Monthly Bragging Thread July 2015

elharo

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to comment on this thread explaining the most awesome thing you've done this month. You may be as blatantly proud of yourself as you feel. You may unabashedly consider yourself the coolest freaking person ever because of that awesome thing you're dying to tell everyone about. This is the place to do just that.

Remember, however, that this isn't any kind of progress thread. Nor is it any kind of proposal thread. This thread is solely for people to talk about the awesome things they have done. Not "will do". Not "are working on". Have already done. This is to cultivate an environment of object level productivity rather than meta-productivity methods.

So, what's the coolest thing you've done this month?

I can imagine lots of reasons that you might observe something like that.

Discussing x-risks pattern matches to appearing responsible, and discussing very long-term fun maximization pattern matches to fantasizing, and appearing responsible is higher status than appearing to fantasize.
Discussing x-risks is more important/higher impact than discussing fun maximization.
People who think about both x-risks and fun maximization believe that discussing fun maximization proximally to x-risks completes the transhumanism-as-religion pattern, so discussion of fun maximization is observed less frequently than discussion of x-risks. (Alternatively, people are conserving their weirdness points. That would probably be the best way to describe it elsewhere but not here.)
Different epistemic origins. I imagine that a lot of LW users come to rationalism through Traditional Rationality as students or professionals. I'm young and I cut my teeth on Robert Freitas's work. I've had the transhumanist inside view for a long time and don't remember what it's like to think about transhumanism or the future solely in terms of imprecise, surface-level generalizations.
Robin Hanson would probably argue that people have extreme ideas about the future, and that it goes both ways and you're just reversing the stupidity. (I would disagree.)

Robin Hanson would probably argue that people have extreme ideas about the future, and that it goes both ways and you're just reversing the stupidity. (I would disagree.)

I don't understand?

Different epistemic origins. I imagine that a lot of LW users come to rationalism through Traditional Rationality as students or professionals. I'm young and I cut my teeth on Robert Freitas's work. I've had the transhumanist inside view for a long time and don't remember what it's like to think about transhumanism or the future solely in terms of imprecise, surface

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