So, I were looking at this, and then suddenly this thing happened.
EDIT:
New version! I updated the link above to it as well. Added LOADS and LOADS of new content, although I'm not entirely sure if it's actually more fun (my guess is there's more total fun due to varity, but that it's more diluted).
I ended up working on this basically the entire day to day, and implemented practically all my ideas I have so far, except for some grammar issues that'd require disproportionately much work. So unless there are loads of suggestions or my brain comes up with lots of new ideas over the next few days, this may be the last version in a while and I may call it beta and ask for spell-check. Still alpha as of writing this thou.
Since there were some close calls already, I'll restate this explicitly: I'd be easier for everyone if there weren't any forks for at least a few more days, even ones just for spell-checking. After that/I move this to beta feel more than free to do whatever you want.
Thanks to everyone who commented! ^_^
old Source, old version, latest source
Credits: http://lesswrong.com/lw/d2w/cards_against_rationality/ , http://lesswrong.com/lw/9ki/shit_rationalists_say/ , various people commenting on this article with suggestions, random people on the bay12 forums that helped me with the engine this is a descendent from ages ago.
OK, I'm impressed.
I saw this comment in Top Comments before reading the top-level post, and I thought the quote was by a human (as a reply to someone who was offended by the homo hypocritus explanation of something).
The upvotes are flowing freely in this thread, because we're all brimming with positive affect! Yay!
I don't find it to be an insult of Robin at all. (And don't get me started about the scary things that page shows.)
That's actually not a terrible way to put it.
The thing knows its audience.
Well, it can already impersonate Will_Newsome, so passing the Turing test should not be that far off.
Also, some of the local big cheeses are allergic to the four-letter word starting with cu and ending with t, consider replacing.
everyone needs to stop being such a cunt about it.
You're certainly sounding curt today. How rude.
One of the few cases where it's a good idea to open a box containing death.
sounds legit to me!
I made a non-typo'd version if anyone is interested. Here it is: http://joshua-david.net/php/cards_against_rationality.php.
If anyone wants the php source code that made it, that's here: http://joshua-david.net/php/cards_against_rationality.php.php.
Because I know LW is big on meta-anything, the source code for that source code can be found here: http://joshua-david.net/php/cards_against_rationality.php.php.php.
Some choice ones:
tip: put ?n=5 at the end for 5 of them
Rule 34:
Nice neg.
Make it stop, make it stop.
Um...
That is some sweet theology.
That is a really pithy rebuttal to solipsism. It's also what I would say to people if I were a solipsist.
So Zen.
So bloody Zen.
That's... that's a wee bit evil, isn't it?
#trufax
Not that obvious.
In the new version of Newcomb's problem, you have to choose between a box containing LessWrong and a box containing physics.
ouch.
Hmmm it seems we now have the technology to build an automated LessWrong poster. Merely program the bot to comment in heavy traffic threads where it sure to be noticed then after a fixed amount of time delete any comments that get less than 1 karma.
Man and machine, wisdom extreme!
I hereby request that the technology be named The Automated Teacher's Password Guesser, because your comment about the higher frequency of such comments was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.
Of course, it's practically a solved machine learning problem to also use those comments to learn what sorts of comments get downvoted and improve the bot.
If someone makes a really well-optimized version of Armok's bot that pays attention to key words in comments and replies somewhat intelligently, I'll give them the Will_Newsome LessWrong account to use for that purpose.
Awesome, that'll go great alongside the "Ban comments by Will Newsome" bot we provide Alicorn!
"The coherent extrapolated volition of Eliezer Yudowsky is the mind-killer."
Well crap.
I would say that this makes sense about as often as the grad students in my philosophy department make sense, with only a few more spelling mistakes.
Uh-oh.
I think this is actually true.
I can handle humanity, because I am already enduring it.
Btw, the spelling errors were really bothering me, so I opened the JS and corrected it all. (I'd post it here, but it says "comment too long" and would probably do the same for a PM.)
Edit: I put it on pastebin for 24 hours. Thanks Vladimir_Nesov!
