You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

wedrifid comments on Remaining human - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: tel 31 May 2011 04:42PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (37)
Tags: morality humanity teaching pedagogy interpretation communication

Comments (37)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: wedrifid 01 June 2011 12:55:04PM *  2 points [-]

The exciting thing about snowboarding isn't the challenge it's being able to do air time with little effort or at least I think so.

The appeal to me is based on engineering intuitions. Skis, seriously? Hook up a great big lever to apply torque to a single joint that is not intended to twist that way at all? Something seems wrong when I do that.

Comment author: Broggly 07 June 2011 03:43:14AM 3 points [-]

I'm not sure, but I think skis were designed for moving across mountainous terrain. I find the whole idea of "cross country snowboard" somewhat absurd, but have seen alpine troops chasing each other down on skis in WW2 documentaries.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit