Although I expect it’ll be an anticlimax after all this build-up.
It will, despite my fantasies, be anticlimactic, as you predict. While I predicted this already, I didn’t predict that you would consciously and vocally predict this yourself. My model updates as thus: Though I was not consciously aware of the possibility of stating my predictions being an invitation for you to state your own set of predictions, I am now aware that such a result is possible. What scenarios the practice is useful in, why it works, how it fails, when it does, and all such related questions are unknown. (This could be why my brain didn’t think to inform my consciousness of the possibility, now that I think about it in writing this.) A more useful tool is that I can now read that prediction as a strong potential from a state of it not having been stated; I can now read inferential silence slightly better. If not for general contexts, then at least for LessWrong to whatever degree. Most useful of all data packed into that sentence is this: I now know, dividing out the apathy, carelessness, and desires for the last word and Internet Correction, what you’re contextually looking for in this conversation. Effectively, I’m measuring your factored interest in what I have to say. The next factor to divide out is the pretense/build-up.
Maybe what I’ve written here gives you some idea of how to pitch it.
Certainly so, insofar as you were willing to reply. Though you didn’t seem it and there was no evidence, the thought crossed my mind that I’d gone too far and you were just not going to bother responding. I didn’t think I exceeded your boundaries, but I’ve known LessWongers to conceal their true standards, in order to more fully detect “loonies” or “crackpots.”
There’s no sentence I can form (Understand style) that will stun you with sheer realization (rather than be more likely to convince you of lessened intelligence). This is primarily because building the framework for such realizations results in a level of understanding that makes the lone trigger assertion seem mundane by conceptual ambiance. That is, I predict that there is nothing I can say about my predictions of you that you will both recognize as accurate while also recognizing as extraordinary. I have one more primary prediction to make, but I’ll keep it to myself for the moment.
I predict that there is nothing I can say about my predictions of you that you will both recognize as accurate while also recognizing as extraordinary.
Yes, I expect whatever big conclusion you’re winding up to will prove either true & trivial, or surprising & false. (I am still a bit curious as to whether you’ll take the boring route or the crackpot route, although my curiosity is hardening into impatience.)
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It will, despite my fantasies, be anticlimactic, as you predict. While I predicted this already, I didn’t predict that you would consciously and vocally predict this yourself. My model updates as thus: Though I was not consciously aware of the possibility of stating my predictions being an invitation for you to state your own set of predictions, I am now aware that such a result is possible. What scenarios the practice is useful in, why it works, how it fails, when it does, and all such related questions are unknown. (This could be why my brain didn’t think to inform my consciousness of the possibility, now that I think about it in writing this.) A more useful tool is that I can now read that prediction as a strong potential from a state of it not having been stated; I can now read inferential silence slightly better. If not for general contexts, then at least for LessWrong to whatever degree. Most useful of all data packed into that sentence is this: I now know, dividing out the apathy, carelessness, and desires for the last word and Internet Correction, what you’re contextually looking for in this conversation. Effectively, I’m measuring your factored interest in what I have to say. The next factor to divide out is the pretense/build-up.
Certainly so, insofar as you were willing to reply. Though you didn’t seem it and there was no evidence, the thought crossed my mind that I’d gone too far and you were just not going to bother responding. I didn’t think I exceeded your boundaries, but I’ve known LessWongers to conceal their true standards, in order to more fully detect “loonies” or “crackpots.”
There’s no sentence I can form (Understand style) that will stun you with sheer realization (rather than be more likely to convince you of lessened intelligence). This is primarily because building the framework for such realizations results in a level of understanding that makes the lone trigger assertion seem mundane by conceptual ambiance. That is, I predict that there is nothing I can say about my predictions of you that you will both recognize as accurate while also recognizing as extraordinary. I have one more primary prediction to make, but I’ll keep it to myself for the moment.
Yes, I expect whatever big conclusion you’re winding up to will prove either true & trivial, or surprising & false. (I am still a bit curious as to whether you’ll take the boring route or the crackpot route, although my curiosity is hardening into impatience.)