"Why did my meta-contrarianism get downvoted?"
"I'm an aspiring Eliezer Yudkowsky."
"You make a compelling argument for guessing the teacher's password."
"We have encountered aliens who communicate through the obvious schelling point."
"You can't fit a sheep into a Lukeprog's love life."
"The thirteenth virtue of rationality is my karma score."
"You have no idea how big the set of all possible fetishes is."
"An improperly-programmed AI might tile the universe with the Stanford prison experiment."
"Instrumental rationality is the art of winning at nootropics."
"The obvious schelling point is highly correlated with the least convenient possible world."
"You have no idea how big moldbuggery is. "
"The latest hot fanfic: updating and the Methods of meta-contrarianism."
"What is true is already so. negging doesn't make it worse."
Arguably better than the average LessWrong poster.
New pick-up line:
A Kool-aidey pair:
This one's for Clippy:
What ethical injuctions are for:
Getting rid of groupies:
Too late:
Aaaand this is as meta as it could be... is it?
The outside view is what the Bayesian Conspiracy feels like from the inside.
That's an actual useful truth we ought to keep in mind. Huh.
Almost true by definition?
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As well as a much-loved pastime.
The twenty fourth virtue of rationality is "avoid a sex maxemizer at any cost"
Hanson, or Yudkowsky? Tough choice.
I'm very impressed with the high proportion of results that turn out to be funny. I'm not sure whether this says something about your skill at programming the generater, about LW, or both.
Think it mainly says something about the nature of humour and human language actually. Or possibly my skill at coming up with the phrase templates- The actual logic is just iterated find-replace, and I've used the same engine earlier on a widely different subject with similar results.
Wow.
Edit: and this counterexample, immediately after.
Edit #2: Aargh.
I think I can maybe get behind this.
Place your bets ladies and gentlemen.
That's slightly disturbing.
No? Damn.
I don't know if I want to read that argument or not.
Best vulnerability ever.
My first one:
Sounds like a "Chuck Norris Fact".
Thanks for making this!
Take a wild guess.
It is FOOMing. Run for your lives.
Dammit, Spock.
But you just said...
Okay. I'm done here.
There's a Javascript library by Andrew Plotkin for this sort of thing that handles 'a/an' and capitalization and leaves your code less repetitive, etc.
In practice, true.
Amusing.
Clippy.
My second favorite one.
I do not know Luke in any way, and that's not my orientation, but I lol'd.
Inside the Blind Idiot God Evolution's pineal gland is not an immortal soul, but the truth.
I love this thing, we should include it as a site feature next to the comment button and compare user ratings on randomly generated posts to the rest.
I love it!
How long can they get?
Does this mean that there is no physics in the truth-box? That's an awesome box! I think I'm more excited about the box than what is inside it! Do I get to keep the box?
So, scope insensitivity?
Weeee...
Them's fightin' words, Random Profound Deep Wisdom Generator!
"Sex is highly correlated with inferential gap."
"Wait, wait, shock level seven is turning into Omega's model of Harry Potter?"
"That which can be destroyed by the world of My little old master: Friendship is clopfic should be."
"The set of all possible fetishes is what timeless Edward Cullen feels like from the inside."
ok so far...
uh oh...
Well I guess we're screwed.
Nah, we just have to be careful to include a space in our meetups.
"The map is not the territory."
"Robin Hanson is vulnerable to death."
Self-delusion or accurate beliefs? We all can empathize with this choice.
The twenty fourth virtue of rationality is "Relinquish the Way".
Of course he is!
hrm...
I guess that one works.
The affective death spiral is isomorphic to this thread.
As one of the creators of Cards Against Rationality, I have to say ... glad you all enjoy it enough to code it up. :)
"An improperly-programmed AI might tile the universe with rationalist clopfic."
"Affective death spirals will kill you because you are made of the Bayesian Conspiracy that it could use for something else."
