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Shut up and do the impossible
- russellallen 16y agoI can't quite put my finger on it, but something about the stuff that comes from lesswrong.com feels, well, wrong. Maybe its an air of being too certain about things - a lack of doubt?
- Jach 16y agoThe style of writing shouldn't affect your degree of belief in the actual statements. (Unfortunately for humans it does.) What's your view on certainty? What's your view on humility? What's your view on essay writing? (e.g. Paul Graham's vs. standard school view) What's your view on journalism and reporting? (e.g. he-said-she-said who really knows vs. here's some facts vs. Fox News)
- russellallen 16y agoYour first sentence is sort of what I mean. The medium and the message are not unrelated; the first isn't just one of many possible carriers for the second. This isn't 1910 any more, and any reinvigorated modernism must coherently respond to post-modernism.
- gojomo 16y agoSeems Yudkowsky should really should update the page... http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox ...to reflect the 3-2 record revealed in this essay, rather than the 2-0 record declared on the page, given how much pride is expressed in the results, and the qualitative difference between 'undefeated' and 'winning-more-than-losing'.