Even with the descriptions, that’s a pretty random list of things. I haven’t even clicked any of them—there’s some good stuff in the ones I recognize, but also a lot of stuff that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with LW at all (Hyperbole and a half? Really? Allie’s funny, sure, but if she has any rationalist tendencies I haven’t noticed ’em, and her kind of humor isn’t even the same general type as what seems to be popular here), so my overall impression is that you haven’t done a very good job of filtering things, and the rest of the stuff probably isn’t worth spending my time exploring.
Huh? Hyperbole and a half has a bunch of anecdotes that illustrate interesting human behaviour, that’s totally relevant to LW.
There is the possibility that people who have an actual social life already knew that things I’ve learnt from there since so long they don’t notice it’s knowledge, that’s probably the source of confusion.
Can you list some things you have learned from Hyperbole and a Half? Allie’s a fantastic storyteller but I don’t find her especially didactically inclined.
how’s not being obviously rational an argument against it? Linking rationalists to somehting they might have just rejected as irrelevant otherwise and pointing out how to learn from it seems more valuable than just pointing at somewhere so obvious they’d have found it themselves eventually no matter what.
Even with the descriptions, that’s a pretty random list of things. I haven’t even clicked any of them—there’s some good stuff in the ones I recognize, but also a lot of stuff that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with LW at all (Hyperbole and a half? Really? Allie’s funny, sure, but if she has any rationalist tendencies I haven’t noticed ’em, and her kind of humor isn’t even the same general type as what seems to be popular here), so my overall impression is that you haven’t done a very good job of filtering things, and the rest of the stuff probably isn’t worth spending my time exploring.
Huh? Hyperbole and a half has a bunch of anecdotes that illustrate interesting human behaviour, that’s totally relevant to LW.
There is the possibility that people who have an actual social life already knew that things I’ve learnt from there since so long they don’t notice it’s knowledge, that’s probably the source of confusion.
Can you list some things you have learned from Hyperbole and a Half? Allie’s a fantastic storyteller but I don’t find her especially didactically inclined.
Not any explicit, declatative facts that I can think of, more an quantitative improvent in intuition about the kind of things humans might do.
This Is Why You’ll Never Be an Adult has a clue about how grandiosity can make motivation collapse.
My Boyfriend Doesn’t Have Ebola… Probably is good about the difficulties of communicating qualia.
However, I think they’re mostly brilliantly funny about neurotic states of mind rather than an obvious rationalist resource.
how’s not being obviously rational an argument against it? Linking rationalists to somehting they might have just rejected as irrelevant otherwise and pointing out how to learn from it seems more valuable than just pointing at somewhere so obvious they’d have found it themselves eventually no matter what.