orthonormal comments on Minimum computation and data requirements for consciousness. - Less Wrong

-13 Post author: daedalus2u 23 August 2010 11:53PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 24 August 2010 05:56:55PM 10 points [-]

This is why it's strongly recommended to try out an article idea on the Open Thread first.

You owe it to your readers to have clearly organized and well-explained thoughts before writing a top-level post, and the best way to get there is to discuss your ideas with veterans first. If you say in advance that you want to write a top-level post, we'll respect that; I've never seen anyone here poach a post idea (though of course others may want to write their own ideas on the topic).

Comment author: thomblake 25 August 2010 03:13:17PM 0 points [-]

People are welcome to poach my ideas, as I have more of them than time to write.

Comment author: orthonormal 26 August 2010 06:10:40PM 0 points [-]

Right; I meant that people don't do so without permission.

Comment author: thomblake 26 August 2010 06:12:15PM -1 points [-]

Oh yes, I agree. I was just making a note of that since otherwise, given your observation, people will not poach my ideas; I would thus be decreasing the amount of good Lw posts by naming them!