The only time I’ve ever read a vague four-word sentence that deserves an upvote. Such things tickle me.
adamisom
Karma: 290
And what if it is? I am not claiming this is so. It is rhetorical. What then?
Why have you posted a picture of my mother’s murderer? You monster, Mr. Shulman, how dare you… I had nearly forgotten that terrible ordeal.
Darn it.
Even though you are talking explicitly about signaling, I still couldn’t help myself from liking it.
I also like chaosmis’ comment. It expressed what I should have.… Though his comment might also be a sinister meta-signaling-signaling trolling :P
God, I hate signaling.
(Wait, am I doing it right now?)
(Oh shit, and now.)
(THERE IS NO RELEASE FROM THE KRAKEN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AND NEVER LOOK BACK!!)
Wow. This is fascinating.
You, Ezekiel, are basically saying ‘I’m aware that a behavior expressing pedantry like that is a signalling thing, that it specifically signals “nerdiness”, and that such a person is trying to ‘cultivate an image’.”
“Oh, and I just did that”
… Presumably you value signaling and cultivating an image with the aim of belonging in a nerdy LessWrong in-group.
facepalm What are we becoming?
P.S. On an unrelated topic, I think the site founder is wrong about some things. And I just thought you ought to know that I’m such a contrarian :)
Unfortunately, AGI isn’t a “risky technology” where mostly is going to cut it in any sense, including adhering to expectations for safety regulation.
I’m hoping that this survey reveals that it is incorrect to refer to us LessWrongers as “gentlemen”
… And yes, you may take that either way. After all, there were questions on both our gender and our # of sexual partners.
The best kind! (except not really)
Yes.
Haha… Obviously it’s not the target behavior, but I, at least, assume that almost everyone who has commented to that effect has actually done it.
Because you have something I aspire to (multiple casual sex partners), why else?
I mean LW karma (plus I’m a Redditor too) -
from my study of human societies, I believe my remark is called a “joke”—though I admit some people are bad at making jokes :p
Also, I failed to answer quite a few questions when I got 110, thinking I’d be penalized for wrong answers… Apparently I failed at reading the directions which state you should answer all of them facepalm
I like you
No. Stop. The only reason necessary is because we want more of that behavior, right?
But I absolutely believe in karma. I guess that makes me spiritual. The things you find out about yourself eh?
Hmm, yes. But it’s not quite that bad. 1) I re-took the test right away (less time to ‘think about the questions’), and 2) I had figured out many of the questions, but I didn’t receive actual feedback on which I got right or wrong. Anyway, I’d be surprised if my actual IQ were below 130.
I took the survey.
As per ancient tradition (apparently) - give me karma
Hmm. I got 110. And then because that’s ridiculous, and I have an ego, I took it a second—and third—time, subsequently scoring 126 and 140. (I reported 125 on the survey because I know 110 isn’t right.)
And while I was trying harder on the second and third attempts (as a result of realizing ‘oh, I guess most of these actually are easy to everyone else, not just me, so I shouldn’t be so leisurely’), I wasn’t superbly focused on any—for example, I became distracted on the third attempt with something in another tab for more than 10 minutes before remembering it.
All I’m saying is I’m dubious of this IQ test.
In other words, you’re meta-cogitation is 1 - do I trust my very certain intuition? or 2 - do I trust the heuristic from formal/mathematical thinking (that I see as useful partially and specifically to compensate for inaccuracies in our intuition)?
It seems to me this could be a smartphone app. Whenever a person wants to make a prediction about a personal event, they click on the app and speak, with a pause between the thing and how likely you think it is. The app could just store verbatim text, separating question/answer, and timestamping recordings in case you want to update your prediction later. If you learn to specify when you think the outcome will occur, it can make a sound to remind you to check off whether it happened; otherwise it could remind you periodically, like at the end of every day. Why couldn’t it have data analysis tools to let you visualize calibration, or find useful patterns and alert you? Seems a plausible app to me.