Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong
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The following quotes were heavily upvoted, but then turned out to be made by a Will Newsome sockpuppet who edited the quote afterward. The original comments have been banned. The quotes are as follows:
— Aristosophy
— Aristosophy
If anyone objects to this policy response, please PM me so as to not feed the troll.
Edited how?
If I remember correctly the second quote was edited to be something along the lines of "will_newsome is awesome."
That is cute.. no? More childish than evil. He should just be warned that's trolling.
There really should be a comment edit history feature. Maybe it only activates once a comment reaches +10 karma.
Defection too far. Ban Will.
Will is a cute troll.
Hmm, after observing it a few times on various forums I'm starting to consider that having a known, benign resident troll might keep away more destructive ones. No idea how it works but it doesn't seem that far-fetched given all the strange territoriality-like phenomena occasionally encountered in the oddest places.
I've heard this claimed.
This behavior isn't cute.
This would be somewhat in fitting with findings in Cialdini. One defector kept around and visibly punished or otherwise looking low status is effective at preventing that kind of behavior. (If not Cialdini, then Greene. Probably both.)
I do find some of Will Newsome's contributions interesting. OTOH, this behaviour is pretty fucked up. (I was wondering how hard it would be to implement a software feature to show the edit history of comments.)
If only the converse were true...
"...if you lack a thousand-year-old brain that can make trillion-year plans, dying after a billion years doesn't sound sad to you"?
I'm confused as to what you're trying to say. Are you saying that dying after a billion years sounds sad to you?
"If you lack a thousand-year-old brain that can make trillion-year plans, it's because dying after a billion years doesn't sound sad to you."
I think meaning it's unfortunate that thinking that dying after a billion years is sad doesn't by itself give you the power to live that long. Maybe.
I was never one for formal logic, but isn't that the contrapositive? I was under the impression that the converse of p then q was q then p.
Yes and that's what nshepperd wrote.
Oh wow, never mind. My brain was temporarily broken. Is it considered bad etiquette here to retract incorrect comments?
When you retract the comment is simply struck-through not deleted, so no.
And therefore you would have a thousand-year-old brain that can make trillion-year plans.
Seems legit.