This sort of far-mode thinking is usually [1] evidence of an attempt to signal not-”Straw Vulcan Rationality” while simultaneously earning warm fuzzies in those possible worlds in which [DELETED] (ed. Explaining the reason for this edit would either reveal excessive information about the deleted content or require mentioning of true ideas which are considered abhorrent by mainstream society.) and is ultimately the result of having a brain which evolved to have hypocritical akrasia regarding skepticism and to guess the teacher’s password [2].
[1] p(parent post is mere signalling | p-zombie Mary in a Chinese room would claim that “semantic stop-signs are red” is a map-territory-map-mapitory confusion) = .7863, but I may have performed an Aumann update with a counterfactual-me who generalized from fictional fictional-evidence.
I’m not sure if I should upvote this as an amusing parody of f Less Wrong posts or downvote because it seems to actually undermine the implicit claim that LW posts are full of jargon with little content- it doesn’t take much effort to see that the post really is nonsense. Overall, a mildly amusing but not terribly well-done parody.
This sort of far-mode thinking is usually [1] evidence of an attempt to signal not-”Straw Vulcan Rationality” while simultaneously earning warm fuzzies in those possible worlds in which [DELETED] (ed. Explaining the reason for this edit would either reveal excessive information about the deleted content or require mentioning of true ideas which are considered abhorrent by mainstream society.) and is ultimately the result of having a brain which evolved to have hypocritical akrasia regarding skepticism and to guess the teacher’s password [2].
[1] p(parent post is mere signalling | p-zombie Mary in a Chinese room would claim that “semantic stop-signs are red” is a map-territory-map-mapitory confusion) = .7863, but I may have performed an Aumann update with a counterfactual-me who generalized from fictional fictional-evidence.
[2] The password is Y355JE0AT15A0GNPHYG.
I think you mean Y355JE0AT15G00NPHYG.
(This comment is a thing of beauty.)
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I was attempting to parse that comment seriously at 8AM in the morning before drinking any coffee. Never again.
I’m not sure if I should upvote this as an amusing parody of f Less Wrong posts or downvote because it seems to actually undermine the implicit claim that LW posts are full of jargon with little content- it doesn’t take much effort to see that the post really is nonsense. Overall, a mildly amusing but not terribly well-done parody.