It might be time to take this thread to TV Tropes.
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I was expecting the link to be Mundane Magic.
A clever god applying its cleverness to the job of making itself invisible is going to succeed.
Other possibilities: (6) It was a non-breathing imitation of a pig. (7) It was inside an invisible box isolating it from the surrounding air.
An AI that was a satisficer would’t be “the” AI; it’d be the first of many.
I was probably wrong in assuming I understood the discussion, in that case.
Possibly related: Taking Ideas Seriously.
That clarifies it for me. Possibly related: Beyond the Reach of God.
Part of the problem is that any attempt at direct enforcement or pressure could deter people from commenting in the first place, knowing that if they did they’d be expected to see any disagreements through to the end. (That’s been mentioned in previous threads, I think.)
Random thought: Would individuals trying to shift the norm by setting an example work any better? Like, one person going through their comment history (possibly using the link here), and making a list in their profile page of unresolved disagreements and their current status (possibly including otherwise unvoiced ones), plus a list of resolved disagreements and how they were resolved, or a list of posts and comments that led them to shift their beliefs (incrementally or otherwise) on something?
Not volunteering either way, though. In the past I’ve occasionally killed time reading my old posts on forums, and on reading regrettable things I’ve tried to fix them by amending them in replies or putting notes about them my profile, but that doesn’t seem like the same thing.
Basically, it seems you(general) would need to make a deliberate effort to continue discussions even after it becomes pure work, because you value having a site where disagreements are resolved more than you value anything else you might be doing with that time.
Edit: I idealistically hope that when agreement is impractical, people who try long enough can still reach a better level of understanding than the standard “agreement to disagree” cliché.
Read first comic, said to self “This is terrible” halfway through, didn’t read further. There may be room for improvement.
In a possibly bad decision, I put a $1000 check in the mailbox with the intent of going out and transferring the money to my checking account later today. That puts them at $123,700 using Silas’ count.
...yep, didn’t make it. I’ll have to get to the bank early tomorrow and hope the mail is slow.
Ended up making the transfer over the phone.
Here, of course.
Partway through, I had the urge to look up a past comment saying something like “I’ve seen philosophers argue, in apparently total sincerity, whether a man in a desert seeing a mirage of a lake that coincidentally has a lake just beyond it “really” knows the lake is there”.
Unfortunately I can’t find it now; it probably either didn’t use the exact word “mirage”, used another metaphor entirely, or was actually on OB. Searching “mirage” brought up a similar metaphor in Righting a Wrong Question, but that’s making a different point.
I’ve never been into science fiction, fantasy literature, anime, or D&D, but the alleged popularity of those on LW has never bothered me, nor even particularly stood out. (I mean, I’ve liked a few instances of the first three, but never anywhere near the point of being involved in their respective subcultures.)
You seem to be under the impression that a nerd is someone who pins a badge saying “nerd” on himself.
I know the above post only had one downvote, but just to check: Didn’t we already have a discussion on how signalling agreement with things is a normal part of healthy human interaction and cooperation, and that we don’t really want to suppress it for some mechanical standard of “high content” or “signal/noise”?
The nice thing about Eliezer’s stories is that they’re much harder to accidentally take as fictional evidence. They come off as obviously ridiculous, so there isn’t much danger that you’ll accidentally interpret those worlds as instructive of our own. Easy to use correctly; hard to use incorrectly.″
It’s an interesting thought, but I’m not sure I buy it as generally true; as long as the critical human-interaction parts work properly, I think I automatically believe moderately absurd fiction about as much as I do anything else. We believe plenty of things in the real world that are absurd by EEA standards.
Adding to that: I’d like to see it linked at the top rather than the bottom, possibly in a “Related posts:” line or something.