Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 23 April 2012 01:30PM

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Comment author: SkyDK 23 April 2012 05:16:30PM 4 points [-]

How is that rational?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 April 2012 06:34:45PM 12 points [-]

It's not, but then LW group members can't be presumed rational. What sort of synchronized group movement or synchronized group voice or both would bypass the Cthulhulian-horror-of-conformity filters?

Comment author: HonoreDB 23 April 2012 07:00:43PM 14 points [-]

N-player rock-paper-scissors variants. They generally involve everybody standing in a circle facing inward shaking their fists three times and chanting in unison, and looking back I feel like they do have a community-building effect. But they bypass the filter because they're competitive, and are presumably appealing to LW people because they involve memorizing a large ruleset and then trying to game it.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 23 April 2012 08:09:33PM 9 points [-]

In a similar group of my acquaintance, DDR (Dance Dance Revolution, not the former East Germany) serves this role fairly well, albeit only pairwise.

I imagine yoga can work this way for people who don't also have a horror of the reference class they file yoga in.

Comment author: ciphergoth 24 April 2012 11:59:56AM 4 points [-]

How hard would it be to hack pydance to synchronize multiple computers? A few Raspberry Pis, a few monitors... mass DDR-off!

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 24 April 2012 01:37:01PM 8 points [-]

You wouldn't necessarily even need any hacking - just have lots of computers / dance mats side by side, and start the same song at the same time in all of them.

Which actually sounds rather awesome.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 24 April 2012 03:22:02PM 11 points [-]

You've just invented Geek Line Dancing.

Comment author: fiddlemath 04 May 2012 04:37:56AM 1 point [-]

Large-pattern juggling. Takes a lot of practice from everybody, though - well more than most social dance.

Comment author: Douglas_Reay 29 April 2012 09:02:05AM 1 point [-]

What sort of synchronized group movement or synchronized group voice or both would bypass the Cthulhulian-horror-of-conformity filters?

Something sufficiently geeky.

for example

Comment author: SkyDK 23 April 2012 06:43:57PM *  1 point [-]

I'd have a hard time presuming anyone to be completely rational. But I'd have an even harder time understanding why I shouldn't point that out to someone who (presumably; due to them being here and all) wants to be more rational.

About your second point: I'm probably a bad choice for identifying your conformity filters due to the rather big amount of time I've spent at salsa and tango courses. Time which takes gargantuan proportions when contrasted to the awfully little time I've spent in Cthulhulian sects.

Comment author: Mercurial 25 April 2012 04:48:05PM 0 points [-]

The minister's cat might play this role, although people do get kind of frustrated with it.