“Those are just more available to you, not actually more likely.”
“Are you more an aspiring rationalist, ‘aspiring rationalist,’ ‘aspiring’ rationalist, or aspiring ‘rationalist’?”
“The invisible is implied here.”
“Is that a disjunctive or conjunctive event?”
“It seemed hard until I hacked away at the edges.”
“You didn’t time yourself thinking about it before proposing solutions?”
“I have something to protect.”
“Someone should type a transcript of that.”
“I don’t know if that’s still an open problem, I’ve been following the HPMOR thread instead of that one.” (Said to a Philosophy professor about a philosophical problem.)
“Is there a more technical explanation?
“Argument screens off authority.”
“Go ahead and try to ‘other optimize’ me.”
“That’s one of my ugh fields.”
“That’s not a property, it’s a dangling variable.”
“ADBOC.”
Shit and Bullshit Rationalists Don’t Say:
“Gwern hasn’t summarized any research on that.”
“Did Yvain even edit that before posting?”
“What are his/her credentials?”
“That’s absurd!”
“Let’s hope that’s true.”
“I’ve read more papers by Scott Aaronson than just the one.” “Which one?” (Both of these.)
“All I want to know is the net positive or negative votes my comments and posts have received.”
“I don’t have an opinion as to which explanation of Bayes’ theorem I’d recommend.”
“We played reference class tennis.”
“Those are just more available to you, not actually more likely.”
“Are you more an aspiring rationalist, ‘aspiring rationalist,’ ‘aspiring’ rationalist, or aspiring ‘rationalist’?”
“The invisible is implied here.”
“Is that a disjunctive or conjunctive event?”
“It seemed hard until I hacked away at the edges.”
“You didn’t time yourself thinking about it before proposing solutions?”
“I have something to protect.”
“Someone should type a transcript of that.”
“I don’t know if that’s still an open problem, I’ve been following the HPMOR thread instead of that one.” (Said to a Philosophy professor about a philosophical problem.)
“Is there a more technical explanation?
“Argument screens off authority.”
“Go ahead and try to ‘other optimize’ me.”
“That’s one of my ugh fields.”
“That’s not a property, it’s a dangling variable.”
“ADBOC.”
Shit and Bullshit Rationalists Don’t Say:
“Gwern hasn’t summarized any research on that.”
“Did Yvain even edit that before posting?”
“What are his/her credentials?”
“That’s absurd!”
“Let’s hope that’s true.”
“I’ve read more papers by Scott Aaronson than just the one.” “Which one?” (Both of these.)
“All I want to know is the net positive or negative votes my comments and posts have received.”
“I don’t have an opinion as to which explanation of Bayes’ theorem I’d recommend.”