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Double-dipping to add: Calibre recommends not using PDFs as your source format if at all avoidable.
I feel like I should emphasize that it’s not just that the format is ill-suited to conversion, but that Calibre’s conversion routine for it is particularly poor; I quit using it when I noticed that the output was frequently truncated early.
Better conversion options:
The Amazon Send to Kindle application’s built-in conversion function
Opening in a PDF reader and copying and pasting into a word processor
Searching online for key text and seeing if you can find the document on a Web page; or, if you find the PDF online, saving Google’s HTML-converted cached copy
All of those could potentially mess up equations and the like, though; so you might just have to deal with it or get a bigger device.
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I would put this in the Map and Territory field. Or maybe it’s a belief paying rent? Maybe both.
Not sure what this means.
Eliezer has an account here and is a very prominent figure if you check out the sequences.
Hamish Sinclair has an account at Marathon’s Story Forum and is a very prominent figure if you check out the main site, but that didn’t stop him randomly switching to a new account as “Godot”. Is EY really so much less eccentric, and furthermore universally known to be by everyone but me?
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I made no claim that those are the only two possibilities.
On reflection, I see that you’re right; I inferred too much from your comment. What you said was that you’d be interested in an explanation of your error, if and only if you committed one; followed by asking the separate, largely independent question of whether Eugine/Azathoth/Ra/Lion was punishing you for not being right-wing enough again. I erroneously read your comment as saying that you’d be interested in (1) an explanation of your error or (2) the absence of such an explanation, which would prove the Eugine hypothesis by elimination. Sorry for jumping the gun and forcing you into a bunch of unnecessary analysis.
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I strongly disapprove, since it leads casual readers to believe that you’re Yudkowsky and/or some official representative of the website. But I have no authority, and nobody else seems to mind, so that’s as far as I can go.
I hesitate to ask this, because the fact that you’ve been posting for six months without it being asked suggests that I’m missing something obvious. But I’m feeling lazy.
Are you actually Less Wrong?
Thanks! Downloaded; I don’t know whether I’ll actually read it (it being apparently over 476,000 words), but it’s great to have.
Did you use the method RicardoFonseca described?
Any chance of a combined ebook version?
Anecdote: I haven’t received a PM reply from him since 2013.
I wonder if anyone suggested the Council for Understanding Logic and Technology.
Interesting. It sounds like “dodging” and “swallowing” are equally misused in Science Doesn’t Trust Your Rationality, but in different ways.
I would seriously nominate this as the largest bullet ever bitten
Why would anyone bite a bullet that large?
No, the drive to bite this bulletThis has bugged me for a while: is there a definition of “biting” or “dodging” a “bullet”? It seems to be used here in a way exactly opposite how I’ve seen it used elsewhere.
I guess technically it’s “too late” to give up on a dream if you’ve already accomplished it; but I’m not sure that’s how most people would read the statement.
Similar “problem”(?): Acausal trade with Azathoth
The last quote isn’t from Yudkowsky.
Is there a deadline?