Hmm… Maybe there should be a way to spoiler-hide tags on posts? Cause not tagging it dath ilan would mean it wouldn’t be discoverable through the tag page, which also isn’t great.
I didn’t look at the tags before reading. I did notice it was fiction pretty quickly but “is this dath ilan” was still a live question for me until the reveal. (Though Eliezer might want to continue writing some non-dath ilan fiction occasionally, if he wants that to continue to be a likely thought process.)
I didn’t notice the author, nor the tags. My thought when the article asked for a prediction was that they grew up in a Jainist community of some kind, although I realized that Jainists may not have their own television shows, and the probability of someone from LessWrong having grown up in a Jainist community is probably less likely than that they grew up in a cult of some kind. But cults are even less likely to have their own television shows, I surmised, at which point I decided the point about television shows was probably rhetorical. That’s when I decided the entire thing might be rhetorical, so it wasn’t actually worth making a prediction.
I got to the part about writing down a prediction, which prompted me to pay closer attention, and it was only at that point I noticed the “fiction” tag.
I thought it was obviously fiction, but I didn’t know that it was set in Dath Ilan, and the fact that it’s set in Dath Ilan would give away that the red hair thing is fake.
Don’t tag “dath ilan”, please; tags are shown at top and that’s a humongous spoiler.
Hmm… Maybe there should be a way to spoiler-hide tags on posts? Cause not tagging it dath ilan would mean it wouldn’t be discoverable through the tag page, which also isn’t great.
Make a stub page with the dath ilan tag that links to this one?
Or put a spoilered link to this post in the dath ilan tag’s wiki text?
That would be nice, but it strikes me as something that would be somewhat low on the priority list.
Honestly “fiction” was enough of a spoiler. “As a child, we were always told that every sapient life is precious.” made it a certainty.
I didn’t look at the tags before reading. I did notice it was fiction pretty quickly but “is this dath ilan” was still a live question for me until the reveal. (Though Eliezer might want to continue writing some non-dath ilan fiction occasionally, if he wants that to continue to be a likely thought process.)
I didn’t notice the author, nor the tags. My thought when the article asked for a prediction was that they grew up in a Jainist community of some kind, although I realized that Jainists may not have their own television shows, and the probability of someone from LessWrong having grown up in a Jainist community is probably less likely than that they grew up in a cult of some kind. But cults are even less likely to have their own television shows, I surmised, at which point I decided the point about television shows was probably rhetorical. That’s when I decided the entire thing might be rhetorical, so it wasn’t actually worth making a prediction.
I got to the part about writing down a prediction, which prompted me to pay closer attention, and it was only at that point I noticed the “fiction” tag.
That’s supposed to be a spoiler? I thought it was obvious from like the third paragraph.
I thought it was obviously fiction, but I didn’t know that it was set in Dath Ilan, and the fact that it’s set in Dath Ilan would give away that the red hair thing is fake.