TheAncientGeek comments on Consider giving an explanation for your deletion this time around. "Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild" - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Will_Newsome 08 July 2014 02:53AM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 08 July 2014 03:26:45AM 6 points [-]

I don't get it.

(Is this an attempt at parodying and/or mocking HPMOR?)

Comment author: Will_Newsome 08 July 2014 03:31:03AM *  6 points [-]

It's the first chapter of an attempt to explicate the skills and virtues of postrationality. It also serves as parody but I'm not poking fun just for the sake of poking. I'm trying to halfway-communicate real ideas via adianoeta. Also I'm trying to learn how to write fiction, 'cuz I suck, as is apparent.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 08 July 2014 11:22:10AM 18 points [-]

Maybe you could communicate better by being less tricksy , not more.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 11 July 2014 03:31:20PM 1 point [-]
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Comment author: MrMind 08 July 2014 01:01:06PM 1 point [-]

In this method, are worthy people suppose to work to get some sense in what you say? Or they are supposed to get it instantly? Because in the first case, I'm not clear what are the incentives.

Comment author: Kawoomba 08 July 2014 01:49:34PM 0 points [-]

Solving riddles isn't its own incentive?

Comment author: MrMind 08 July 2014 02:03:51PM 5 points [-]

When you know for a fact that they are riddles, yes, for some. But to me until now Will failed to clearly show that.
Those who mistake noise for riddles are quite accurately termed schizophrenic.