lsusr

Here is a list of all my public writings and videos.

If you want to do a dialogue with me, but I didn't check your name, just send me a message instead. Ask for what you want!

Sequences

Life Star
Daoism
True Stories
Adversarial Strategy
Dialogues on Rationality
How to Write
Bayeswatch
Luna Lovegood
Sunzi's《Methods of War》
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Wiki Contributions

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lsusr82

I think there’s a mild anticorrelation between [Steven Byrnes'] posts’ karma and how objectively good and important they are...

I agree that this is true of posts that deviate from trendy topics and/or introduce new ideas, in a way that is especially true of your posts.

For long-time power users like me, I can benefit from the best possible “reputation system”, which is actually knowing most of the commenters.

As another power user, I feel this benefit too.

lsusr50

There are no better opportunities to change the world than here at Effective Evil.

―Morbus in To Change the World

lsusr30

If you use Linux, I trust you can manage on your own.

Personally, I put the line exec --no-startup-id setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps in my .config/i3/config file. Of course, this only works if you're using the i3 tiling window manager. And if you unplug your keyboard you'll have to re-run the command manually.

lsusr80

One of the tricky things about writing fiction is that anything definite I write in the comments can impact what is canon in the story, resulting in the frustrating undeath of the author's intent.

Therefore, rather than affirm or deny any of your specific claims, I just want to note that I appreciate your quality comment.

lsusr100

Another difficulty in writing science fiction is that good stories tend to pick one technology and then explore all its implications in a legible way, whereas our real future involves lots of different technologies interacting in complex multi-dimensional ways too complicated to fit into an appealing narrative or even a textbook.

lsusr40

I try to inspire people to reach for their potential.

lsusr40

You're right. Thanks. Fixed.

lsusr40

All variables are equal, but some are more equal than others.

This is a quote from George Orwell's unpublished manuscript The Theory and Practice of Algebraic Collections. He eventually split it into two separate novels which did see print. The stuff went into 1984 and the "some are more equal than others" went into Animal Farm.

If you can let letters mean whatever you want then there's nothing to stop you from doing the same with numerals. Let .

lsusr51

And is Planck's constant. I think abstractapplic is limiting this to classical mechanics.

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