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Replying toOn the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

On the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

the tech support doesn't give a fuck, and will cite privacy concerns when you ask them for more direct access to the database

Seriously, who are these tech support people? Clearly this database belongs to the owner of less wrong (whoever that is). As far as I can tell, when moderators ask for data, they ask on behalf of the owners of that data. What is going on here? Has tech support gone rogue ? Why do they then get their contract renewed? Are they taking orders from some secret deep owners of LW that outrank the moderators ?

Replying toOn the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

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On the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

This is not going to happen unless you deal with the troll

Replying toMaking Less Wrong Great Again

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Making Less Wrong Great Again

I don't understand why this comment is downvoted and I want to go on record to say it wasn't me. I appreciate when people tell me why they downvote my posts.

I definitely did expect mixed reactions to the original post. I'll be honest and say that I'm surprised that people keep downvoting it to levels that I associate with malicious trolls, rather than let it stay hidden at -5 which seems appropriate for a failed attempt at humor. But it doesn't really matter, it would take much more than negative reactions to a joke to stop me from making Less Wrong great again :)

Making Less Wrong Great Again

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10y

Trump

Please post other Making Less Wrong Great Again memes in the comments

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Replying toSurvey: What's the most negative*plausible cryonics-works story that you know?

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Survey: What's the most negative*plausible cryonics-works story that you know?

Hi there, Mac. I'm a Matrix overlord. Can I have my 10 dollars, please?

Replying toLINK: An example of the Pink Flamingo, the obvious-yet-overlooked cousin of the Black Swan

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LINK: An example of the Pink Flamingo, the obvious-yet-overlooked cousin of the Black Swan

Could you specify whether you want answers as percentage probability, probabilities, odds, or expected number of launches? My answer was intended as a percentage

Replying toRobert Aumann on Judaism

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Robert Aumann on Judaism

So there is free money to be had by posing as a rabbi and offering a bet to Robert Aumann?

Replying toThe Mr. Hyde of Oxytocin

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The Mr. Hyde of Oxytocin

Using OxyContin(tm) for a job interview seems like a distinctly bad idea. Particularly if the employer asks for drug screening.. If you absolutely have to, I suggest sticking with Oxytocin.

Replying toStupid Questions May 2015

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Stupid Questions May 2015

Why do you care about the 'original' meaning of the word?

Let's imagine we are arguing about trees falling in the forest. You are a lumberjack who relies on a piece of fancy expensive equipment that unfortunately tends to break if subjected to accoustic vibrations. You therefore create a map where the word "sound" means accoustic vibrations. This map works well for you and helps you resolve most disguised queries you could be interested in

Then you meet me. i make a living producing cochlear implants. My livelihood depends on making implants that reliably generate the qualia of sound. I therefore have a different map from you, where... (read more)

Replying toStupid Questions May 2015

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Stupid Questions May 2015

What is the LessWrong-like answer to whether someone born a male but who identifies as female is indeed female?

The Lesswrong-like answer to whether a blue egg containing Palladium is indeed a blegg is "It depends on what your disguised query is".

If the disguised query is which pronoun you should use, I don't see any compelling reason not use the word that the person in question prefers. If you insist on using the pronoun associated with whatever disguised query you associate with sex/gender, this is at best an example of "defecting by accident".

Request for Steelman: Non-correspondence concepts of truth

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11y

A couple of days ago, Buybuydandavis wrote the following on Less Wrong:

I'm increasingly of the opinion that truth as correspondence to reality is a minority orientation.

I've spent a lot of energy over the last couple of days trying to come to terms with the implications of this sentence. While it certainly corresponds with my own observations about many people, the thought that most humans simply reject correspondence to reality as the criterion for truth seems almost too outrageous to take seriously. If upon further reflection I end up truly believing this, it seems that it would be impossible for me to have a discussion about the nature of reality with the great... (read 525 more words →)

Replying toWikipedia articles from the future

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Wikipedia articles from the future

I can see why this would look strange to a German speaker. It was just intended as a joke/reference to the Wikipedia article on the Vienna Circle. I've fixed the grammar

Ethics in a Feedback Loop: A Parable

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12y

Green Martians and Blue Martians have one thing in common: They both derive a tremendous amount of utility from tickling humans behind the ears, using their soft, feathery tentacles. In fact, the utility that they derive from this is so intense that most scientists believe at some time in the recent evolutionary past, there must have been a large selection pressure directed at ensuring that Martians were motivated to tickle humans.

There are numerous differences between Green and Blue Martians. One of those differences is that whereas the feathery tentacles of Green Martians contain stinging hairs similar to nettles, the analogous anatomic part of the Blue Martian contains a safe drug with an... (read 460 more words →)

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