My guess is that this post was going over well-trodden ground, being mostly wrong yet taking kind of an authoratiative tone anyway, and doing so in a format that suggested it lacked any revision at all? I think the topics you're grappling with are understandable things to be confused about, but on LessWrong, it's generally treatead as better to express one's uncertainty in a tone of uncertainty; and if the topic seems like one people should definitely have already poured some resources into exploring, e.g. probability theory, then asking if those explorati... (read more)
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1NotaSprayer ASprayer
first of all thank your for the time to write your response as i said i am new here and it means a lot.
i am sorry if my post came off as authoritative but to me it seems you came off more as authoritative than i did. i generally think that it is better to write something novel and wrong than regurgitate already said information. if you have critiques of my ideas as you suggest by saying "(Then, if those resources themselves leave you with confusion, you can express it and work on the problem from there. Alternatively, you could work through the whole problem yourself from first principles, and potentially provide a novel and correct take on the topic; just, you did neither, which is probably where the downvotes came from.)" please express them, i cannot in a short way express how much i want my ideas to be critiqued. to me i seems that I did the latter of the two methodologies you presented---albeit with some changes---, at the very least i attempted to. again if you disagree then state why.
by the way i said "literally throwing shit out there" which seems clearly not authoritative.
This maybe would have made more sense as a Discord message in a rat server?
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1NotaSprayer ASprayer
genuinely want to know why this got 21 downvotes. i am new to the culture of less wrong.
is it because?
1: the ideas are trash
2:the formatting is trash
3:it is incomprehensible
seriously please tell me
sinceraly
-not the sprayer
My guess is that this post was going over well-trodden ground, being mostly wrong yet taking kind of an authoratiative tone anyway, and doing so in a format that suggested it lacked any revision at all? I think the topics you're grappling with are understandable things to be confused about, but on LessWrong, it's generally treatead as better to express one's uncertainty in a tone of uncertainty; and if the topic seems like one people should definitely have already poured some resources into exploring, e.g. probability theory, then asking if those explorati... (read more)