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Sorry, Gwern, I may be slandering you, but I thought I noticed it long before that (I've been reading, despite my silence). Another thing I have accused you of, in my head, is a failure to appropriately apply a multiple test correction when doing some data exploration for trends in the less wrong survey. Again, I may have you misidentified. Such behavior is striking, if true, since it seems to me one of the most basic complaints Less Wrong has about science (somewhat incorrectly).
Edited: Gwern is right (on my misremembering). Either I was skimming and didn't notice Gwern was quoting or I just mixed corrector with corrected.... (read more)
This is going to be yet another horrible post. I just go meta and personal. Sorry.
I don't understand how this thread (and a few others like it) on stats can happen; in particular, your second point (re: the basic mistake). It is the single solitary thing any person who knows any stats at all knows. Am I wrong? Maybe 'knows' meaning 'understands'. I seem to recall the same error made by Gwern (and pointed out). I mean the system works in the sense that these comments get upvoted, but it is like. . . people having strong technical opinions with very high... (read more)
I'll backtrack from "last post" for 6 months to last conversation for 6 months. Viliam, you're a reasonably upvoted dude. You seem pretty normal for these parts. Exactly how annoyed do I get to be that your response to me is dumb? Isn't the commitment to some aspects of rationality exemplified by my complete inability to restrain my annoyance with your being an idiot of some value? Yes, yes, I could be better still.
Again, I think your response is very typically LessWrongian: Wordy, vacant, stupid, irrational, over-confident with weaseliness to pretend otherwise, etc, etc. Do I get downvoted for telling you you're being an idiot... (read more)
I'm not surprised at being downvoted, and I don't mean that in the usual defensive way (i.e., "I have such a good model of you it predicts your behaviour and negative reaction is stupid; I'm superior, yadda yada").
My behavior is worthy of being downvoted and some degree of annoyance with me is perfectly reasonable, appropriate, and likeable. Trying to extrapolate my annoyance from my behavior is misleading since I am not responding to what is irritating me and my (hidden specific) annoyance manifests as general irritability. I would say an appropriate criticism of me (which I have attempted to highlight when being critical) is the degree to... (read more)
There's a number of comments on this post where people wrongly think they know why someone is in disagreement with them:
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/d9b/link_rsa_animate_extremely_entertaining/6wbn http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/d9b/link_rsa_animate_extremely_entertaining/6wbc http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/d9b/link_rsa_animate_extremely_entertaining/6w97
Arguably others. The other material is either empty (minus humor) or simply correction of these sorts of trivial errors. I think this is very common on LessWrong.
One of my remaining interests in this place is discovering why I find you all pretty unlikeable. This is a change in my viewpoint since I started actually becoming familiar with the joint and is also pretty surprising since I overlap philosophically in ways that usually make me fond of people. I'd say my reaction to this place is roughly what I... (read more)
Upvoted to +6 currently. Funny. I guess your answers are what humility and false humility map to if you're an idiot of the type LessWrongians appear to be. That is, when people are being humble (in not posting) you could say they're just afraid of not signalling high standards if they implied more people wanted to read, etc (shmushing your explanations into one). On one's own blog, onus is on the reader who knowingly visited. Wouldn't apply to true idiot LessWrongians; i.e., I expect if you did it, it would be about something simple like maintaining control.
Not just going meta for the sake of it: I assert you have not sufficiently thought throught the implications of promoting that sort of non-openness publicly on the board. Perhaps you could PM jsavaltier.
I'm lying, of course. But interesting to register points of strongest divergence between LW and conventional morality (JenniferRM's post, I mean; jsalvatier's is fine and interesting).
"Indeed, I cannot think of any high school scholarship that is used primarily to collect information for the sponsoring organization (is this really the case?). However, there is good reason for this – no one else is interested in reaching the same group of high school students. SI is the only organization I know of who wants to reach high school students for their research group."
I find this place persistently surprising, which is nice. Try to imagine what you would think if a religious organization did this and how you would feel. It's alright to hold a scholarship to encourage kids to be interested in a topic; not so to garner information for your own purposes, unless that is incredibly clear upfront. Very Gwernian.
It's interesting this post is being upvoted. It reads like jabber to me. I have little idea what it is trying to argue. Stuff like:
"It's likely that when the protein complex undergoes autophosphorylation, other changes occur in the cell as well. If this led to changes in the cell's epigenome, which is very common, and the structure of the epigenome is retained by the cryopreservation, then the cell's epigenome could allow reverse inference of the state of its ion channels. "
Is either meaningless or flawed, probably both. The whold post reminds me of the idea on LessWrong that one might as well just assume Omega will reconstruct you based on trace evidence in the physical world.
Gwern, I should be able to say that I appreciate the time you took to respond (which is snarky enough), but I am not able to do so. You can't trust that your response to me is inappropriate and I can't find any reason to invest myself in proving your response is inappropriate. I'll agree my comment to you was somewhat inappropriate and while turnabout is fair play (and first provocation warrants an added response), it is not helpful here (whether deliberate or not). Separate from that, I disagree with you (your response is,historically, how people have managed to be wrong a lot). I'll retire once more.
I believe it was suggested to me when I first asked the potential value of this place that they could help me with my math.