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SaidAchmiz comments on Rationality Quotes April 2014 - LessWrong

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Comment author: SaidAchmiz 19 April 2014 06:57:53PM 2 points [-]

deathism not firewalled from rationalism

I second theruf's "what". The card reads like anti-deathism, not deathism. (Also, what the heck does "not firewalled from rationalism" mean?)

Comment author: Vulture 21 April 2014 08:01:12PM 1 point [-]

(Also, what the heck does "not firewalled from rationalism" mean?)

Sorry, I was being jargony. See Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational.

The card reads like anti-deathism, not deathism.

Quite right. Whoops. I'll go fix that now...

Comment author: SaidAchmiz 22 April 2014 02:09:13AM 3 points [-]

Sorry, I was being jargony.

Ah.

This is why I'm a big fan of the Yudkowskian practice of turning all instances of jargon in the text (or at least, the first appearance of any jargony term in a post) into a link to the relevant post/etc.