One of the benefits of being way out on the fringe is that no one has bothered to make arguments against you yet, so you get to be right. You get to be a critic without being critiqued in turn. Good times.
I like this and I think I’m prone to forgetting this for a few months, then asking questions then realizing plenty of important bits haven’t been thought through.
How resistant are these generalizations from fictional evidence?
You’re too conservative Konkvistador,
I’m to the right of Konkvistador and I think this is a fully general argument contra Konkvistador.
No. Meta has a infinite regress or you just aren’t meta enough about it.
Echoing komponisto, my job is incredibly non demanding of my cognitive resources so I constantly listening to audiobooks, youtube channels, and TCC/TMS Lectures at 2x speed. Over the course of an 8 hr work day I can finish about 200 pages at reasonable comprehension.
I’ll be frank.
The black dog is stronger than I. My mother died in May and I took on these projects in an attempt to stay busy and not depressed. Unfortunately all I did was damage my reputation by appearing flighty and flaky. After losing about 60$ on Beeminder, I realized that any special projects must be put on hold until I sort myself out. It’s a good project to do, Hanson has a lot of unique insights, but I cannot, for now at least, do them.
I got sidetracked by Evil Real Life Issues of Local Importance and didn’t make much progress in July on a Comprehensive post about a topic (my first post was going to be about the topic “If truth is lovecraftian (that is there exist real basilisks, Why Use Truth, this the recent post as a fulcrum and using other posts to support the theme) that approach is proving to complex for my available time commitment so I’m just going to break it up into shorter posts. That should allow me to get something out next week and produce a summary of large-ish chunks of posts and how they relate to each other assuming the Evil Local Important Issues have truly gone away and I can get some hobby non work focus stuff done. Depressingly I didn’t have enough time for Summer Projects as I thought so I’ll only be able to sum up a small amount of the whole as classes begin in the fall and then I’ll be juggling work/school life and I simply won’t have energy for anything but short posts.
Sorry for the delay, but it looks like Hofstadter’s Law has struck me. You’ll most likely see progress intermittently with larger swaths being done during academic breaks. I honestly thought my summer was more free, again, whoops.
This sounds like Alain de Boton’s Religion for Atheists without the bullshit Temple to Atheism and Agape Restaurants.
This is a good idea. I am really in support of the graphs. There are not enough graphs here lately.
My naive introspection says yes. I seem to remember someone being excited he was a LWer.
I think I remember that. Weren’t you replying to yourself over and over again taking different sides?
I’m actually going to the July rationality minicamp,
Please, please, please blog this. I would love reading it.
Beck’s rant proposing that the political left is aligned with a nebulous big-government/big-business anti-technological movement may be mostly rhetorical hot air, but it did make me wonder . ..
I get the same feeling with Thiel noticing our lack of techno-optimism in our culture compared with our optimism at 1950. Doesn’t he largely blame entrenched interests putting up regulation to stop new start ups?
I asked Konkvistador if he endorsed the Moldbuggery statement in IRC and he liked it. But I think I want to decontextualize the attitudes toward bias and debiasing So I can better fit different authors/posters together. :/
I’ve come up with /fatalism/pessimism/elitism/rational schizophrenia/optimism . With that breakdown I can put Konvistador in the same category with Plato. I love the name rational schizophrenia too much to give it up.
It will go boom and look bright. I dunno what else, I just clear the floors.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Strikes me as just statement statement not over or under (I’m assuming this is your reference?)
What do you think of the Greek Othordox? Nassim Taleb endorses them for aesthetic reasons and for the fact that their understanding of God is Apophatic primarily and thus doesn’t intrude on real world near beliefs.
Disregard me: This is an inaccurate statement, not an understatement. I still maintain the understatement of the century probably happened sometime around WWII.
Better candidate:
This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine.… We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. - Neville Chamberlain
Every Right Wing Neo Reactionary Lesswrongian is now under suspicion.
Still not regretting, what do I win?