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alicey
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Voted up this comment, for kabbalistic reasons.
okay, playing house isn’t actually a coherent category. there are ways to play house that have carse-jargon-“definite rules” and have a carse-jargon-defined-beginning&end, and there are ways to play house that don’t. most instances of playing house are of the former type, likely including your experiences.
carse uses words in weird ways.
carse uses words in weird ways. in carse jargon, playing house is a finite game.
tomayto tomahto
afaict the quirrell tulpa is one of the more common types of tulpas. if you have one, do not use it. it is secretly voldemort and will destroy your soul.
When you say “a science-fiction story”, I am curious if it ever was finished. Is it HPMOR?
Reading this was a bit annoying:
Only one statement about a hand of cards is true:
There is a King or Ace or both.
There is a Queen or Ace or both.
Which is more likely, King or Ace?
… The majority of people respond that the Ace is more likely to occur, but this is logically incorrect.
It is just communicating badly https://xkcd.com/169/ . In a common parse, Ace is more likely to occur. It would be more likely to be parsed as you intended if you had said
Only one of the following premises is true about a particular hand of cards:
(like you did on the next question!)
you’re not really wrong but you’re missing the point
You do have to be being careful not to give it too much computation time: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
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nod. Sounds reasonable!
It might help to be more intentional, to prevent people from having jarring experiences like that.
I liked (and upvoted) this post and the list is useful.
The use of “male pronoun as default” was a bit jarring :(
i am curious what the nice use of hebrew is!
Voted down all comments in this chain except this one, because I am flesh.
I’m more okay with it being because my work is valuable: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/
It should be noted that many employers do hire the somebody who learned to code at App Academy but never went to college over the other person.
(After all, the somebody can signal agentiness about becoming a better programmer, unlike the person. And the somebody is actually more likely to be a good employee than the person.)
(I’m not sure if you were implying the opposite of this or not (it is ambiguous))
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you are missing the concept of blather