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Comment author: James_Miller 18 July 2014 05:52:26AM *  29 points [-]

Since LW is going to get a lot of visitors someone should put an old post that would make an excellent first impression in a prominent position. I nominate How to Be Happy.

Comment author: Costanza 18 July 2014 10:25:07PM *  2 points [-]

Let's check featured articles on the main page on 19 July 2014....and...there we go.

Comment author: Roxolan 19 July 2014 03:53:05PM 5 points [-]

"Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts" as a featured article. Wow, that's certainly one way to react to this kind of criticism.

(I approve.)

Comment author: Wei_Dai 20 July 2014 10:06:44AM *  9 points [-]

Re-reading that post, I came upon this entry, which seems particularly relevant:

We're all living in a figment of Eliezer Yudkowsky's imagination, which came into existence as he started contemplating the potential consequences of deleting a certain Less Wrong post.

Assuming we can trust the veracity of this "fact", I think we have to begin to doubt Eliezer's rationality. I mean, sure, the Streisand effect is a real thing, but causing Roko's obscure thought experiment to become the subject of the #1 recently most read article on Slate, just by censoring it? Is that really realistic?

...

Seriously, did anyone actually see something like this coming?

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