which Calvinists will be virtuous.
You are a Calvinist, nothing you do now can change God's decision, and you prefer sin to virtue.
Choose:
36%Sin
64%Be virtuous
91 votes • 2 days
It's interesting that spiciness is a poison, but we evolved to like the taste, BUT it's still somewhat aversive even though it's fine to eat.
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what do you mean "are you okay?"????
of course i am okay!
i built the tub!
i'm the one turning up temperature!!
mmfgfhhhhgh waaarmmm
Building AI is an existential risk, to discourage AI risk we must be able to hedge against it, to hedge against the extinction of humanity we must have counterparties who survive humanity, to have counterparties that survive humanity we must build AI
First vocabulary test I've taken that I didn't get perfect on, I'm impressed
This one was fun. Because it's adaptive, most of the test is right at your level of ability, so it's neither boring nor overly challe ging (though I will say that a few of the hardest ones I was entirely guessing)
taketest.xyz/vocab-cat
Only tangentially related but it is odd how there have been relatively few wars about religion, given the high stakes. And most of those religious wars that did happen had a big political component. Altruistic war isn't adaptive I guess?