In the new version of Newcomb's problem, you have to choose between a box containing politics and a box containing death
The twenty threeth virtue of rationality is "always obey the guiding inluence of Pinkie Pie"
politics is the art of winning at the utility function of God
The fifty fourth virtue of rationality is "avoid counterfactual truth at any cost"
"a sex maximizer is isomorpic to LessWrong" is obviusly false
that which can be destroyed by a million dollars should be
The forty twoth virtue of rationality is "always obey... (read more)
Hello, Data.
... ... ... ... it's onto him.
"Absence of the sanity waterline is evidence of improperly-programmed Aubrey de Grey."
Very nearly my thoughts exactly...
"This may sound a bit crazy right now, but hear me out: the Least Convenient Possible World is isomorpic to quantum infanticide."
"Humanity is an aspiring matrochika brain."
"That which can be destroyed by a timeless upload of Pinkie Pie should be."
Oh my god this was even better
I'm an aspiring horcrux.
Given that I wrote this Orion's Arm idea as an exploration of one possible lifestyle involving multiple instantiations of a single individual... I find that I am well pleased.
LessWrong is not the territory.
Seems Legit
Happy to hear it!
Is it bad that I almost instantly find a way to make sense of nearly all of these? For example:
Sounds like a reference to Hofstadter's musings on reductive versus holistic descriptions of reality in Godel, Escher, Bach, when he used an anthill as an example.
More seed phrases
I <3 you.
Edit: Some more (some spelling corrections):
Nice.
...I don't like this game anymore :(
Hmmm... makes sense...
Seems sensible enough.
Nevermind.
Makes sense.
Truth is the mind-killer.
I got
Which made me go, "Well... yes."
Well, it's true.
Also, This is way smarter than than the Deepak Chopra quote generator.
Probably should be in the Open thread instead but I like this thing
This is...what? I think my brain broke or else it went out to have a good laugh
I am going to waste a lot of time on this thing if I don't stop myself right now.
proceeds to stop
Here are some favorites I wanted to share. I think the simplest ones are best -- they have a real Zen quality to them!
That which can be destroyed by awesome hugging should be.
A/an human is vulnerable to causal hugging.
I am running on universal warm fuzzies.
A/an upload of Ben Goertzel would tile the universe with sex.
Friendship is highly correlated with Friendly you.
Humanity is the mind-killer.
The truth is highly correlated with I.
The map is highly correlated with hypotheses.
The territory is not the territory.
There are no rationalists.
Thanks for making this! It's motivated me to copy and play around with your code, which I haven't actually done with code before and which turns out to be insanely low hanging fruit for learning. (Which you already knew, but I didn't.)
Sounds deep, bro.
Instrumental stupidity is the art of winning at Pinkie Pie's utility function.
Grammar is not a strange loop through subordinate clauses dammit. ><
The new one gets a lot more variety, but hits on clever stuff with a lower frequency. I ran it for a while and only got a few worth sharing:
Less Wrong is not a cult so long as our meetups don't include an upload of Quieralmort.
Legal term?
From the new one:
Halt. Melt. Catch fire. Laugh.
Whoa.
Ouch.
I think a field type came in wrong here.
An important reminder.
Huh....
True.
Please keep them, the incongruity of it all adds to the charm.
Nice nice nice.
Poor Robin Hanson :P
He came to a DC meetup once.
So... crap.
Some favorites I wanted to share. I think the simplest ones are best -- they have a real Zen master quality to them!
That which can be destroyed by awesome hugging should be.
A/an human is vulnerable to causal hugging.
I am running on universal warm fuzzies.
A/an upload of Ben Goertzel would tile the universe with sex.
Friendship is highly correlated with Friendly you.
Humanity is the mind-killer.
The truth is highly correlated with I.
The map is highly correlated with hypotheses.
The territory is not the territory.
There are no rationalists.
Found wisdom?
In the new version of Newcomb's problem, you have to choose between a box containing quantum politics and a box containing Eliezer Yudowsky
I still aleve that In an Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma, Robin Hanson beats Eliezer Yudowsky
Unfriendly God is isomorpic to sex if and only if Pinkie Pie is isomorpic to humanity if and only if you are an aspiearing human