| Post & message count |
Date |
Author |
Title or First Words |
| Eliezer Yudkowsky Is a Fraud (3) |
2020/09/21 |
Max |
EY is still anti-free-market:
> If you want to slap a 300% luxury tax on giant yachts, that's fine by me.
from: https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10152873248924228
anonymous #18090 - are you intending to defend EY, like do you think cu |
| Open Discussion 2 (2019) (422) |
2020/09/21 |
Max |
#18083
> dad jokes = jokes that are not mean and not dirty
I dunno about that. I googled for dad jokes and found [this page](https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/living/2017/0403/864882-dad-jokes-to-make-you-cringe/)
examples:
> 1. Child: ‘Dad, |
| Learning Updates Thread (14) |
2020/09/20 |
Max |
Max's learning report 2020 week 38 |
| curi's Microblogging (2) |
2020/09/20 |
curi |
A lot of people are bothered by some things I do in conversations. They try to be tolerant and charitable, and avoid derailing the discussion, by trying to ignore it. But this makes things worse when it's something I do on purpose instead of an occasi |
| Less Wrong Banned Me (12) |
2020/09/19 |
curi |
Vaniver, a Less Wrong admin, wrote:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PkpuvsFYr6yuYnppy/open-and-welcome-thread-september-2020?commentId=rg2aBQujqL68C7xXr
> For what it's worth, I think a decision to ban would stand on just his pursuit of conversa |
| Public University Bigotry (3) |
2020/09/19 |
Khaaan |
[PRINCETON’S “SYSTEMIC RACISM” CAPTURES THE GOVERNMENT’S ATTENTION](https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/princetons-systemic-racism-captures-the-governments-attention.php), Power Line (Sep 17, 2020):
> Two weeks ago, Princeton Uni |
| Max Microblogging (14) |
2020/09/19 |
Max |
Quick thought on a secondary goal of life. |
| Blatant Lying Example (11) |
2020/09/19 |
curi |
Lying can get you a $20 billion company:
https://hindenburgresearch.com/nikola/
Theranos only got to $9 billion by lying. |
| Discussion with gigahurt from Less Wrong (81) |
2020/09/19 |
curi |
OK, I can confirm for everyone that gigahurt is not Andy. Thanks. |
| Fallible Ideas Post-Mortems (65) |
2020/09/19 |
curi |
#18068 Due to ongoing harassing from sock puppets and the negativity in your comment, I will only discuss this if you identify yourself to me. https://curi.us/2288-identification-policy |
| Writing Update (7) |
2020/09/16 |
Max |
> i feel like you might have interpreted it differently. im not sure in what way it was different.
Yeah, I misinterpreted what you originally said to mean ~*you didn't know how much your ideas had changed* via reading curi's ideas. But you meant *y |
| Deplatforming and Fraud (256) |
2020/09/16 |
Anonymous |
#18048 It's currently watchable on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFlqXPl_hZQ |
| Media Matters Memo: Their Plans To Control All Political Speech (6) |
2020/09/16 |
Anonymous |
Former **Republican Speaker of the House** Newt Gingrich got criticized and cut-off on **Fox News** for bringing up Soros' funding of pro-crime District Attorneys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk2_4tibW8c
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| Praise from David Deutsch (2) |
2020/09/13 |
curi |
I just ran into an old email where DD calls me his "colleague" in 2011. |
| By Any Means Necessary: A Violent Marxist Cult (70) |
2020/09/13 |
Anonymous |
In mid-August, Andy Ngo shared a [video of some guys getting chased down the street by a bunch of antifa/BLM activists in Portland](https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1294901716853198850). According to this [first-hand account](https://www.americanp |
| Black Lives Matter Is Evil (4) |
2020/09/12 |
Anonymous |
#17849
Christopher Rufo is the journalist who reported on critical race theory indoctrination at Sandia National Labs, and, on Tucker Carlson Tonight, made a successful appeal to President Trump to put an end to it. He is a brave man. https://www. |
| Clarifying My Beliefs (45) |
2020/09/09 |
Andrew Ryan |
Cool, I think that makes sense if the issue is just a local artifact of this post (2374). |
| Use RSS to Subscribe to Blogs (2) |
2020/09/09 |
Anne B |
I'm trying Vienna.
----
I wanted to try Instapaper too. But I got to this:
[image]
Can Instapaper see passwords you type in to other sites? That would not be good.
I tried searching “instapaper permissions |
| Is FI Discussion Mean? (55) |
2020/09/08 |
Sia |
#17935
Nah it made sense for you to say that. I didn't explain the context in my head clearly in that post |
| Ann Coulter Mini Biography Article (3) |
2020/09/07 |
Anonymous |
Ann Coulter Article Link Moved |
| Less Wrong Related Discussion (64) |
2020/09/06 |
curi |
#17893 None of the discussion is about the topic I was trying to bring up. They aren't trying to talk about what high level stuff is. They just seem to have assumed that there exists some Turing machine that assigns arbitrary simplicity or complexity |
| Social Dynamics Summary Notes (11) |
2020/09/06 |
Anonymous |
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNhTJs6fzC8
A 5 min video by Lindybeige in 2008 where he's critical of global warming hype, attributes it to social dynamics, and calls a trendy grid-based argument 'the precautionary principle dressed up in differ |
| Social Dialog with Analysis (23) |
2020/09/05 |
Andy Dufresne |
#17868
You are correct that I didn't state an evaluation and that my message was meant to be descriptive not argumentative.
I'm neutral about whether the social protocol I described harms discussion productivity generally. I haven't looked into i |
| Politics Discussion (202) |
2020/09/05 |
Khaaan |
#17865 Ok, I think I see what you mean. Here's the history:
- You posted #17835
- I replied in #17386
- You wrote more in #17838
- I replied in #17840
- You replied in #17841, asking why my #17840 was "ignoring" your #17835
I don't remembe |
| Mathematical Inconsistency in Solomonoff Induction? (5) |
2020/09/05 |
Anonymous |
Another way to look at SI:
- communication happens
- run programs which generate communication of whatever
- when you can read what the communication is and it makes sense, you found the answer.
Alternatively, lo-fi SI:
- start with an infinite |