I (and any other casual visitor) now have only indirect evidence regarding whether eridu’s comments were really bad or were well-meaning attempts to share feminist insights into the subject, followed by understandable frustration as everything she^Whe said was quoted out of context (if not misquoted outright) and interpreted in the worst possible way.
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“Forbidden comparison fallacy”, maybe. Googling “forbidden comparison” turns up at least one example of it. It was called “Comparing Apples and Oranges” in this comment, but that seems less descriptive.
The comments on Reddit are worth reading:
Cognitive science is an oxymoron and who ever said the humanity is rational?
Also:
you know, not everything has to be reduced to effieciency and end results. humans and human society is still special even if some shut in bean counter thinks otherwise.
...yep, didn’t make it. I’ll have to get to the bank early tomorrow and hope the mail is slow.
Possibly related: Taking Ideas Seriously.
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.
People know Kindle DRM can currently be broken, right?
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”?
I like how everyone who links this talks about the immortality tangent and ignores the first two panels and “suicide is not legitimate”. You don’t want to live? Too bad, it’s your job! You’re not happy? You’re not trying hard enough! This mythological figure was happy, so you should be too! Depression is a choice!
As a low-status male, right now I’m less worried about being excluded from a meetup than I am about being publicly associated with LW at all. It already has a reputation (and not just for the things mentioned there); now it’s a place where a comment like Jade’s here isn’t just downvoted, but downvoted to a level that labels it a troll comment not worth replying to.
- 28 Oct 2012 8:50 UTC; 7 points) 's comment on The Problem With Rational Wiki by (
Somehow I doubt that “regardless of circumstance or outward sign” is their wording and not yours.
(Edit) Also, the converse of “not everything that is not expressly forbidden by a law is good” is “not everything that causes the slightest incidental harm is unforgivable babyeating evil”.
I find that kind of interesting, since my mom’s similar behavior comes off as extremely arrogant to me. Electronics and computer software of any kind are the Domain of Men, and any problems she has with them are our responsibility to solve, no matter how many thousands of hours she’s been using a particular system and no matter how unfamiliar it is to us. If you try to guide her toward figuring something out herself, she’ll eventually grin and throw up her hands and say “Confusing! Confusing!” and repeat the request just do it for her.
On further thought it’s not strictly about doing things for her, but when she wants to know how to do something she wants specific, step-by-step instructions without trying to explain why those steps work (doing that will immediately trigger “Confusing! Confusing!”); i.e. “How do I check text messages on this phone which I’ve been using for years and which has simple and clearly labeled menus?”.
...I’m probably using a thread as an excuse to vent again, but GIFT.
But he might benefit from having her think she’s blackmailing him.
(I wrote this before seeing timtyler’s post.)
If there is a rule that says ‘optimize X for X seconds’ why would an AGI make a difference between ‘optimize X’ and ‘for X seconds’?
I does seem like you misinterpreted the argument, but one possible failure there is if the most effective way to maximize paperclips within the time period is to build paperclip-making Von Neumann machines. If it designs the machines from scratch, it won’t build a time limit into them because that won’t increase the production of paperclips within the period of time it cares about.
Here, of course.
Ended up making the transfer over the phone.
Huh. Worked fine for me using files from a previously existing setup of Kindle for PC under Windows XP.
Which conversation ends in a fight? Which conversation ends in both people actually feeling more at ease?
They don’t sound meaningfully different to me; you’re saying the same thing, just less emotively and more casually.
I saw someone recently suggest saying (in a sympathetic tone) “What are you planning to do?”. (Possibly preceded by something like “Yeah, I can understand why you would be”.) I wouldn’t expect good results from it in real life, but I like it anyway (and it might be better than some alternatives).
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.