This is good but how do you compensate people for holding onto their money for the long period of time that would be necessary for something like "I won't publish in Elsevier".
Perhaps the money could go into a mutual fund or charity scheme? (Defect and it's donated to evil?) t.co/Jwxf3jph8O
@Alain_Mower That's the original Will Smith movie ending (I think?), except he doesn't kill himself. In the book he's captured by vampires (the 'zombies' are vampires) and then ripped to shreds by an angry mob of night creatures.
@Alain_Mower @DDagrate My problem with the original phrasing is it makes it sound like he kills himself out of guilt, rather than because he is in a situation where the alternative is a more painful death at other people's hands.
@DDagrate @Alain_Mower Yeah I picked up my copy to check, didn't catch they're suicide pills on my first reading. Thought they were painkillers and he gets tossed to the mob like an unfeeling ragdoll.
In any case, Neville dies at the end after realizing he's the monster.
Brain Noise: "In the future there will be no restaurants and no friends."
When I was 8 or so, I investigated why girls like tea parties by taking some stuffed animals, my sisters abandoned tea set and pouring water for Mr. Bear and Ms. Bratz. Imagine this young boy studiously cargo culting an unnatural female behavior.
This thread is worse than that. x.com/kaschuta/statu…
@robinhanson You don't want to know.
@robinhanson https://t.co/znthRhQnxX
Surprisingly good thread for what sounds like a crack intro tweet. x.com/crimkadid/stat…
One of the crueler gotchas of modernity is using systems as tools of abuse, leading good people to a local maxima of rejecting systems as self protection which permanently disadvantages them against systematic evil.
I think this is actually most Twitter users not thinking about how popularity works. The minute you start asking "So how did 10k people find and follow that persons account?" you're already in the mode of thinking that prevents you from expecting content Just Appears unfiltered. x.com/nwilliams030/s…
People over the age of 25 don't mind having mediocre follower counts, so they don't experiment with content strategies, let alone trying to understand and play the algorithm.
Prediction (without looking it up/checking): What makes TikTok et al. special is that a high proportion of users on the platform also make content. The more users are on the creator side of content, the more understanding they have that deep effort goes into being popular.
Nobody gets bravery points for defending normality.
"Offutt hurled it across the room and announced to his wife that he could do better. She asked ‘why don’t you?’
...
Offutt’s wife, Jodie, was an enthusiastic supporter of his work. She assisted him in many ways, notably by typing out his final drafts."
medium.com/the-mission/le… x.com/Aella_Girl/sta…
@0x49fa98 @Aella_Girl @primalpoly It is immensely clarifying to know that Max More's Extropy, of which LessWrong is a descendant, was explicitly started with the goal of creating a "substitute" for religion:
raw.githubusercontent.com/Extropians/Ext…
(As though any 'substitute' weren't itself a religion)
@0x49fa98 @Aella_Girl @primalpoly Never.
@0x49fa98 @Aella_Girl @primalpoly This is particularly galling because he was a high profile participant on the Extropians mailing list as I'm to understand it.
@nosilverv I usually provide citations not to prove my claims, but just as a courtesy for readers who would like to know more about the subjects I'm talking about.
The credibility boost is almost tangential tbh.
@nosilverv This is a common misconception: That citations are about proving your claims. That's clearly not the case. Citations are about providing a genealogy of knowledge, which makes the academic universe much cheaper to navigate than the ad-hoc mess of non-academic sources.
@drethelin What if sometimes there are situations where it's valid to feel bad for everyone involved?
Maslow Hierarchy Updated For 2020: https://t.co/ZkisgfSlvG
@MrBalantine @EricRWeinstein And then lies and says they have been reviewed.
Until you fully accept that you're made of meat you are fundamentally confused about the human condition.
@robinhanson If you can identify the stupidity early, I wonder if it's possible to prevent it?
Something like the same way we prevent people from publicly supporting eugenics: slatestarcodexabridged.com/Social-Censors…
Trump also ties up his opponents resources by making moves that cost him little but his opponents have to spend lots of resources to counter.
Trump needs 5 minutes to sign an order banning trans people in the military, his opponents spend thousands of man hours fighting it. x.com/SpencrGreenber…
His flexibility in getting to choose when and where he wants to fight is what makes him dangerous. His probable weakness is his thin officer corps, he only has so much organizational bandwidth. Mueller freaked him out because it was an engagement he couldn't walk away from.
Hate is the wrong way to model Trump's actions, 'hate' would imply he has stakes invested here. The driving forces behind Trump's malice are often indifference and something to gain. Trump is a minmaxing UFAI from mars, and plays accordingly. People are game tokens to him.
@jack
Just saw this, excellent feature. https://t.co/oeKJBZSCaC
Postrat (n.)
1. Someone who read The Sequences and didn't understand them.
2. One who worships the god of the gaps. https://t.co/LeUb1Zad6v
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