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 [Condemnation of 1277]: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/condemnation/
 [Cula-Malunkyovada Sutra]: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.063.than.html
 [Fake Sky]: http://computationaltheology.blogspot.com/2012/05/superintelligent-solution-to-fermi.html
+[Basic Laws of Human Stupidity]: http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidity.htm
 
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content_blog/propaganda/condemnation.mkd

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Lest, therefore, this unguarded speech lead simple people into error or waste th
 
 We likewise condemn the books, blogs and tweets dealing with [algorithmancy][Algorithmancy], or containing experiments in fortunetelling, [invocations of demons][Ontological Therapy] or incantations endangering lives, or in which these and similar things evidently contrary to expert opinion and good sanity are treated.
 
-We pronounce the sentence of excommunication against all those who shall have taught the said errors or any one of them, or shall have dared in any way to defend or uphold them, or even to listen to them, unless they choose to [openly mock][AntiANtrollbot] them; in addition to which we shall proceed against them by inflicting such other penalties as [the law][Rule of Funny] requires according to the hilarity of the offense. 
+We pronounce the sentence of excommunication against all those who shall have taught the said errors or any one of them, or shall have dared in any way to defend or uphold them, or even to listen to them, unless they choose to [openly mock][AntiANtrollbot] them or go meta on them; in addition to which we shall proceed against them by inflicting such other penalties as [the law][Rule of Funny] requires according to the hilarity of the offense. 
 
 Given in the year of the Lord 2012, on the Sunday on which Italy defeated England in the UEFA European Football Championship.
 

content_daily/log/60.mkd

@@ -11,7 +11,18 @@ I've started to acquire quite a lot of sub-sites, so I decided to re-tool the ma
 
 <http://muflax.com> is now a (simple) portal for all my sites, and the articles hosted directly there are Big Fat Things That Grow Over Time[^yo] But Have A Kind Of Limited Scope And Are At Some Point Done And Self-Contained. BFTTGOTBHAKOLSAAASPDASCs. (In [antediluvian][] times, I think they called those thing "books". Or a "tractatus". Something like that.) For now, they are either way-too-ambitious posts like the [Antinatalism FAQ][] or stuff that all belongs together, in some sense.
 
-I'll unify some more stuff into single articles (like the antinatalism one), once there's a bit more content and I'm in the mood. I don't want to end up like Certain People who have elaborate intelligent arguments spread out over a bazillion blog posts and you can't just say, "read this huge site here, it contains everything you need to know".[^meta]
+I'll unify some more stuff[^crack] into single articles (like the antinatalism one), once there's a bit more content and I'm in the mood. I don't want to end up like Certain People who have elaborate intelligent arguments spread out over a bazillion blog posts and you can't just say, "read this huge site here, it contains everything you need to know".[^meta]
+
+I even used some fancy CSS and icons. Look ma, I'm not completely stuck in the 90's like you always say! I can do this "web" stuff!
+
+[^crack]:
+    Even though apparently no one paid any attention to it whatsoever, I've finally come up with the slogan for my (unfinished) [Crackpot Theory][Crackpot Theory]: "doing for crackpottery what theologians did for religion".
+
+    <% skip do %>    
+    (I'm still slightly saddened that my favorite posts were, with [one exception][Against Pessimism], also the ones that it seems no one *but* me liked, while the crazy bullshit gets all the attention.
+
+    I tells ya, in a few decades, I'll rank right up there with Cipolla's [Basic Laws of Human Stupidity][]. Just you wait.)
+    <% end %>
 
 Also, there is now an additional [universal RSS feed][Universal RSS] that includes *all* sites. (So you don't need 50 different feeds if you follow all my stuff anyway.) You can of course still follow individual feeds as always.
 
@@ -26,8 +37,6 @@ Also, there is now an additional [universal RSS feed][Universal RSS] that includ
     but here's my axioms  
     so believe me maybe  
     
-Might even use some pretty CSS or something soon. Right after I've watched this cat jump into a box. Haha, you so funny, cat.
-
 [^yo]: Insert obvious yo mamma joke here.
 
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@@ -89,7 +98,7 @@ The most important reason for the Condemnation, besides Doing The Catholic Thing
 
 Also:
 
-- I: Is it true you *believe* these things, to some degree?
+- I: Is it true you *believe*[^believe] these things, to some degree?
 - W: Well yes. You should take it seriously, shouldn't you?
 - I: Do you remember the Fifth Commandment?
 - W: "A Discordian is Prohibited from Believing What he reads."
@@ -99,6 +108,17 @@ Also:
 
 Yeah.
 
+[^believe]:
+    <% skip do %>
+    Here's a really cool insight via Brian Lee on LW:
+
+    > My microwave clock has been broken since a power outage. It now reads something like 7 hours behind the real time. I've been too lazy to fix it, but the bright side is that it's 7 hours behind, and not 15 minutes behind. If it were 15 minutes behind, then who knows - I might mistake it to be the correct time, and end up fifteen minutes late to an appointment.
+
+    Apply this to beliefs. If you *must* think about philosophy, do so in a way that is transparently, blatantly wrong, so you never accidentally confuse your model with reality. Talk about God and angels and shit, not "aboutness" and "value".
+
+    A further advantage of openly being a crackpot, I guess.
+    <% end %>
+
 There is, of course, also the historical in-joke about the nature of the Condemnation itself. Back in '77, the Bishop of Paris decided that all them Aristotelian cranks running around was no good and Something Had To Be Done. So he banned them all, including, ironically enough, a lot of Aquinas' stuff which mostly got caught in the crossfire. (Aquinas would later be recognized as The Biggest Deal In Catholic Theology, second maybe only to Augustine.) 
 
 However, because Jesus keeps on trolling Christians from beyond the grave, the Condemnation actually worked and everyone shut up about Aristotle and his ancient nonsense for just long enough that the philosophers could try some alternatives, and re-invent science and theology once again.
@@ -107,4 +127,4 @@ Which is exactly what I'm trying to do too, by ditching topics I can't possibly
 
 Though I suspect that some of these problems are completely imagined on my side, and I just worry too much why no one has solved existence yet, when that isn't even a question I *should* be worrying about. Worrying about beliefs is a fairly bad fail for someone arguing that beliefs are tools, after all.
 
-So this Condemnation is substantially aimed at *myself*, to stop me from wasting cognitive resources, instead of doing useful stuff, like learn Sumerian.
+So this Condemnation is substantially aimed at *myself*, to stop me from wasting cognitive resources, instead of doing useful stuff, like learning Sumerian.