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Jack comments on Introduction: "Acrohumanity" - Less Wrong
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For those of you downvoting, assuming any of you are still seeing this page:
Please use this space as an opportunity to list your reasons why.
NMDV, but it is long-winded, coins unnecessary neologisms, and doesn't contain much of anything new to Less Wrong. There is something squicky about the tone, too.
(Nothing personal/you asked).
I did, and have upvoted you for your cooperation.
I am unfamiliar with this acronym. Elucidate me?
Point of order: what are you considering a neologism? The only term(s) I coined to my knowledge are acrohuman and its associated variations.
Is there any chance you could elaborate on this?
NMDV is "not my down vote". I didn't down vote you, I'm just guessing about those who did.
Thats the term I'm talking about.
With regard the squickiness, that's always hard to articulate. I think it has to do with using a really authoritative and academic tone without authoritative and academic content-- it sort of pattern matches to bad philosophy and pseudoscience.
Hrm. One of the things I've struggled with and why I bothered with it at all is that there really isn't, to my knowledge, already a term that encapsulates the meaning of "a person with an agenda of maximally optimizing his own experience of the human condition to within the limits of what is possible" or the state of being so "optimized." If I might ask -- why do you feel that it was unnecessary? Are you familiar with a term that already carries this meaning?
That's strange... I honestly thought I was doing the opposite of this; I was, I thought, careful to elaborate that I was solely relating my own opinion, with the intention of introducing the topics in question for dialectical examination by, well, all of you.