wedrifid comments on Secrets of the eliminati - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 27 July 2011 08:11:17PM 7 points [-]

It's worth noting that none of my attempted ravings were anticipation-guiding (if I remember correctly; I tried to make all of them ontological). Thus it seems to me that they can only be crazy in the sense of being described using unmotivated language, or trying to load in lots of anticipations as connotations.

The one thing that most jumped out as a warning flag was:

I'm confused as to what you think was gibberish in my post, or what you mean by "gibberish".

A model of the world which did not expect your post to be considered nonsensical by most readers is a model of the world that has lost a critical connection with reality.

With respect to the post my impression was of a powerful mind which has come up with what may be a genuine insight but while writing the post is unable to keep on track for the sake of clear expression. The stream of consciousness is scattered and tangential. When I notice my communication tending in that direction I immediately put myself in debug mode. Because I know where that path leads.