I assume everyone has run across at least one of the "Shit X's Say" format of videos? Such as Shit Skeptics Say. When done right it totally triggers the in-group warm-fuzzies. (Not to be confused with the nearly-identically formatted "Shit X's Say to Y's" which is mainly a way for Y's to complain about X's).
What sort of things do Rationalists often say that triggers this sort of in-group recognition which could be popped into a short video? A few I can think of...
You should sign up for cryonics. I want to see you in the future.
…intelligence explosion…
What’s your confidence interval?
You know what they say: one man’s Modus Ponens is another man’s Modus Tollens
This may sound a bit crazy right now, but hear me out…
What are your priors?
When the singularity comes that won’t be a problem anymore.
I like to think I’d do that, but I don’t fully trust myself. I am running on corrupted hardware after all.
I want to be with you, and I don’t foresee that changing in the near future.
…Bayesian statistics…
So Omega appears in front of you…
What would you say the probability of that event is, if your beliefs are true?
Others?
"We need whiteboards."
"I'm trying paleo."
"I might write rationalist fanfiction of that."
"That's just an applause light." ("That's just a semantic stopsign." "That's just the teacher's password.")
"POLITICS IS THE MINDKILLER"
"If keeping my current job has higher expected utility than founding a startup, I wish to believe that keeping my current job has higher expected utility than founding a startup..."
"I think he's just being metacontrarian."
"Arguments are soldiers!"
"Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is a change."
"There are no ontologically basic mental entities!"
"I'm an aspiring rationalist."
"Fun Theory!"
"The map is not the territory."
"Let's beware evaporative cooling, here."
"It's a sunk cost! Abandon it!"
"ERROR: POSTULATION OF GROUP SELECTION DETECTED"
"If you measure it and reward the measurement going up, you'll get what you measure, not what you want."
"Azahoth!"
"Death is bad."
This is too much fuuuuuuuun
"She's just signaling virtue."
"Money is the unit of caring."
"One-box!"
"Beliefs should constrain anticipations."
"Existential risk..."
"I'll cooperate if and only if the other person will cooperate if and only if I cooperate."
"I'm going to update on that."
"Tsuyoku naritai!"
"My utility function includes a term for the fulfillment of your utility function."
"Yeah, it's objective, but it's subjectively objective."
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