Firstly, I don’t agree with that Burroughs quote that “Rational thought is a failed experiment”—I mostly just tweeted it because I thought it was funny! I’m not sure Burroughs agreed with his own quote either. He also liked to say that linguistic communication was a failed experiment, introduced by women to help them oppress men into social conformity. Yet he was a writer and loved language. He enjoyed being a provocateur.
Hehe...a lot of Less Wrong people are completely incapable to deal with such behavior. Very often I get accused of, “You wrote that...” and if I say that it was obviously fun or that it isn’t my actual position I get accused of being dishonest or endless other things.
If you want to talk to Less Wrong you have to be a fucking robot...a psychopathic robot. Colloquial language and an informal style are a red rag to them.
XiXiDu, hear me: LessWrong has contemptibly bad epistemic habits. They’re kind of retarded and they don’t realize it. Continued disagreement with them is perfectly okay. If they can’t satisfactorily back up their claims that probably means they’re way overconfident in them. You shouldn’t feel super stressed all the time just because a group of self-aggrandizing nutjobs on the internet disagrees with you about semi-metaphysical Far mode bullshit.
Hehe...a lot of Less Wrong people are completely incapable to deal with such behavior. Very often I get accused of, “You wrote that...” and if I say that it was obviously fun or that it isn’t my actual position I get accused of being dishonest or endless other things.
If you want to talk to Less Wrong you have to be a fucking robot...a psychopathic robot. Colloquial language and an informal style are a red rag to them.
XiXiDu, hear me: LessWrong has contemptibly bad epistemic habits. They’re kind of retarded and they don’t realize it. Continued disagreement with them is perfectly okay. If they can’t satisfactorily back up their claims that probably means they’re way overconfident in them. You shouldn’t feel super stressed all the time just because a group of self-aggrandizing nutjobs on the internet disagrees with you about semi-metaphysical Far mode bullshit.