| Post & message count |
Date |
Author |
Title or First Words |
| Rothbard's Bad Scholarship on Godwin and Popper (216) |
2020/08/10 |
curi |
so how do you like Heidegger? |
| Deplatforming and Fraud (196) |
2020/08/10 |
Periergo |
I see. That is indeed awful then. |
| Less Wrong Related Dicussion (14) |
2020/08/10 |
curi |
It's hard to get attention on LW because attention is mostly allocated by social dynamics but people don't admit that and will be hostile if you talk about it. But I don't want to social climb and they will mostly just blame my objective content quali |
| Open Discussion 2 (2019) (309) |
2020/08/10 |
curi |
Blizzard allegedly partially pays employees with in-game mounts and an honor points rewards program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anolmt8klyQ
[image] |
| Gamer MeToo Witch Hunt (3) |
2020/08/10 |
Oi |
They are recreating the cultural rules, that is the civil culture, ie political reason by demonstration
By staking the outrage, these micro-mutations, in many ways reflect the way dada pieced together pieces from EVERYTHING, into a single canvas
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| Social Dynamics Summary Notes (1) |
2020/08/10 |
curi |
Often there is plausible deniability socially but, at the same time, there *is not* plausible deniability from a perspective of using reason, logic, evidence, science, etc.
And vice versa. Often logically/rationally "I did not say or mean X" is ade |
| Exploring Gender as a Social Construct (23) |
2020/08/10 |
Periergo |
#17015 There are a lot of confounding variables to be sure. I don't yet think this necessarily means drugs do not work or there is no such thing as mental illness. There may be too many confounds for us to even possibly arrive at a correct answer.
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| Open Thread: Objectivism Discussion (144) |
2020/08/10 |
nikluk |
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF22Eo7J7d0&lc=UgyU327hOURrsnTrJOp4AaABAg
> [image]
I don’t know what Thomas Ott means by “not allowed to publish their opinions”. Does he mean in general? As commentary on ARI articles / posts (I don’t |
| Bottleneck Examples (2) |
2020/08/08 |
curi |
#17007 Yeah something like concentration, focus or mental energy is commonly more of a bottleneck than time.
A bigger issue is figuring out a good approach. Having a lot of resources (mental and otherwise) won't help much if you're following a bad |
| Asking Good Questions (9) |
2020/08/08 |
Periergo |
#17003 You have the mind of a jet engine. Very cool.
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| Alisa Discussion (125) |
2020/08/07 |
Anonymous |
> 28 out of 28 correct in 2 minutes 34 seconds, which is less than 2 seconds per question
double check your math |
| Asch Conformity Could Explain the Conjunction Fallacy (3) |
2020/08/06 |
Anonymous |
#16986 It's not just any college students, either. This sorta research more often is done at research oriented schools like UBC (where some Conjunction Fallacy research was done) with very selective admissions, not at community colleges or party schoo |
| Can Social Dynamics Explain Conjunction Fallacy Experimental Results? (6) |
2020/08/05 |
curi |
#16983 The standard timeline is roughly: You like programming and find it compatible with your way of thinking. You dabble in middle school. You take a few programming classes during high school and do a bit more hobby stuff too. (Being really into it |
| Algorithmic Animal Behavior (6) |
2020/08/04 |
Anonymous |
> This might be due primarily due to lack of selection pressure to evolve good software security systems
Has there *ever* been evolutionary pressure to evolve this?
ppl usually don't think that there's anything deep going on with birds that have |
| Reform Requires Reason (6) |
2020/08/04 |
Periergo |
#16956 omg this is horrifying. I wish I had not seen that. Poor man was terrified out of his mind and they killed him for it.
How much death and destruction has come from this, how much more to come?
Life is suffering. |
| Discussions Have Prerequisites (5) |
2020/08/04 |
max |
#16662 #16665
@Gavin: you can check the source code for like google analytics or similar things. GA doesn't give you the IP address but does show geolocation and "user journey" type stuff.
also since ET runs a server he presumably has something |
| Wearing An Israeli Flag (3) |
2020/08/04 |
max |
i wear [red nail polish on one nail](https://onerednail.com/) as a statement that philosophy and morality are important in daily life.
i was keeping count for a while and ~17 people have asked about it since March 2019; (more than 15, less than 20) |
| I Made New Videos (5) |
2020/08/03 |
Mikey |
Top Converter |
| Mario Odyssey Discussion (237) |
2020/08/03 |
sleepy idiot |
speedrunning session 13 |
| 12 Rules for Life Typos in Rule 1 (5) |
2020/08/02 |
Anonymous |
Rule 11 - P. 286
“The playgrounds were hastily removed, even though they were sufficiently safe, grandfathered re their insurability, and often paid for (and quite recently) by parents.”
Should be:
“grandfathered were ...” |
| DJ Khaled is Awful (6) |
2020/07/30 |
Youdeservetodie |
I hate you DJ KHALEB |
| Dennis Hackethal, Plagiarist (21) |
2020/07/28 |
Anonymous |
Hackenthal's book still on Amazon, in print and kindle editions, and with a 5 star review from Logan Chipkin. There is also a website for the book and Hackenthal is publishing articles referencing it:
https://medium.com/conjecture-magazine/the-neo- |
| Politics Discussion (178) |
2020/07/26 |
Anonymous |
https://kaus.substack.com/p/poor-mr-trump-just-president-nothing
Analysis of John Roberts opinion in DACA case
> Kausfiles Insaner — John Roberts’ Roach Motel: I've been struggling for a quick, weed-avoiding way to explain how awful Chief Ju |
| Less Wrong Comment Replies for Chains, Bottlenecks and Optimization (3) |
2020/07/25 |
nikluk |
#16921 Ok. Now it makes sense to me. Thx. |
| What To Read (81) |
2020/07/20 |
curi |
I read *Inadequate Equilibria* by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Pretty good.
I particularly liked ch. 3, Moloch's Toolbox, which is a lengthy dialog about what's wrong with the world. |