LessWrong.TXT

So happy trails. Anyone who wants to can feel free to create a new LessWrong.txt

This twitter existed to entertain myself and a few friends, and I think I did that.

Stupidity comes at a quick enough pace that you could just follow some and achieve the same effect

Reactionaries are consistently ridiculous, but there's no point in a txt twitter for them.

There's way too much time spent digging through boring discussions of trite articles.

There's room in the world for a LessWrong.txt but I'm not the person to run it.

Okay I think I'm done with this twitter

Some people, I suspect, may object that curiosity is an emotion and is therefore "not rational"

Well, I don't think so either! I'm glad we were able to reach agreement on this, as Aumann's Agreement Theorem requires.

@jokeocracy @LW_txt 'Sexist' is the word you're looking for

Eventual NRxy solutions to social problems are going to have to be stripped of NRx tribal signalling and aesthetics to appeal to normals

Smash Harvard and Columbia. Smash Amerasia and Alger Hiss. Smash Whig history and hate of the past. Smash the Hollywood Ten and FDR.

If you know how to program, learn how to shoot.

If anything, a redistribution from poor people to rich people makes more sense.

Is it "bad" to make fun of people/laugh at their weaknesses?

Is rationality something that can appeal to low-IQ people as well?

When you make fun of someone, you are probably degrading their purity and disrespecting them

"Rational evangelism", which is what CFAR would do if they were Catholic missionaries.

Quoth Jim: "Warmism is Aztec cosmology; bad weather is human caused. Therefore we need a priesthood organizing human sacrifices."

While LessWrong contains a large amount of high-quality material, most of the rationality advice isn't actually targeted at our core audienc