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To avoid repeating myself I will just say here that I’ve downvoted multiple replies of yours for hostility. Stating a preference for text isn’t an attack on you; misrepresenting people’s responses just comes off badly.
If the right thing to do is the consequentialist thing to do, and an outcome turns out bad, but it was still the best choice with the information one knew at the time, would that be consequentialism or virtue ethics?
edit: Ok, I completed the survey and just guessed. Would still like to know the answer though.
I believe that what he’s saying is that with power, people show their true colors. Consciously or not, nice people may have been nice because it benefitted them to. The fact that there were too many penalties for not being nice when they didn’t have as much power was a “corruption” of their behavior, in a sense. With the power they gained, the penalties didn’t matter enough compared to the benefits.
Hi.
Er, I have posted comments a few times, but I still consider myself a lurker… Bah.
Isn’t that kind of missing the point of the question?
Er, I’m not new, but I assume this is for high schoolers regardless of how long they’ve been on here? That seems most convenient, at least.
16, junior
Eh, not really. Nothing focused.
Not a one, so far as I know.
My plan is to get a bachelor’s in computer science or the equivalent, save money by continuing to live with my mom, and then go to an art school.
No
What technology would a RPSOP require, and what exactly would a RPSOP do?
If you knew enough that you predicted your comment would be downvoted as it is, then you could’ve explained your reasons better in the first place.
I don’t think this post was well-written, at the least. I didn’t even understand the tl;dr?
tldr; Is the SIAI evidence-based or merely following a certain philosophy? I’m currently unable to judge if the Less Wrong community and the SIAI are updating on fictional evidence or if the propositions, i.e. the basis for the strong arguments for action that are proclaimed on this site, are based on fact.
I don’t see much precise expansion on this, except for MWI? There’s a sequence on it.
And that is my problem. Given my current educational background and knowledge I cannot differentiate LW between a consistent internal logic, i.e. imagination or fiction and something which is sufficiently based on empirical criticism to provide a firm substantiation of the strong arguments for action that are proclaimed on this site.
Have you read the sequences?
As for why there aren’t more people supporting SIAI, first of all, it’s not widely known, second of all, it’s liable to be dismissed on first impressions. Not many have examined the SIAI. Also, only (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion#cite_ref-49)[4% of the general public in the US believe in neither a god nor a higher power]. The majority isn’t always right.
I don’t understand why this post has upvotes. It was unclear and seems topics went unresearched. The usefulness of donating to the SIAI has been discussed before, I think someone probably would’ve posted a link if asked in the open thread.
IMO he’s not all emo about it. He is also aware of his feeling guilty about it and agrees with Neville when he says he’s silly. And correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t recall him feeling proud of it.
I personally think that “Girl with a Heart of” sounds intriguing because I assume it has story relevance and it sounds like it might be an interesting story.
Interdependency: Each post in a sequence requires understanding of the previous posts in that sequence, and sometimes posts from earlier sequences. As well as being a source of intimidating and annoying tab explosions, this exacerbates the problem of length. It’s hard to read the sequences except going through large chunks systematically, so they can’t be broken up and read in a person’s spare time.
Couldn’t one just start from the beginning?
Not in response to anyone, but to this thread/topic.
Is this really something that should be on LessWrong? LessWrong is more about debate on new territory and rationality and such, not going to well-tread territory. There are many other places on the internet for debate on religion, but there’s only one LW. Perhaps /r/atheism, (maybe being careful to say that you’re honestly looking to challenge your beliefs and not test your faith.)
Unless there are new points that haven’t been heard before, or people are genuinely interested in this specific debate.
Just not sure this is the right place, and want to hear other people’s opinions on this.
Chapter one, when Petunia is talking about how she wanted Lily to use magic to make her prettier:
“And Lily would tell me no, and make up the most ridiculous excuses, like the world would end if she were nice to her sister, or a centaur told her not to - the most ridiculous things, and I hated her for it. And when I had just graduated, I was going out with this boy, Vernon Dursley, he was also fat and he was the only boy who would talk to me in college. And he said he wanted children, and that his first son would be named Dudley. And I thought to myself, what kind of parent names their child Dudley Dursley? It was like I saw my whole future life stretching out in front of me, and I couldn’t stand it. And I wrote to my sister and told her that if she didn’t help me I’d rather just—”
Just excuses? Or...? Dun dun dun...
No.40 on Yahoo’s homepage- “Is aging a disease?”
Good point! When I asked her earlier she said she wanted to save the rainforest to stop global warming, but I don’t think she’s completely inflexible about this.
Would it be possible to see some of your art? Do you have a website, perhaps?
I’m not exactly sure what your explanation is. That transgenderism is status-seeking? In that case, I suppose I’d ask about the existence of transgender people pre-SJ...?
In any case, I disagree with your assessment of cis-ness as unconnected to any real thing (that is what you’re saying, no?). Hmm… maybe I’d put it akin to being a goth. Many non-goths would feel uncomfortable if suddenly they were forced to go about their lives clearly dressed as such. It communicates membership of a group they don’t identify with.
Does that clarify anything?
When I wasn’t exposed to more transgender people and viewpoints, I didn’t pay attention and connect the dots I had that pointed at my not being cis, since I’m non-binary with relatively mild dysphoria. So, I’m planning on getting top surgery in a year or two, and wouldn’t have if I hadn’t introspected and found myself to be not cis. This could be seen as being perfectly happy in the body I was born with until it became fashionable to be transgender, but the connotations are very different.
I’m Ellen, age 14, student, planning to major in molecular biology or something like that. I’m not set on it, though.
I think I was browsing wikipedia when I decided to google some related things. I think I found some libertarian or anarchist blog that then had a link to Overcoming Bias or Lesswrong. Or I might’ve seen the word transhumanism on the wiki page for libertarianism and googled it, with it eventually leading here somehow. My memory is fuzzy as it was pretty irrelevant to me.
I’m an atheist, and have been for a while, as is typical for this community. I wasn’t brought up religiously, so it was pretty much untheism that turned into atheism.
My rationalist roots… I’ve always wanted to be right, of course. Partly because I could make mistakes from being wrong, partly because I really, really hated looking stupid. Then I figured that I couldn’t know if I was right unless I listened to the other side, really listened, and was careful. (Not enough people do even this. People are crazy, the world is mad. Angst, angst.) I found lesswrong which has given me tools to much more effectively do this. w00t.
I’m really lazy. Curse you, akrasia!
It should be obvious how I came up with my username. Aren’t I original?
Some other hobbies I have are gaming and anime/manga. Amusingly enough, I barely ever watch any anime. The internet is very distracting.
Edit: Some of this stuff is outdated. I don’t plan to major in molecular biology, for one, and I don’t like how I wrote the rationalist roots part. Meh. I doubt anyone is going to see this, but I’m 16 now and plan to major in Computer Science.