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My stupid fanfic chapter was banned without explanation so I reposted it; somehow it was at +7 when it was deleted and I think silently dele

"If you give George Lukács any taste at all, immediately become the Deathstar." — Old Klingon Proverb   There was no nice way to put it

If you want people to ask you stuff reply to this post with a comment to that effect. More accurately, ask any participating LessWronger a

I figure morality as a topic is popular enough and important enough and related-to-rationality enough to deserve its own thread. Questions

One of the sharpest and most important tools in the LessWrong cognitive toolkit is the idea of going meta, also called seeking whence or jum

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. Don't worry, there won't be future posts like this, so you don't have to delete my LessWro

Here. Long story short, it's an attempt to justify the planetarium hypothesis as a solution to the Fermi paradox. The first half is a disc

Are there any essays anywhere that go in depth about scenarios where AIs become somewhat recursive/general in that they can write functionin

- "Taking Ideas Seriously": Stylistically contemptible, skimpy on any useful details, contributes to norm of pressuring people into double b

[Post redacted 'cuz I unfairly and carelessly misrepresented someone's views (Eliezer's). The messages of this post was: disbelief that alie