Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality quotes: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2010 07:23:37PM 1 point [-]

I hope that's not a spoiler, because I haven't read that story. If it is, please delete it or ROT13 it right now and don't do it again.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 March 2010 08:52:17PM *  2 points [-]

It isn't, at least, not in the sense of being a story whose punchline is "...naq vg jnf nyy n fvzhyngvba". You would already be foreseeing what Roko has mentioned by the end of the second screenful (and crying out, "Ab! Ab! Lbh znq sbbyf, unir V gnhtug lbh abguvat?").

Comment author: AllanCrossman 01 March 2010 08:58:03PM 5 points [-]

Reading through it now. There are two relevant words in Roko's description, only one of which is obvious from the outset.

Still I'm not sure I fully agree with LW's spoiler policy. I wouldn't be reading this piece at all if not for Roko's description of it. When the spoiler is that the text is relevant to an issue that's actually discussed on Less Wrong (rather than mere story details, e.g. C3PO is R2D2's father) then telling people about the spoiler is necessary...

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2010 09:03:31PM 1 point [-]

So rot13?

Comment author: AllanCrossman 01 March 2010 09:28:14PM *  2 points [-]

I suppose. The comment could be:

"Also Crystal nights is a good story about a topic of some interest to the futurist/transhumanist element on LW, namely rfpncr sebz n fvzhyngvba."