Louie comments on 'Life exists beyond 50' - Less Wrong

-11 Post author: hankx7787 14 January 2013 02:28PM

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Comment author: Louie 15 January 2013 11:11:15AM 2 points [-]

Yeah, don't be discouraged. LW is just like that sometimes. If you link to something with little or no commentary, it really needs to be directly about rationality itself or be using lots of LW-style rationality in the piece. This was a bit too mainstream to be appreciated widely here (even in discussion).

Glad to see you're posting though! You still in ATL and learning about FAI? I made a post you might like. :)

Comment author: hankx7787 15 January 2013 01:44:32PM *  -2 points [-]

LW needs just a generic link-submission area to give it some of that reddit functionality its missing. Maybe have a third area besides main and discussion which is just for reddit-style img/link submission...

I guess I should add, I assumed life extension and such as being entirely on-topic here. It's kind of an obvious, major interest to any rationalist. To those who have no idea what I'm talking about, go read HPMOR a couple more times or something, jesus.

Also, good list, thanks. I actually don't know anything about functional programming, I'm going to look that up today.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 January 2013 02:20:05PM 8 points [-]

LW needs just a generic link-submission area

The biweekly Open Thread works well for that sort of thing.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 15 January 2013 02:56:45PM 4 points [-]

It's kind of an obvious, major interest to any rationalist.

I'm wary of this conflation of rationality and a specific set of values. Rationality is a tool for achieving your values; it doesn't specify what your values should be.

Comment author: hankx7787 15 January 2013 03:00:24PM -1 points [-]

You're just going to blast away the entire epistemic half of rationality? :)

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 16 January 2013 06:57:54AM 3 points [-]

LW needs just a generic link-submission area to give it some of that reddit functionality its missing.

Is making LW more like Reddit a good idea? What if it actually becomes more like Reddit?