katydee

The Zeroth Skillset

• katydee 28 Dec 2013 22:37 UTC

  57 points

  on: Why CFAR?

  Excellent post, I’ve just sent in $200.

• katydee 10 Dec 2010 11:10 UTC

  56 points

  on: How To Lose 100 Karma In 6 Hours—What Just Happened

  At this point I must conclude either that you have no grasp whatsoever of the math involved here or that you’re completely insane. Assuming your claim is correct (which I sincerely doubt), you just killed ~6,790 people (on average) because someone deleted a blog post. If you believe that this is a commensurate and appropriate response, I’m not sure what to say to you.

  Honestly, if you believe that attempting to increase the chance that mankind is destroyed is a good response to anything and are willing to brag about it in public, I think something is very clearly wrong.

  What links here?

  • waitingforgodel's comment on How To Lose 100 Karma In 6 Hours—What Just Happened by waitingforgodel (11 Dec 2010 5:57 UTC; 4 points)

Sugges­tion: Read Paul Graham

A Day Without Defaults

• katydee 7 Sep 2012 2:15 UTC

  49 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Septem­ber 2012

  If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

  Solzhenitsyn

  What links here?

  • Said Achmiz's comment on Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2013 by Vaniver (2 Aug 2013 17:32 UTC; 4 points)
  • Vaniver's comment on Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes April 2014 by elharo (18 Apr 2014 16:04 UTC; 3 points)

Mak­ing Fun of Things is Easy

Don’t Build Fal­lout Shelters

• katydee 2 Sep 2012 21:01 UTC

  44 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Septem­ber 2012

  Lady Average may not be as good-looking as Lady Luck, but she sure as hell comes around more often.

  Anonymous

Skills and Antiskills

Don’t Get Offended

A Call for Con­stant Vigilance

The Prob­lem of “Win-More”

• katydee 1 Jan 2013 13:37 UTC

  36 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Jan­uary 2013

  The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming’s all that dreamers do.

  --Rory Miller

• katydee 28 May 2011 1:30 UTC

  35 points

  in reply to: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s comment on: Teach­able Ra­tion­al­ity Skills

  Keep in mind that the current psychology literature indicates that cathartic release is actually undesirable—while catharsis might improve affect in the short term, this is largely because it represents giving in to one’s anger, and in the long run it actually makes you more likely to experience anger in the future.

  I therefore advise that, in the event that one needs to make a particularly important decision and is currently angry, cathartic screaming may be effective, but its use should be restricted only for cases where it is strictly necessary.

  (and this is coming from the ex-leader of a cathartic screaming club :P)

  What links here?

  • Re­main­ing human by tel (31 May 2011 16:42 UTC; 0 points)

• katydee 16 Dec 2010 17:33 UTC

  34 points

  in reply to: Isaac’s comment on: Con­fi­dence lev­els in­side and out­side an argument

  I take more issue with the people who incredulously shout “That’s impossible!” after witnessing x.

• katydee 28 Jan 2012 3:59 UTC

  30 points

  on: Help! Name sug­ges­tions needed for Ra­tion­al­ity-Inst!

  The Human Rationality Project.

Epistemic and In­stru­men­tal Tradeoffs

• katydee 5 Jul 2013 20:10 UTC

  29 points

  in reply to: JoachimSchipper’s comment on: How I Be­came More Ambitious

  If this is in fact un-LW-ian, it shouldn’t be. :)

• katydee 11 May 2012 11:09 UTC

  29 points

  in reply to: Aurini’s comment on: [Er­ror com­mu­ni­cat­ing with LW2 server]

  Yes. I’m not going to watch a 20 minute video about anything unless it is highly regarded or I think there are compelling reasons for me to watch it, since I can read the transcript of a 20 minute video in 1-2 minutes and most people are incompetent at leveraging the strengths of video to make watching a video more worthwhile than reading text.