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TheOtherDave comments on Shit Rationalists Say? - Less Wrong Discussion

30 Post author: Eneasz 25 January 2012 09:51PM

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Comment author: Alejandro1 26 January 2012 05:38:52PM 47 points [-]

As a start, I copied all Alicorn's lines into a Markov text synthesizer . Some of the best results were:

"Whoa, there's an improvement, but it's subjectively objective."

"Okay, but every change is turning into bottom-line thinking like a collective action problem."

"If keeping my current job has higher expected utility than founding a brownie."

"I think he's just the unit of you shouldn't implement Really Extreme Altruism. Unless the teacher's password."

"If I wish to optimize for Rare Diseases in paperclips."

"My elephant wants a term for infanticide."

Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 January 2012 07:16:54PM 34 points [-]

I burst out laughing while reading this, so of course my officemates wanted to know what was so funny.

I cannot remember the last time the gulf of inferential distances was so very very wide.