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Comment author: Blueberry 13 December 2009 07:27:36AM 6 points [-]

Until about 2006 EY was working on papers like CEV and working on designs for FAI which he has now discarded as being wrong for the most part. He then went on a long period of blogging on Overcoming Bias and LessWrong and is now working on a book on rationality as his stated main focus. If this be accurate I would ask how does this make sense from someone who has made such a big deal about FAI, its importance, being first to make AI and ensure it is FAI?

I know! It's a Xanatos Gambit!

Comment author: wedrifid 13 December 2009 11:57:30AM *  6 points [-]

I know! It's a Xanatos Gambit!

You @#$@! I want those hours of my life back. Although I must admit Batman and his Crazy Prepared is kinda cool and I do love later series Wesley, seriously Badass. I was also tempted to create an account and add Althalus and Talen to the Divine Date page.

What is it about that site that is such a trap? We must anticipate a serious social payoff for engaging with stories and identifying the abstractions they represent.

I had been reading for half an hour before I even noticed I was on the TvTropes page and the warning sprung to mind.

Comment author: kpreid 13 December 2009 12:51:44PM 5 points [-]

Anyone want to write a LW post about (discussing) How To Be Less Unreasonably Attracted To TV Tropes And Other Such Sites? It's certainly a matter of rationality-considered-as-winning, since I've been losing somewhat as a result of wasting time on TV Tropes / Wikipedia / Everything2 / reading the archives of new-to-me webcomics.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 December 2009 01:08:24PM *  2 points [-]

Anyone want to write a LW post about (discussing) How To Be Less Unreasonably Attracted To TV Tropes And Other Such Sites?

I have had a lot of success with the LeechBlock plugin for firefox. It provides enough of a stimulus to trigger executive control. Unfortunately Chrome is just a whole lot faster than my Rigged-For-Web-Development Firefox these days and so I've lost that tool. I've actually been considering uninstalling chrome for more or less this reason.

Incidently, one of the sites I have blocked on Leechblock is Lesswrong.com. This habit kills far more time that tropes does. I then read the posts from the RSS feed but it block-reminds me of my self imposed policy when I try to click through to comment.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 December 2009 02:18:02PM 5 points [-]

The key to strategy is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.

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