Yvain comments on Open Thread, May 4 - May 10, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 07 May 2015 10:25:03AM 15 points [-]

There was a discussion a little while back (I think in another open thread) about the game of looking at the titles of articles linked from the "Recent on rationality blogs" sidebar and guessing who wrote them. Usually this is pretty easy.

Right now, though, the top link in the list is "The Future is Filters", which seems like an obvious Robin Hanson title. But no! It's Scott, not Robin, and it's about "filter bubbles" rather than "great filters".

I wonder whether Scott is aware of the game and deliberately trying to tease...

Comment author: Yvain 10 May 2015 05:08:30AM *  3 points [-]

I liked the sound of "The Future Is Pipes" and saved that sentence structure in case I needed it.

Comment author: gjm 10 May 2015 09:20:25AM 1 point [-]

Gotcha!