Means and ends. LW was the means of “spreading his ideas” as you put it. Whereas Gleb is promoting the idea that we should do outreach for LW. LW as the end.
tut
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Ok, this is something I have been thinking every time I see an Outreach Thread, and now I can’t resist asking it:
When did LW become a proselytizing community?
And are we sure that it is a good idea to do a lot of outreach when the majority of discussion on the site is about why LW sucks?
And they left because they were done with their respective projects, and maybe because of negative comments.
Eliezer had said the things he was planning to say with the sequences and had found new research fellows to start working on AI again.
Yvain was a sock puppet that Scott used on a role playing forum he was active on and did some LW posts as backstopping. Then he continued posting here for a while but writing without politics and not under his own name felt too much like hard work. Now his entire blog is pseudonymous because writing about politics under your own name is not such a good idea, but it is still all about political conversations rather than the sciency stuff he did as Yvain.
But it was not about Eugine or downvotes because they always got much more upvotes than downvotes on damn near every comment and every post.
Yes. He uses sockpuppets for voting, so presumably he uses them for upvoting himself as well. But most comments of his that I have seen I would expect to have positive (1 or 2) karma from anyone else as well, and if his comments were sufficiently horrible people would downvote him enough to overwhelm any amount of sockpuppets.
He makes a bunch of comments that are good enough to get positive karma, though rarely stellar. Mostly semipolitical quotes in the quotes thread.
Beyond caste might be misleading. You can always become casteless, but that is worse than being the lowest caste.
Me too.
If there was anything useful the banker could get for $5 then he would buy it himself. The argument for giving to the poorest people is not that they are the most deserving, or even that they are suffering the most, but rather that they are the cheapest to help.
Would you mind summarizing the point. Because I don’t get it.
Or because it’s the place closest to San Francisco where gambling was legal.
Presumably people read your old comments and upvote them.
They get positive expected real interest from loans they give, but pay negative real interest on deposits they receive.
Taboo ‘care’. They did kill people just for looking Chinese.
… or whatever is their more civilized equivalent in USA
I think the generalized concept is ‘politicians’. And yeah, that sounds likely. But I would say that it is a problem that the ones who make the rules and the ones who explain to everyone else what’s what all live in an environment where earning something honestly is weird is a problem. That there are some who are not in such a bubble is not the problem.
That’s a matter of perspective/values. I agree with Christian on this one.
What is your credence that the google of five years in the future won’t find things written under pseudonyms when you search for the author’s real name? 10 years?
I think it would be counted as whichever way was used by whoever you got the inheritance from.
I use dl. I have one of the most popular Swedish cook books, and it consistently gives volumes of flour, baking soda etc.
Here is a map with London and Istanbul on it. In between them are many countries with at least six majority languages (and that’s a low count, where some people would lynch me for saying that their language is the same as the one their neighbor speaks). Los Angeles and Tijuana on the other hand are two cities right by a border, and the only languages commonly spoken between them is English, the language of the USA, and Spanish, the language of Mexico.
Your siblings is not a reproductively isolated population (hopefully=)). The relevant question is if the helpers are more or less fit relative to the population as a whole. So in your example, where the helpers give up something and get back less, the gene goes extinct.
But start instead of just zero-sum redistribution with something like that trust game where you send money through a slot and whatever amount you send the other guy gets triple. But it’s multiplayer and simultaneous. So the helpers give up some amount, let’s say x each and every family member gets three times what the average participant gave up. If half of the family members are helpers then everyone gets 3x/2. Which is more than x, so now the gene gives a fitness advantage.