Not a yawn and not a shiver and not a sneeze and you've always wanted to do it and it's never happened.

Surrounded by clouds of illdefinition.

Proposed personality trait: "reification style."

Some are monophysical, some are polyphysical

Welcome to you have to water it down, population when your coffee is too strong.

Welcome to <complete sentence>, population <complete sentence>.

Welcome to X, population Y.

A superintelligence has the advantages of long-term thinking at small timescales, but also the advantages of short-term thinking at long timescales.

Their bodies felt atemporal because the same structures were used to model their self throughout their life. Long sessions of reminiscence or planning left them feeling especially timeless & ageless.

Their bodies felt impersonal because the same structures were used to model their self as to model conspecifics within their field of view. Large groups gained Platonically perfect self-images.

Mechanical devices run by small-time forgotten gods. The gods find someone who believes in the way their phone or car or sink works without understanding it. Then when it fails, they move in, making it operate as expected, and the gods are sustained by the belief the owner holds.

The feeling of being ready to believe whatever a not-yet-begun thought process comes up with.

A game where the powerups mostly prey upon biases to make you feel like your score is getting higher, rather than actually helping.

"measure twice cut once" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person measures 0 times per cut. Measure Georg, who lives in cave & measures over 10,000 times each cut, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

If you're cutting a log base two, you measure 1, cut 0.

If you cross your eyes you can measure once, uncross eyes, cut once.

In three dimensions, measure six times, cut once.

A society optimized to manufacture interesting false memories.