cptsdcarlosdevil:

fermatas-theorem:

etirabys:

a-point-in-tumblspace:

I scored 4 on this “How Puritan are you?” test.

(7 if you count the fact that my hairstyle is I guess normal in my own time)

Yudkowsky scores hilariously high on this.

- I think Eliezer counts as a weird biblical name (+3)

- Achievement in multiple unrelated fields (AI safety, Harry Potter fandom) (+3)

- Atheist, freethinker (+1)

- Really weird book they wrote: HPMOR (+1), Dark Lord’s Answer (+1), A Girl Corrupted by the Internet Is the Summoned Hero?! (+1)

- Wrote a List of Virtues (+3)

- Was definitely at one point trying to immanentize the eschaton, now dedicated to doing so safely (+3)

- Inspired by the mystical wisdom of the Far East, kinda, he’s a weeb (+3)

19, not super high but high enough to be quite funny, considering

hm, we can go higher than 19 here

pretty sure he’s got relatives with weird Biblical names (+3)

is currently waging a crusade against Death (+3)

I will refrain from arguing for ‘famous for philanthropy’ or ‘invented a new religion’ even though I want to

y’all are wimps, I score a 30

(minus three if you think I can only take “has one of these names themself” once, plus two if you agree with @consumptive-sphinx that “with you wanting me” is in fact at least three books and not one long very weird book)

Depending on where the threshold is for what I get anywhere from 19 to 37. 

But I don’t think I’d strike anyone as especially Puritan?