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Comment author: evand 10 June 2012 02:43:39AM 1 point [-]

This needs a lot more work before it's a great essay. Aha! So you clearly see the potential for greatness. ;)

I see rather a lot of typos and incomplete sentences.

Our is a paranoid brain

This jumped out at me. There were several others.

Putting aside such wild speculation, what should we take away from this? When trying to understand something which you can't model very well or don't understand the models others use. A topic that strains your cognitive resources. A topic that you think deserves more attention. Something with stuff going wrong. Something that is unpredictable. A model that would require much coordination to. When you see these thing don't think conspiracy.

This is filled with incomplete sentences.

Overall, I liked the ideas here, but the writing made them hard to follow. I'm also troubled by the lack of examples (see Douglas_Knight's comment below).

Comment author: [deleted] 10 June 2012 08:06:43AM *  1 point [-]

I see rather a lot of typos and incomplete sentences.

Please PM me so I can fix them! I've been very grateful to the proofreaders so far. :)

Our is a paranoid brain seeing agency in every shadow or strange sound.

By the time I read your comment this sentence was already complete. Are you sure you didn't misread it? I did several corrections and minor edits since posting the original article so maybe I fixed it and forgot about it.

This is filled with incomplete sentences.

That paragraph was originality one long sentence, after gwern's comment I broke it up to make it more readable. Would a list be better?

I'm also troubled by the lack of examples (see Douglas_Knight's comment below).

This was intended as a feature rather than a bug. But if many people are bothered by this maybe should make a follow up post that analyses several examples to see where they conform or not to the features described here.

Comment author: evand 10 June 2012 01:58:04PM 1 point [-]

Our is a paranoid brain seeing agency in every shadow or strange sound.

By the time I read your comment this sentence was already complete. Are you sure you didn't misread it? I did several corrections and minor edits since posting the original article so maybe I fixed it and forgot about it.

"Our" is incorrect here. It think you mean "ours".

Comment author: [deleted] 10 June 2012 02:04:51PM 0 points [-]

Ah! Fixed.

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