Craig_Heldreth comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Craig_Heldreth 13 July 2013 09:54:49PM *  1 point [-]

Are there good reasons why when I do a google search on (Leary site:lesswrong.com) it comes up nearly empty? His ethos consisted of S.M.I**2.L.E, i.e. Space Migration + Intelligence Increase + Life Extension which seems like it should be right up your alley to me. His books are not well-organized; his live presentations and tapes had some wide appeal.

Comment author: Manfred 13 July 2013 10:46:12PM 11 points [-]

Write up a discussion post with an overview of what you think we'd find novel :)

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 July 2013 12:14:16AM 5 points [-]

I am generally surprised when people say things like "I am surprised that topic X has not come up in forum / thread Y yet." The set of all possible things forum / thread Y could be talking about is extremely large. It is not in fact surprising that at least one such topic X exists.

Comment author: KrisC 17 July 2013 11:59:54PM 1 point [-]

Leary won me over with those goals. I have adopted them as my own.

It's the 8 circuits and the rest of the mysticism I reject. Some of it rings true, some of it seems sloppy, but I doubt any of it is useful for this audience.

Comment author: timtyler 14 July 2013 11:59:30AM -1 points [-]

Are there good reasons why when I do a google search on (Leary site:lesswrong.com) it comes up nearly empty?

Probably an attempt to avoid association with druggie disreputables.