I don’t think “true if big” is a good claim to make? Plenty of things have gotten big that aren’t true, and the argument ‘move’ of “noticing that someone’s claim proves a lot” is a good one to make without implying the converse.
(epistemic status: yes, I am aware the parent comment is a joke) (joke status: poor. explaining the joke makes it worse)
I can’t think of examples off the top of my head but I think that I often find myself wishing a certain react exist or noticing that none of the reacts indicate what I want.
A “big if true” react could theoretically make sense on pure literal detonation alone, but, like, the actual connotations of it in the English language are way too snarky for LW norms.
True; although symbolic ambiguity (requiring a caption to explain) seems to be acceptable.
I thought at first that the current “bowels of Christ” tag meant “gut feeling”; that the “bowing out” top-hat meant “I tip my hat”; and I mistook Moloch as being Baphomet (!) and likely signifying “this is esoteric”.
Why? Take the existing symbols and then tell an chatbot to design your symbol in a similar style for it. Maybe let it design 20, then pick your favorite. Then you can iterate variations based on the favorite.
I gave gpt-image-v2 the task (just to see how good current image generation is at minimalistic art/icons[1]), and it made these:
gpt-image-v2 image generations of LessWrong reacts for ‘Big, if/iff true’
I don’t really like any of them, the first one is overly generic, the second one is not passable (too complex, doesn’t even show a biconditional), and the last one looks like AI slop (because it is).
which is the type I mostly do w.r.t. software development; I am moderately good at it for that reason, and probably could make a LW-like reaction icon for this decently quickly (if I had a good idea, which I don’t)
LW react suggestion: “big if true”
I prefer big iff true
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I don’t think “true if big” is a good claim to make? Plenty of things have gotten big that aren’t true, and the argument ‘move’ of “noticing that someone’s claim proves a lot” is a good one to make without implying the converse.
(epistemic status: yes, I am aware the parent comment is a joke)
(joke status: poor. explaining the joke makes it worse)
Not an emoji suggestion, but my mental picture of bigness vs. truth:
I can’t think of examples off the top of my head but I think that I often find myself wishing a certain react exist or noticing that none of the reacts indicate what I want.
Combine these two emojis: 🤔 and 🤯.
Google’s Emoji Kitchen yields:
A “big if true” react could theoretically make sense on pure literal detonation alone, but, like, the actual connotations of it in the English language are way too snarky for LW norms.
Huh, I guess I’m not familiar with the connotations? I l’m used to seeing it used literally.
Hard to find a symbol for that.
An elephant. Elephants are famously big, and if your neighbor says they have one in their living room, that’s probably not true.
An elephant could be read as “The elephant in the room”, which is another concept.
True; although symbolic ambiguity (requiring a caption to explain) seems to be acceptable.
I thought at first that the current “bowels of Christ” tag meant “gut feeling”; that the “bowing out” top-hat meant “I tip my hat”; and I mistook Moloch as being Baphomet (!) and likely signifying “this is esoteric”.
This applies to most solid things that are larger than a living room. such as a whale, or the moon
Elephants are also the subject of silly jokes that hinge on their bigness, and their possible presence or absence, e.g.:
Alice: “Why do elephants wear red nail polish?”
Bob: “I don’t know. Why?”
A: “To hide in strawberry patches. Did you ever see an elephant in a strawberry patch?”
B: “No...”
A: “That’s how you know it works!”
The humor of elephant jokes largely centers around the “big if true” nature of an unlikely claim about elephants.
“How many elephants can you fit in a Volkswagen? Five: two in the front seat, two in the back, and one in the glove compartment.”
gustaf’s one seems fine.
exclamation mark?
Why? Take the existing symbols and then tell an chatbot to design your symbol in a similar style for it. Maybe let it design 20, then pick your favorite.
Then you can iterate variations based on the favorite.
I gave gpt-image-v2 the task (just to see how good current image generation is at minimalistic art/icons[1]), and it made these:
gpt-image-v2 image generations of LessWrong reacts for ‘Big, if/iff true’
I don’t really like any of them, the first one is overly generic, the second one is not passable (too complex, doesn’t even show a biconditional), and the last one looks like AI slop (because it is).
which is the type I mostly do w.r.t. software development; I am moderately good at it for that reason, and probably could make a LW-like reaction icon for this decently quickly (if I had a good idea, which I don’t)