Thanks for your thoughtful engagement! The metaphors work differently for different people: for some they are useful, for some less so. My wife and I use the elephant and rider metaphors quite frequently when we talk with each other, and in our own thinking—they work well for us. Glad that you found the framing and the writing helpful, as well as the references :-)
I really appreciate your support, but please stop these posts, whoever you are, as you are creating a bad impression of Intentional Insights through posting these multiple comments. Thanks!
Links to that website have been spammed onto LW before. I am becoming more and more sympathetic to OrphanWilde’s comments on Gleb’s recent thread. (Apropos of which, I don’t think I’d have thought “Ella” was terribly suspicious until I read Gleb’s comment defending her, after which I now reckon Pr(sockpuppet) ~= 0.75. My apologies, Ella, if you happen to be reading this and are not in fact a sockpuppet.)
Though … I wonder about this. Comment-spamming LW with this sort of thing seems like such a tone-deaf thing to do, and doing it twice so super-extra-tone-deaf, that I’m wondering about more exotic explanations. Some third party who has a grudge against Gleb and wants to give his outfit a bad name? A more general comment-spamming campaign executed by someone who didn’t know that LW would be a bad choice of place to post comment spam? I dunno.
The thing that is driving me crazy WRT Gleb is exactly the tone-deafness. It’s not just bad, it’s bizarro-world bad, to the point where it feels like it’s that bad on purpose only I can’t imagine any possible purpose. That’s the “recursive” aspect to the weirdness.
(I actually came across iamhappy in my search of his posts for other Ella-like accounts, as opposed to in the recent comments; I didn’t see an immediate connection, so I dismissed it as a spambot, and didn’t initially notice the spam was new. There were two other Ella-like accounts, not including iamhappy.)
Yikes, just discovered these comments. Not sure what’s going on there. I pointed out above that while I appreciate that person liking the MPQ, it’s not appropriate to post these here in this spammy manner.
Thanks for your thoughtful engagement! The metaphors work differently for different people: for some they are useful, for some less so. My wife and I use the elephant and rider metaphors quite frequently when we talk with each other, and in our own thinking—they work well for us. Glad that you found the framing and the writing helpful, as well as the references :-)
I was recently on a quest to find meaning & purpose to life. My efforts were proving futile until I found the MPQ Tool. Read more about my story here at: http://www.happening-life.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-life-2/
I was recently on a quest to find meaning & purpose to life. My efforts were proving futile until I found the MPQ Tool. Read more about my story here at: http://www.happening-life.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-life-2/
I really appreciate your support, but please stop these posts, whoever you are, as you are creating a bad impression of Intentional Insights through posting these multiple comments. Thanks!
I’ll save all y’all the trouble and directly quote the relevant part:
Links to that website have been spammed onto LW before. I am becoming more and more sympathetic to OrphanWilde’s comments on Gleb’s recent thread. (Apropos of which, I don’t think I’d have thought “Ella” was terribly suspicious until I read Gleb’s comment defending her, after which I now reckon Pr(sockpuppet) ~= 0.75. My apologies, Ella, if you happen to be reading this and are not in fact a sockpuppet.)
Though … I wonder about this. Comment-spamming LW with this sort of thing seems like such a tone-deaf thing to do, and doing it twice so super-extra-tone-deaf, that I’m wondering about more exotic explanations. Some third party who has a grudge against Gleb and wants to give his outfit a bad name? A more general comment-spamming campaign executed by someone who didn’t know that LW would be a bad choice of place to post comment spam? I dunno.
The thing that is driving me crazy WRT Gleb is exactly the tone-deafness. It’s not just bad, it’s bizarro-world bad, to the point where it feels like it’s that bad on purpose only I can’t imagine any possible purpose. That’s the “recursive” aspect to the weirdness.
(I actually came across iamhappy in my search of his posts for other Ella-like accounts, as opposed to in the recent comments; I didn’t see an immediate connection, so I dismissed it as a spambot, and didn’t initially notice the spam was new. There were two other Ella-like accounts, not including iamhappy.)
Yikes, just discovered these comments. Not sure what’s going on there. I pointed out above that while I appreciate that person liking the MPQ, it’s not appropriate to post these here in this spammy manner.
A bit of googling would point to Ella being a Filipino girl with a FB and a Twitter account.
Noted. Probability estimate duly nudged downward. (And Pr(meatpuppet) increased just a little.)
Yup, Ella is from Albay in the Phillipines. She is an aspiring rationalist who was introduced to Less Wrong through Intentional Insights content.
As I said below, just discovered these. Not my work at all. Sorry to see these spammy comments.