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ZankerH comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong
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Donate most of your disposable income to MIRI.
Selling the cat and donating the money to MIRI would kill two birds with one stone.
Interesting advice, but not useful in context.
Isn't it a joke? Not a very funny one, I have to say, but a joke. Person A posts something to LW that doesn't seem to have much relevance to LW. So person B replies with something comically-stereotypically LW that doesn't have much relevance to what A posted. There's a certain symmetry about it, and its irrelevance is also a way of saying "this doesn't belong here and so shouldn't be taken seriously". So I guess it's both a joke and a criticism.
There's more to life than project mayhem.
I don't think ZankerH was making a serious suggestion.
(Perhaps I've misunderstood your comment; I haven't seen Fight Club. If you weren't taking ZankerH's comment as an actual attempt to get CronoDAS to give money to MIRI then I think I've missed your point.)
Poe's law: people say creepy things on LW all the time.
Sure, but - if most LW users could tell that that was a joke, and you couldn't, then that says more about your understanding of the LW zeitgeist than it does about the LW zeitgeist.
(Of course, I mostly only assume most LWers could tell it was a joke, because I thought it was obviously a joke.)
Also: some things the "LW zeitgeist" considers a joke are not that funny (EY facts, etc.)
True enough. But not usually quite so irrelevantly as this one would be if ZankerH were seriously proposing it.
Btw, did you end up reading anything of mine? Shoot me an email if so.
Oh, crap, the next step was meant to be me sending you my email address and I failed to do that because I was trying to find yours and found it surprisingly difficult. I don't know how because when I just tried again it took maybe ten seconds. I'm sending you an email right now.