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2014 Survey of Effective Altruists
Fronken11y00

Also, what the heck are you talking about?

Wireheading. The term is not a metaphor, and it's not a hypothetical. You can literally stick a wire into someone's pleasure centers and activate them, using only non-groundbreaking neuroscience.

It's been tested on humans, but AFAIK no-one has ever felt compelled to go any further.

(Yeah, seems like it might be evidence. But then, maybe akrasia...)

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Truth: It's Not That Great
Fronken11y00

So if we have a heresy, then exposing it as actually true would be good, because we want to know the truth - hang on.

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2014 Survey of Effective Altruists
Fronken11y20

... can't we rewire brains right now? We just ... don't.

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Rationality Quotes May 2014
Fronken11y00

I think he meant "jesus myth" proponents, who IIRC are ... dubious.

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Self-serving meta: Whoever keeps block-downvoting me, is there some way to negotiate peace?
Fronken11y20

I asked about this a while ago, and apparently the software doesn't support it :/

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Shut up and do the impossible!
Fronken11y30

You're supposed to roleplay a Gatekeeper. There is more than money on the line.

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Publication: the "anti-science" trope is culturally polarizing and makes people distrust scientists
Fronken11y10

Signalling is useful.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 22, chapter 93
Fronken11y10

Historical Flammel also has an official grave site in France (Paris, if I remember correctly); I want to think he lived to his eighties, but it's been a few months since I last read about him.

I recall hearing that "grave" does not contain a body, although I'm not sure how the person who told me that knew. (They were suggesting using him in fiction, much as HPMOR did.)

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Dark Side Epistemology
Fronken11y40

Isn't "Dark Side" approximately "effective, but dangerous"?

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Open Thread for January 8 - 16 2014
Fronken11y30

Well ... isn't it? What others are you thinking of? None spring to my mind.

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