Now that would be reminiscent. Considering that I stumbled across Extropianism by way of Hyper-Weirdness by WWW. Also considering that I believe Cosma is the only person to use the phrase “Bayesian Conspiracy” before I did.
Considering ‘bayesians’ are one of his bête noires, this would be very cool, nevermind that as a teenager I learnt far more from reading Eliezer’s posts at extropy and Shalizi’s webbed notebooks than school.*
Cosma Shalizi?
Now that would be reminiscent. Considering that I stumbled across Extropianism by way of Hyper-Weirdness by WWW. Also considering that I believe Cosma is the only person to use the phrase “Bayesian Conspiracy” before I did.
Considering ‘bayesians’ are one of his bête noires, this would be very cool, nevermind that as a teenager I learnt far more from reading Eliezer’s posts at extropy and Shalizi’s webbed notebooks than school.*
Another topic of discussion could be this appendage to his nanotech notebook http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/nanotech.html : “Update, 13 March 2004: At some point in the last ten years I’ve come to no longer believe that”
Also, Hofstadter and Chalmers seconded.
*massive understatement