The axis lines on the probability chart seem broken - there are <0 and >1 probabilities.
I have 5/12 virtues but one of them is the virtue of perfectionism so I can't stop thinking about the other 7.
wow I wouldn't have expected LessWrongers' long-suppressed sexual instincts to be crypto scams - no, you know what, if anyone got turned on by crypto scams it would probably be us.
(more seriously: the link is broken.)
Some of the memes you referenced do seem "cringe" to me, but people have different senses of humor. I'm not sure what the issue is with someone posting memes they personally find funny.
If you disagree with the point that the memes are making, that's different, but can you give an example of something in one of the memes she posted that you thought was invalid reasoning? You called her content "dark arts tactics" and said:
"It feels like it is trying to convince me of something rather than make me smarter about something. It feels like it is trying to convey feelings at me rather than facts."
but you've only explained how it's making you feel instead of what message it's conveying.
Huh. I first heard of Greg Egan in the context of Eliezer mentioning him as a SF writer who he liked, iirc. Kind of ironic he ended up here.
What's the b word?
I still think it was an interesting concept, but I'm not sure how deserving of praise this is since I never actually got beyond organizing two games.
He said it was him on Joe Rogan's podcast.
1you find some pretty ironic things when rereading 17-year-old blog posts, but this one takes the cake.
I don't see why it's good to punish people. If you threaten to punish me if I do a particular thing, I'll just get upset that you might hurt me and likely refuse to interact with you at all. But you do sometimes have to hurt someone's reputation as a side effect of some other necessary action, like warning other people that they're untrustworthy.