Looking over snarles’s submission history, there is a precedent for such a blank submission.
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If you enjoy this sort of thing, I recommend the site Paleo-Future. I find reading detailed predictions from over 100 years ago to be particularly surreal and interesting, such as the this Ladies Home Journal article (if you have trouble reading the picture, see the text here instead).
Since I participate in a lot of online discussions, three posts that are often in my mind are Politics is the Mind-Killer, Taboo Your Words, and Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences). The taboo gives me a useful technique for eliminating confusion and semantic debates, and focusing on the actual difference between the models of reality held by the participants (found by looking at the different experiences anticipated by them). Knowledge of the mind-killer is harder to use, but I can at least refrain from introducing politics when I want a discussion to remain productive.
I would totally read this, if for no other reason than because I have always had an interest in fiction created by non-human minds. And also because the idea of Clippy writing MacGyver fanfiction strikes me as adorable for some reason.
I, too, have been trying to collect whatever AN’s I could, along with the little description blurbs. My version is a bit messy, though.
The usual handwave by people discussing Rowling’s canon is that any missing family members were probably casualties of the civil war against Voldemort, I think.
Let’s not respond to bad comments with cached slogans.
Actually, let’s not respond to bad comments at all.
Sub-reddits strike me as unlikely to work well with a community of LW’s size and activity; I can already imagine the deserted areas whose last thread was made 6 months ago. The discussion area seems to be working well.
On the other hand, I’m not sure tags are performing their full potential as organizational aids, with people forgetting them and different words and conjugations for the same concept and all. Having a modest selection of recommended or enforced tags might help (if enforced, there being an “other” option for anything that doesn’t fit).
It’s a rather widespread phrase.
There is no chin behind Eliezer Yudkowsky’s beard. There is only another brain.
I remember seeing advice regarding the SAT and AP exams that recommended guessing when eliminating either one or two responses. Almost nobody seemed to know the theory behind it, which I guess is why both options sounded perfectly plausible. I was horrified when my AP Lit teacher recommended to the class guessing only if 2 or more responses could be eliminated, and couldn’t understand the math I did to show otherwise and wondered how such a thing was possible then there was a “penalty” for guessing (yes, she actually based her understanding of the situation on the name given rather than on doing any logical analysis; Orwell was surely rolling in his grave). Thankfully, she decided to trust me anyways.
Look, maybe this would help: are you guys familiar with p-zombies? Let’s say that I define myself to become a p-zombie if I measure a quantum spin to be up.
I get what you mean (that this approach to problem solving relies on an odd definition of who “you” are), but I think using the term “p-zombie” here is unnecessarily confusing. A p-zombie is supposed to be a being who is identical to a human being in every physical way yet lacks qualia/consciousness. So when I read your post my immediate reaction was “Wait, what? How do you define yourself to become a p-zombie?”
Also, Clippy is a user roleplaying as a paperclip-maximizing AI. Don’t take his suggestions of suicide too seriously.
Readability is also a Firefox Add-On, for those who prefer to deal with it on that basis.
Though, personally, I agree with Maddox; light text on dark backgrounds is awesome!
This is true, but I don’t think the Sequences need to teach what has already been covered to a sufficient degree of detail in the text. I can, for instance, vouch that Occlumency is taught well enough by the fic alone; since I read chapter 27, no-one has been able to read my mind! And I think I got the theory for conjuring a Patronous v2.0 down, too; as soon as I get a magic wand, I can put that to the test and see if it works.
I want to respond to that, but I am too amused by the idea of LW actually being composed of a bunch of AIs roleplaying as humans. That would certainly explain some things...
That gives me an interesting idea for a sci-fi plot… The world’s first AI good enough to pass the Turing test is not developed by academic researchers, but by advertisers trying to avoid forum/e-mail detection mechanisms. And it turns out that the hero’s online friend is one of these, which is the secret he has been hiding most of the novel.
One of the things that I like about LW is that I often get good story concepts out of it.
Google Translate? Assuming there was a digital copy, anyways.
I think you are unlikely to find a place where the waterline is significantly higher than elsewhere; the original post introducing the term made the point that the waterline must be depressingly low even across science for a theist to win a Nobel prize. A dedicated community like Lesswrong is about the only place where you can find that kind of thing, and last time I checked we haven’t established a utopian rationalist commune in the real world yet (though I see the idea has come up before; amusingly enough).
As for places where there is a higher proportion of LW-level or above people than in other locations, it seems to me that, in the absence of explicit rationalist training for their people, locations with a high proportion of intelligent beings who are trained in empiricism and the use of mental models of reality (e.g. polytechnic university towns) would be promising starts. Another, more direct approach would be to see where LW members live, and either try to spot some trend or move to an area where they seem unusually concentrated. Do we have one of those Google map thingies where people of a community can post their locations? If not, we should. It would probably help with all those meet-up events, too.
Sounds like someone’s beliefs aren’t paying rent.