enye-word

• enye-wordMay 31, 2018, 9:01 AM

  2 points

  on: Notic­ing the Taste of Lotus

  I liked this post, because it reminded me of how virtuous I am for breaking free of the useless distractions I’ve broken free of!

• enye-wordSep 14, 2017, 5:33 AM

  30 points

  in reply to: pepe_prime’s comment on: 2017 LessWrong Survey

  I have also taken this survey.

• enye-wordJul 16, 2017, 4:08 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Viliam’s comment on: LessWrong Is Not about Fo­rum Soft­ware, LessWrong Is about Posts (Or: How to Im­ma­nen­tize the LW 2.0 Escha­ton in 2.5 Easy Steps!)

  Yep, that’s a pretty good TL;DR.

  So, what I’m getting from your comment is that yall’ve tried to ban the problem child(ren), but couldn’t make it stick? Mmm. Well, I wish you the best of luck on that front!

LessWrong Is Not about Fo­rum Soft­ware, LessWrong Is about Posts (Or: How to Im­ma­nen­tize the LW 2.0 Escha­ton in 2.5 Easy Steps!)

• enye-wordMay 31, 2017, 2:29 PM

  7 points

  on: Well-Kept Gar­dens Die By Pacifism

  Good thing this community died for entirely unrelated reasons, then!

• enye-wordMay 31, 2017, 7:03 AM

  13 points

  on: Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

  And if you think you can explain the concept of “systematically underestimated inferential distances” briefly, in just a few words, I’ve got some sad news for you...

  “This is going to take a while to explain.”

  Did I do it? Did I win rationalism?!

  What links here?

  • cousin_it's comment on Se­condary Stres­sors and Tac­tile Ambition by lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall) (Jul 13, 2018, 8:01 AM; 23 points)
  • cousin_it's comment on A sim­pler way to think about pos­i­tive test bias by cousin_it (Jan 22, 2018, 12:18 PM; 6 points)

• enye-wordMay 10, 2017, 8:51 AM

  4 points

  0

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: Philos­o­phy: A Diseased Discipline

  In the comment he links to above, djc states “One way that philosophy makes progress is when people work in relative isolation, figuring out the consequences of assumptions rather than arguing about them. The isolation usually leads to mistakes and reinventions, but it also leads to new ideas.”

  When asked about LessWrong in a reddit AMA, David Chalmers stated “i think having subcommunities of this sort that make their own distinctive assumptions is an important mechanism of philosophical progress” and an interest in TDT/​UDT.

  (See also: https://​​slatestarcodex.com/​​2017/​​02/​​06/​​notes-from-the-asilomar-conference-on-beneficial-ai/​​)

  (Sorry to dox you, David Chalmers. Hope you’re doing well these days.)