The article you cited has a paywall, so I cannot read it for myself, but Reddit says it’s bad, and I’m highly skeptical myself. Wikipedia also doesn’t mention any critique that comes anywhere close to what you describe, not even on the talk page. I also tried to search for such criticism somewhere else, and didn’t find anything. So I’m confidant that this is wrong, and that the way I described Leopold is largely correct.
Yoav Ravid
Domain: Singing (especially theatre/musicals, but not just)
Link: Excerpt, full interview
Person: Philip Quast
Background: He played Javert in the 10th anniversary rendition of Les Mis.
Why: Philip Quast’s has probably done the best performance of Javert, and in the interview he goes through the process of how he figures out how to sing his songs.
For those who, like me, didn’t know the reference
I suggested something similar a few months back as a requirement for casting strong votes.
I’d be interested in tacit knowledge videos about writing, if anyone knows any.
Huh. That’s not a possibility I considered. I’m still betting it is AI generated but you changed my odds.
Yes, it doesn’t say so explicitly, but it’s very clear from the post that it is.
Is it possible to download all songs at once?
Yep.. That’s what I expected the first one to be.
I did not know AI has gotten this good at creating music. Wow...
“To be one more milestone in humanity’s road is the best that can be said of anyone”—Eliezer Yudkowsky
Daniel Kahneman, you were a milestone in humanity’s road to rationality. Thank you for that.
Welcome to LessWrong! Your story sounds fitting to me. I’d love to read to read it :)
I think calling these “Attitudes” is alright (and indeed better than “Theories”). But if you’re still not happy with it then you might prefer “Dispositions”.
Welcome! I think you may be interested in a review of Steven Pinker’s book on rationality.
He didn’t say anything like that in Politics is the Mind-Killer, quite the contrary:
“Politics is an important domain to which we should individually apply our rationality—but it’s a terrible domain in which to learn rationality, or discuss rationality, unless all the discussants are already rational.”
“I’m not saying that I think we should be apolitical”
The main point of the post was to not shove politics where it’s unnecessary, because it can have all these bad effects. I expect Eliezer agrees far more with the idea that Politics is hard mode, than the idea that “we couldn’t expect our rationality skills to be as helpful in determining truth in politics”.
The new comments outline feature is great! Thanks, LW team :)
I don’t know what you mean by aesthetic death, but I’m glad to help :)
Can you say exactly which claims Zack is making without showing enough evidence? Is it one or more of these
(1) For all nouns N, you can’t define N any way you want, for at least 37 reasons.
(2) Woman is such a noun.
(3) Therefore, you can’t define the word woman any way you want.
Or something else?
Even if it’s true that he’s obsessed with it and everything he writes is somehow connected to it—what’s the problem with that? Couldn’t you have said the same thing about Eliezer and AI? I bet there were lots of important contributions that were made by people following an obsession, even to their own detriment.
To me the question is whether it’s true and valuable (I think so), not whether he’s obsessed.
Looking for blog platform/framework recommendations
I had a Wordpress blog, but I don’t like wordpress and I want to move away from it.
Substack doesn’t seem like a good option because I want high customizability and multilingual support (my Blog is going to be in English and Hebrew).
I would like something that I can use for free with my own domain (so not Wix).
The closest thing I found to what I’m looking for was MkDocs Material, but it’s still geared too much towards documentation, and I don’t like its blog functionality enough.
Other requirements: Dark/Light mode, RSS, Newsletter support.
Does anyone have another suggestion? It’s fine if it requires a bit of technical skill (though better if it doesn’t).