Death comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Death 07 September 2010 06:27:11PM 31 points [-]

DEMENTORS REALLY ONLY REPRESENT AN EXTREMIST FRINGE OF MODERN MORTALIST THOUGHT.

I FEEL LIKE ELIEZER IS FAILING TO ENGAGE WITH MORE SOPHISTICATED PRO-DEATH THINKERS. FRANKLY, HIS IGNORANCE OF THANATOLOGICAL APOLOGETICS IS STAGGERING.

Comment author: gwern 12 October 2010 06:19:51PM 3 points [-]

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Comment author: jimrandomh 07 September 2010 06:36:35PM 2 points [-]

Please don't use all-caps; it makes your comment harder to read and it's considered shouting.

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about everlasting paperclips? Do you feel that all paperclips must eventually be destroyed, or do you limit the scope of your deathism to living things?

Comment author: Death 07 September 2010 06:44:07PM 24 points [-]

MY DUTY - sorry, my duty is toward living things only. i would prefer to leave your question on paperclips for my friend Oxidation, but he has trouble using computers. it's the wires, you see.

Comment author: Raw_Power 08 October 2010 10:22:54AM *  1 point [-]

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT YOUR MORE SOPHISTICATED DEATHISTS.

Why don't they have Asscaps in this wiki/blog/forum?

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 08 October 2010 01:18:31PM 3 points [-]

Why don't they have Asscaps in this wiki/blog/forum?

Yᴏᴜ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ ᴘᴀɴᴇʟ ᴀɴᴅ ᴇɴᴀʙʟᴇ ᴀᴜɢᴍᴇɴᴛᴇᴅ ᴍᴀʀᴋᴜᴘ.

Comment author: arundelo 08 October 2010 03:01:03PM 2 points [-]

It's a trap!

Comment author: Raw_Power 09 October 2010 07:24:04PM -2 points [-]

Why did I get downvoted ;_;

Comment author: Pavitra 09 October 2010 07:39:43PM -1 points [-]

lol spidey i dunno

Comment author: wedrifid 09 October 2010 10:50:38PM *  1 point [-]

Iɴᴛᴇʀᴇsᴛɪɴɢ

I assume you just copy and pasted characters into the comment box from another source? I just played 'newspaper ransom note' and used the letters you used and that seems to work fine. The weird symbol you have for an 's' I replaced with the lower case - which is conveniently the same as a small capital.

Edit: Yup. I downloaded BabelPad and can now insert 'ᴋ'. It looks like the unicode section called "Latin Extended-D" (Starting at &#A720) that you used for S and F doesn't display correctly. The &#x1D00 area does.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 10 October 2010 07:15:24AM *  1 point [-]

I assume you just copy and pasted characters into the comment box from another source?

I got bored of doing that and just put my text through

def sc(x): return unicode(x).translate(dict([(ord('a') + i, c) for i, c in enumerate(u"ᴀʙᴄᴅᴇꜰɢʜɪᴊᴋʟᴍɴᴏᴘ-ʀꜱᴛᴜᴠᴡxʏᴢ")]))

Comment author: DanielH 17 October 2013 08:05:37AM 1 point [-]

I find it odd that Unicode doesn't have a Latin Letter Small Capital Q but does have all the others.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 19 October 2013 04:25:39AM 1 point [-]

Iᴛ ɪꜱ ǫᴜɪᴛᴇ ᴏᴅᴅ, ʏᴇꜱ.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2013 04:49:27AM 0 points [-]

Why oh why does unicode do fonts?

Comment author: dclayh 07 September 2010 06:43:36PM 16 points [-]

I believe D. is imitating the style of Terry Pratchett, who uses small-caps for his "Death" character. The full-size caps are a bit annoying, I agree.