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Alex_Altair comments on A rationalist My Little Pony fanfic - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: DataPacRat 10 August 2012 08:53PM

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Comment author: gwern 10 August 2012 10:13:54PM 15 points [-]

First impressions:

  • too heavy on LW shibboleths and hence too high an inferential distance (he's complaining about the absence of cryonics? How about statistics or math or logic or just materialism, first?).
  • The paraphrase of Eliezer's steel golem strategy is very clunky, and doesn't seem like it should impress Sparkle.
  • The udder passage could be funnier.

I'd comment on chapter 2, but the site just went down for maintenance. >.<

Comment author: Alex_Altair 10 August 2012 10:53:46PM -1 points [-]

shibboleths

West Wing?

Comment author: Manfred 11 August 2012 12:14:13AM *  0 points [-]

www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ashibboleth

Comment author: Alex_Altair 11 August 2012 01:03:19AM -1 points [-]