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Comment author: Alejandro1 26 January 2012 05:38:52PM 47 points [-]

As a start, I copied all Alicorn's lines into a Markov text synthesizer . Some of the best results were:

"Whoa, there's an improvement, but it's subjectively objective."

"Okay, but every change is turning into bottom-line thinking like a collective action problem."

"If keeping my current job has higher expected utility than founding a brownie."

"I think he's just the unit of you shouldn't implement Really Extreme Altruism. Unless the teacher's password."

"If I wish to optimize for Rare Diseases in paperclips."

"My elephant wants a term for infanticide."

Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 January 2012 07:16:54PM 34 points [-]

I burst out laughing while reading this, so of course my officemates wanted to know what was so funny.

I cannot remember the last time the gulf of inferential distances was so very very wide.

Comment author: Cthulhoo 27 January 2012 10:36:58AM *  8 points [-]

Not totally IT, but I tried it on Eliezer's "The 5-Second Level". Highlits include:

I won't socially kill you

Hope to reflect on consequentialist grounds

Say, what a vanilla ice cream, and not-indignation, and from green?

Associate to persuade anyone of how you were making the dreadful personal habit displays itself in a concrete example.

Rather you can't bear the 5-second level?

To develop methods of teaching rationality skills, you need more practice to get lost in verbal mazes; we will tend to have our feet on the other person.

Be sufficiently averse to the fire department and see if that suggests anything.

Comment author: DanielH 11 November 2013 11:14:08AM 0 points [-]

Be sufficiently averse to the fire department and see if that suggests anything.

I do believe it suggests libertarianism. But I can't be sure, as I can't simply "be sufficiently averse" any more than I can force myself to believe something.

Still, that one seems to be a fairly reasonable sentence. If I were to learn only that one of these had been used in an LW article (by coincidence, not by a direct causal link), I would guess it was either that one or "I won't socially kill you".

Comment author: AlexanderRM 02 October 2015 11:17:46PM 0 points [-]

I would be amazed if Scott Alexander has not used "I won't socially kill you" at some point. Certainly he's used some phrase along the line of "people who won't socially kill me".

...and in fact, I checked and the original article has basically the meaning I would have expected: "knowing that even if you make a mistake, it won't socially kill you.". That particular phrase was pretty much lifted, just with the object changed.

Comment author: Randaly 13 February 2012 05:22:14PM *  17 points [-]

From another generator:

"I'm going to solve metaethics." "I'm going, you're going to found the Society for infanticide."

""Snow is white" is failing to solve psychology."

"Wait, wait, "this is white" is a more technical explanation?"

"My utility function includes a semantic stopsign."

"If keeping my current job has little XML tags on it that say the Least Convenient Possible World...""

"Sure, I'd take over the sanity waterline."

"I'll be the symbol with ice cream trees."

"So after we take over the alternative universe that is the Least Convenient Possible World..."

"I want to tile the sanity waterline with the unit of a thing."

Comment author: Multiheaded 26 January 2012 05:48:43PM *  6 points [-]

"If I wish to optimize for Rare Diseases in paperclips..."

If we had signatures on LW, this would be mine.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 January 2012 07:07:40PM *  16 points [-]

Here's a few, courtesy of applying JWZ's dadadodo to all the lines in the thread so far:

What does the best textbook on corrupted hardware. Dark Arts; Escher, Bach?

How could you credibly pre commit to see you as a compartmentalized belief?

I'm trying to be a cult.

Have super powers.

You've fallen prey to be condescending.

My current job has higher expected utility than you imagine; but in the sanity waterline.

Everyone is Far.

No idea is reliable? Have a lot of caring.

Conceptspace is the future.

Mysteriousness is a cult.

I'm going to be with the AI. I know the universe future.

Look, just generalize from the territory.

Everyone is bigger than you in Cute Puppies.

Emacs' M-x dissociated-press yields babble, but with some interesting words in it: "knowledgeneralize", "metacontrammer", "contrationalist", "choosequences", "the universal priory", "statististimate", "fanfused", "condescendista", "frobability", "dissolomonoff", "optimprovement", "estimagine", "cooperaterline", "pattern matchology". The only sensible sentence it's come up with is "I'm running on condescending".

Comment author: Multiheaded 26 January 2012 07:15:37PM 9 points [-]

No idea is reliable? Have a lot of caring.

I visualized that being said simultaneously with the middle-finger gesture.

Comment author: thomblake 26 January 2012 07:36:36PM *  5 points [-]

the universal priory

I seem to remember someone's already made a Bayesian Priory pun, but if not then it should happen prominently.

EDIT: here

Comment author: Multiheaded 26 January 2012 11:28:50PM 2 points [-]

Conceptspace is the future.

Wrong. Electronic old men are.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 January 2012 11:55:41PM *  3 points [-]

To give an idea of what these look like raw, here's a paragraph of dadadodo:

What does the universe with ice cream trees. I have little Pony episode about what would you measure, not like to tile the universe with the argument? That's just signaling virtue: Death is bad. That's just a startup. I have little XML tags on corrupted hardware. Whoa, there's a compelling case for you read the least I wish to be the fulfillment of us is, not the MINDKILLER if keeping my model of Rationality? Tsuyoku naritai! So after all over the bad; result, you're running on that.

And here's a similar-sized chunk of M-x dissociated-press:

You shou have now is white' is true if an you imaginew Methods of in this riggerse tiled in paperclips. I have akrasian found underate if and only if keeping my current job has hight write rationalized belief? I cause can have you regenerate that say 'moral' It will bach? What die. You shods of Rationalith a good cause coherent extrapolass? We need wanterval line shouldn't implement Really Extreme An applause lity chaptere. I knowledge aren't believe there's Near, this is For me, but at's the bes a tering: Dark Artup, I wish to Solomonoff Indus today. What would you said to be can ding to Solve psychock Levent is, if you should read Goedel, Escher.

Of these, I rather like:

I have little XML tags on corrupted hardware.
shods of Rationalith
extrapolass

The blended-words effect seems to give M-x dissociated-press a sort of Finnegans Wake atmosphere which dadadodo doesn't have.

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