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I agree that this investigation was worthwhile and important.

But is it a case of “lying to interview subjects”? That is what we’re talking about, after all. Did Bly even interview anyone, in the course of her investigation?

Undercover investigative journalism has some interesting ethical conundrums of its own, but it’s not clear what it has to do with interviews, or lying to the subjects thereof…

I was actually looking for specific examples, precisely so that we could test our intuitions, rather than just stating our intuitions. Do you happen to have any particular ones in mind?

If you ban lying to subjects, a swath of important news becomes impossible to cover.

What would be some examples of this?

Can the process not be automated? Like, sheet music specifies notes, right? And notes are frequencies. And frequencies can be determined by examining a recording by means of appropriate hardware/software (very easily, in the case of digital recordings, I should think). Right? So, is there not some software or something that can do this?

What exactly does the process of generating sheet music involve? Like, how does sheet music happen, in general?

I’m afraid I don’t understand what the “attempted telekinesis” post is talking about…

The “curse of the counterfactual” post, I also don’t really understand. It’s about a… therapy technique? For people who are fixated on certain events in their past?

It seems like this whole discussion is based on using words like “faith” in weird ways, and making statements that sound profound but are actually trivial or tautological (like “the world is exactly as it is”).

Maybe it would help to ask this directly: is “faith” here being used in anything at all like the ordinary sense of the word? (Or, any of the ordinary senses of the word?) Or is this a case of “we’re talking about a weird new concept, but we’re going to use a commonplace word for it”?

So… are you just saying that reality exists, and is not merely shaped by our perceptions?

This is one of the bedrock ideas of LW-style rationality, isn’t it? And what does it have to do with “faith”…?

What would it mean for this to be false?

This is … not the future I hope for. I am probably more futuristic than most of the public, and am excited about things like space colonization and more abundant energy. I am definitely not excited about mind uploading or turning the sun into computonium.

Strongly seconded.

Just so; the correct way is indeed to show the full (zero-based y-axis) chart, then a “zoomed-in” version, with the y-axis mapping clearly indicated. Of course, this takes more effort than just including the one chart; but this is not surprising—doing things correctly often takes more effort than doing things incorrectly!

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