dbaupp comments on Introduction: "Acrohumanity" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Logos01 26 October 2011 11:07:43AM 0 points [-]

But, what you did say was along the lines of "We can get better memory, so we can remember more rationalist things like biases and heuristics! Gee, wouldn't that be nice!". (It sounded like an applause light to me.)

I see. Where, exactly, are you getting the "Gee, wouldn't that be nice!" element from?

Comment author: dbaupp 26 October 2011 11:12:13AM *  1 point [-]

You didn't say why just remembering biases and heuristics would be all that useful.

EDIT: And this is where hyperlinks and the massive number of other articles of LW nicely work together.

Comment author: Logos01 26 October 2011 11:36:47AM 0 points [-]

You didn't say why just remembering biases and heuristics would be all that useful.

I see. Well, I can see that any future writings I submit anywhere will have to flesh that element out then. I had assumed the positive utility of easier recall ability for those categories of items would be obvious.

Comment author: dbaupp 26 October 2011 12:16:31PM 0 points [-]

I didn't say it wasn't obvious. I was meaning that it seemed like you tacked it on the end to superficially validate mnemotechnics by using LW "buzz words".

Comment author: Logos01 26 October 2011 01:05:00PM 1 point [-]

I was meaning that it seemed like you tacked it on the end to superficially validate mnemotechnics by using LW "buzz words".

I can definitively tell you that this impression is not valid. If I had meant to target the jargon/patois of the LessWrong community, it would have been obvious.

I included the ease of recollection of pre-developed heuristics and known cognitive biases as an example of how optimization approaches can be convergent. This was the sum of my intent.

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