thomblake

As rationalists, we are trained to maintain constant vigilance against common errors in our own thinking. Still, we must be especially careful of biases that are unusually common amongst our kind. Consider the following scenario: Frodo Baggins is buying pants. Which of these is he most likely to buy: (a)...

Summary: I propose we somewhat relax our stance on political speech on Less Wrong. Related: The mind-killer, Mind-killer A recent series of posts by a well-meaning troll (example) has caused me to re-examine our "no-politics" norm. I believe there has been some unintentional creep from the original intent of Politics...

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This is a little off-topic, but I can't find the answer and I realized this might actually be an excellent place to ask this question: I've noticed Google Translate seems to do a pretty bad job sometimes of Russian-to-English and vice versa, assuming that my human-translated documents are correct. Does...

Just realized I hadn't seen a post about this, and couldn't find mention of it by searching... The H+ Summit is happening this Saturday and Sunday at Harvard. I assume there are quite a few Humanity+ fellow-travelers here who might be going (though it's kindof late notice if this is...

Summary: Yudkowsky's fiction emphasizes neodeconstructive rationalism, which serves as a bridge between class and sexual identity. Materialist libertarianism (in the metaphysical sense) implies quantum nonrealism, but examining the works of Vinge, Gibson, and especially Egan in this light generates the discourse of semitoic consciousness. 1. Precapitalist textual theory and neodeconstructive...

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