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Easy test: send a summary/bullet point/whatever as a private message to a few select people from LessWrong, and ask them for their reactions. Possible loss: a few select members become biased due to large inferential gap against the ideas that you gave up to pursue a more important goal. Possible gains: rational feedback to your ideas, supporters, and an estimate of the number of supporters you could gain by sharing your ideas more widely on this site.
I think you underestimate the potential loss. Worst case scenario one of the people he PMs his ideas to puts them online and spreads links around this site.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101
For what reason does Harry think Quirrell is applying false memory charms to everyone? What's wrong with what they saw?
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101
Tto whom is it indulgent? Harry, Eliezer, or the reader?
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I would say Eliezer. Introducing another event from the first year of school and subverting it utterly. Blatantly referencing Twilight AND My Little Pony (to the point of bending canon for its inclusion) AND a Methods or Rationality fanwork AND an obscure math program AND Several other cameos sprinkled throughout.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101
This isn't a particularly bad thing, but I must say, chapter 100 was perhaps the most self indulgent this story has had yet.
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Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8)
25% of the population suicided? I'm sorry, but that just seems...extremely unrealistic. Like it was tacked on to cement this as the bad ending.
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Interlude with the Confessor (4/8)
The Confessor's speech...so beautiful...if only our history could progress in such a way...
So, I recall coming across one of the fanfictions based off of Methods of Rationality, but I can't seem to find it anymore. Perhaps someone here is familiar with it? I only remember two things. 1: it included a battle between the three armies. 2: The battle had something to do with fire (it was mentioned that this was to complete the elemental trend the battles had been following; the forest battles representing earth, the battles high up in Hogwarts being air, and the underwater battle naturally being water).
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What do we already have right?
How common do the ideas need to be? Does the scientific method count?
Well, ideally some of the ideas would be non-obvious. I think the scientific method would count.
What do we already have right?
I was just wondering. Human minds are messed up in 1001 ways, but are there a few rational principles that most people already have down? Of course, the answers to this question are probably so extremely obvious that I haven't even considered them. But I ask all the same.
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You got me kinda scared. I just use Evernote or wordpress for all my important writing. That should be enough, right?
No.