I think MileyCyrus meant it in the sense of the linked Yudkowsky essay, in which he gives atheistic hymns as an example. In other words, people like xkcd because of the applause lights and in-group signalling, not because of the quality. For what it's worth, I disagree, though I might describe some of the lower-quality xkcd strips this way.
I think MileyCyrus meant it in the sense of the linked Yudkowsky essay, in which he gives atheistic hymns as an example.
I used the same sense. It does not apply.
An episode of the Noddy animated series has the following plot.
Noddy needs to go pick up Martha Monkey at the station. But it's such a nice, sunny day that he would prefer to play around outside. He gets an idea to solve this dilemma. He casts a duplication spell on himself and his car and tells the duplicate to go fetch Martha while he goes out to play. Later, Noddy is out having fun when he suddenly spots his duplicate. It turns out that the duplicate also preferred playing outside to doing the errand so he also cast a duplication spell. Then they see another duplicate, and another...
I think this story makes for a nice simple illustration of one of our perennial decision theoretic issues: When making decisions you should take into account that agents identical to yourself will make the same decision in the same situation. A common real-life example of the Noddy problem is when we try to pawn off our dietary problems to our future selves.