I don’t know if I can descrigbe my meme spreading endevaours as “introduced” about my meme spreading endeavors, more like occasionally name dropping when discussing things like politics (craziness), technological progress, the scientific method, evolution, logic or space travel.
I don’t think I’m actually making a difference, the activation energies appear to be too high, the “best” result I have to show is my best friend having a temporary affective death spiral around my beliefs (which are heavily LW influenced), he reverted later, I don’t think I really made him rational in any real way (even during the height of the death spiral I didn’t think he was really becoming more rational, the death spiral was just that, a death spiral not founded on reasoned thought).
I’ve actually had difficulty even having a discussion with my GF on this (because of the number of cached thoughts from LW that I’ve assimilated and the added difficulty of translating the memes on the fly from English) after she expressed skepticism about human minds being implementable (to my best estimate she expressed concerns about the feasibility of measurement) in a different medium as well as her aversion to cryonics (which mostly boiled down to “I would be too lonley” and “why do you want to spend an eternity without me?”).
I have introduced a few of my friends to LW, but as far as I know none of them read it regularly. I need cooler friends.
I don’t know if I can descrigbe my meme spreading endevaours as “introduced” about my meme spreading endeavors, more like occasionally name dropping when discussing things like politics (craziness), technological progress, the scientific method, evolution, logic or space travel.
I don’t think I’m actually making a difference, the activation energies appear to be too high, the “best” result I have to show is my best friend having a temporary affective death spiral around my beliefs (which are heavily LW influenced), he reverted later, I don’t think I really made him rational in any real way (even during the height of the death spiral I didn’t think he was really becoming more rational, the death spiral was just that, a death spiral not founded on reasoned thought).
I’ve actually had difficulty even having a discussion with my GF on this (because of the number of cached thoughts from LW that I’ve assimilated and the added difficulty of translating the memes on the fly from English) after she expressed skepticism about human minds being implementable (to my best estimate she expressed concerns about the feasibility of measurement) in a different medium as well as her aversion to cryonics (which mostly boiled down to “I would be too lonley” and “why do you want to spend an eternity without me?”).