My “RECENT ON RATIONALITY BLOGS” section on the right sidebar is blank.
If this isn’t just me, and remains this way for long, I predict LW traffic will drop markedly as I primarily use LW habitually as a way to access SSC, and I’d bet my experience is not unique in this way.
Maybe you’re just not rational enough to be shown that content? I see like 10 posts there.
MIRI has invented a proprietary algorithm that uses the third derivative of your mouse cursor position and click speed to predict your calibration curve, IQ and whether you would one-box on Newcomb’s problem with a correlation of 95%. LW mods have recently combined those into an overall rationality quotient which the site uses to decide what level of secret rationality knowledge you are permitted to see.
Maybe you should do some debiasing, practice being well-calibrated, read the sequences and try again later?
EDIT: Some people seem to be missing that this is intended as humor ….........
Yes, I totally agree. In the last few weeks, I have seen some totally legit targets for being on −10 and not visible unless you you click on them, such as the ‘click’ posts, repetitive spam about that other website, probably the weird guy who just got banned from the open thread too.
However, I have also seen people advocate using mass downvoting on an OK-but-not-great article on cults that they just disagree with, and now someone wants to downvote to oblivion a joke in the open thread. Why? Is humor banned?
There is a legitimate middle ground between toxicity and brilliance.
There is a legitimate middle ground between toxicity and brilliance.
Agreed.
I think humour is a mixed bag. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. In my ideal situation there would be a place for humour to happen where people can choose to go, or choose not to go. Humour should exist but mixing it in with everything else is not always great.
My “RECENT ON RATIONALITY BLOGS” section on the right sidebar is blank.
If this isn’t just me, and remains this way for long, I predict LW traffic will drop markedly as I primarily use LW habitually as a way to access SSC, and I’d bet my experience is not unique in this way.
It looks that way to me as well, and I don’t think that should be the case. I’ll investigate what’s up.
On an initial pass, the code hasn’t been updated in a month, so I doubt that’s a cause. If you look at the list of feedbox urls here, two of them seem like they’re not working (the Givewell one and the CFAR one).
It’s not clear to me yet how Google’s feed object made here works; it looks like we feed it a url, then try to load it in a way that handles errors. But if it checks the URL ahead of the load, that might error out in a way that breaks the feedbox.
(The page also has an Uncaught Error: Module: ‘feeds’ not found! which I’m not sure how to interpret yet, but makes me more suspicious of that region.)
Both NoScript, and Disconnect blockers, block those.
I still have to whitelist Vigilink every time i come here, and i can’t see lots of features and editing handles if i haven’t gone to Reddit and whitelisted it before visiting here....
My “RECENT ON RATIONALITY BLOGS” section on the right sidebar is blank.
If this isn’t just me, and remains this way for long, I predict LW traffic will drop markedly as I primarily use LW habitually as a way to access SSC, and I’d bet my experience is not unique in this way.
Maybe you’re just not rational enough to be shown that content? I see like 10 posts there.
MIRI has invented a proprietary algorithm that uses the third derivative of your mouse cursor position and click speed to predict your calibration curve, IQ and whether you would one-box on Newcomb’s problem with a correlation of 95%. LW mods have recently combined those into an overall rationality quotient which the site uses to decide what level of secret rationality knowledge you are permitted to see.
Maybe you should do some debiasing, practice being well-calibrated, read the sequences and try again later?
EDIT: Some people seem to be missing that this is intended as humor ….........
it’s a shame downvoting is temporarily disabled.
Why does everyone want to downvote everything, ever!? Seriously, lighten up!!!
no, some things would benefit from being voted down out of existence.
Yes, I totally agree. In the last few weeks, I have seen some totally legit targets for being on −10 and not visible unless you you click on them, such as the ‘click’ posts, repetitive spam about that other website, probably the weird guy who just got banned from the open thread too.
However, I have also seen people advocate using mass downvoting on an OK-but-not-great article on cults that they just disagree with, and now someone wants to downvote to oblivion a joke in the open thread. Why? Is humor banned?
There is a legitimate middle ground between toxicity and brilliance.
Agreed.
I think humour is a mixed bag. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. In my ideal situation there would be a place for humour to happen where people can choose to go, or choose not to go. Humour should exist but mixing it in with everything else is not always great.
Perhaps you are looking at the “RECENT POSTS” section rather than the section I mentioned?
I’ll work on this.
Maybe you could work on reading?
No it’s definitely “RECENT ON RATIONALITY BLOGS” section ;)
It looks that way to me as well, and I don’t think that should be the case. I’ll investigate what’s up.
On an initial pass, the code hasn’t been updated in a month, so I doubt that’s a cause. If you look at the list of feedbox urls here, two of them seem like they’re not working (the Givewell one and the CFAR one).
It’s not clear to me yet how Google’s feed object made here works; it looks like we feed it a url, then try to load it in a way that handles errors. But if it checks the URL ahead of the load, that might error out in a way that breaks the feedbox.
(The page also has an Uncaught Error: Module: ‘feeds’ not found! which I’m not sure how to interpret yet, but makes me more suspicious of that region.)
Both NoScript, and Disconnect blockers, block those. I still have to whitelist Vigilink every time i come here, and i can’t see lots of features and editing handles if i haven’t gone to Reddit and whitelisted it before visiting here....
So, we use google.feeds.Feed(url) to manage this. If you go to the docs page for that, you find: