Inline reactions aren't working for me in Firefox 88 on Xubuntu 16.04: when I select text, I can see the smiley icon next to the comment, but it disappears when I mouse over it.
This probably doesn't count as a bug report; while some companies need to support old software for a long time, in this case, I'm just imagining jimrandomh incredulously telling me, "Wait, you're running Firefox 88, on Xenial?! Why? What's wrong with you? You're a terrible person," and me not having any satisfactory reply.
Is hosting images on Imgur (as in the parent) OK? (I recently got an Imgur account, because their latest terms-of-service update says they might delete old anonymously-uploaded images.) I've seen posts by more than one author (including the OP, and some of John Wentworth's posts) host images at https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/, which seems to suggest a designated way to upload images for posts and comments on this website? When I (reluctantly) switch to the Less Wrong docs editor, I don't see it in the selection menu that shows up when you highlight tex—oh, I see now that there's another menu when you click the ¶, which includes image upload. Maybe I'll start to use that (in a dummy LessWrong Docs editor session) instead of Imgur? (I assume no one is going to build a separate image-upload form for Markdown editor users.)
Oh, so that's what "inline" reacts are! This brings me back: back in 2014, I wrote a prototype discussion forum (inspired by a weird sun Tweet) where you could upvote or downvote snippets within a post or comment, which would get correspondingly colored blue or red. The backend was Django, and the substring voting worked by traversing the DOM tree and working out the character indices where the current selection starts and ends. More innocent times! I miss jQuery.
Thanks. We don't seem to have a "That's fair" or "Touché" react (which seems different and weaker than "Changed my mind").
It wasn't a mistake; I was curious to see what it did. (And since I didn't see any comments between when I logged out on Sunday and came back to the site today to see this, I still don't know what "inline" reacts are.) If the team made a mistake by exposing a menu option that you didn't actually want people to use, that's understandable, but you shouldn't call it user error when you don't know that it wasn't completely intentional on the user's part.
We don't need to rely on Huemer's gloss; the distaste for map-territory distinctions and reasoning under uncertainty being too subjective can also be seen in the source material. Consider this line from Atlas Shrugged:
"Dagny", he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He did not say, 'It seems to me', and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion.'"
(Psychologically, Rand is totally in the right in that people very often do use such language to evade responsibility for thinking, but reversed stupidity is not intelligence.)
Barbara Branden's biography The Passion of Ayn Rand also describes this amusing moment from the writing of a planned miniseries adaptation of Atlas Shrugged:
Only once during their association did Ayn's wrath descend on Stirling Silliphant. He had added the word "perhaps" to a statement made by Dagny—and Ayn angrily shouted: "You've destroyed Dagny's character on this page! You've made her qualify her thinking! She always knows what she's doing—she doesn't use words like 'perhaps' or 'maybe.'" The offending word was removed.
I would have expected this post to mention Rand's excellent intuitive grasp of extortion-resistant decision theories!
There was a different look in Mr. Thompson's eyes when he drew back, as if cornered, yet looked straight at Galt and said slowly, "Without me, you couldn't get out of this room, right now."
Galt smiled. "True."
"You wouldn't be able to produce anything. You could be left here to starve."
"True."
"Well, don't you see?" The loudness of homey joviality came back into Mr. Thompson's voice as if the hint given and received were now to be safely evaded by means of humor. "What I've got to offer you is your life."
"It's not yours to offer, Mr. Thompson," said Galt softly.
Something about his voice made Mr. Thompson jerk to glance at him, then jerk faster to look away: Galt's smile seemed almost gentle.
"Now," said Galt, "do you see what I mean when I said that a zero can't hold a mortgage over life? It's I who'd have to grant you that kind of mortgage—and I don't. The removal of a threat is not a payment, the negation of a negative is not a reward, the withdrawal of your armed hoodlums is not an incentive, the offer not to murder me is not a value."
Thanks. The thing that threw me off is that the ingredients label for the coffee-flavored Postum variant includes "natural coffee flavor". I can't quickly find reliable information about what "natural coffee flavor" means: a blog post from another beverage maker reports that natural coffee flavor "may be extracted from a variety of plants like chicory, garlic, and yes, sometimes coffee beans" but that the author "can't guarantee that the flavor company I buy natural coffee flavor from didn't extract one of the flavor compounds from coffee beans". I'm surprised that "natural X flavor" is apparently an acceptable ingredients-list entry if it's not necessarily made from X, and doesn't say what it is made from?
Working now. ("What browser and OS version was that again?" "Look, I procrastinated on upgrades, okay? I'm sorry!" "For our records.")