Honestly if I knew the threat of "doxing" (for someone who objectively already is doxed, his real name is a well known open secret) were a big enough deal to make Scott Alexander log off and shut up forever I probably should've done it years ago
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Or I should've specifically done it when he wrote that "Kolmogorov complexity" post jerking off about how he sees himself as a member of a secret society who know the real truth about the human race (eugenics) who's infiltrated polite society
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Replying to @arthur_affect
... With morbid curiosity, wtf is the argument involving K complexity and "real truth"?
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It's this stupid interminable intensely self-regarding piece of fanfic about living in am oppressive Orwellian society that will not allow you to speak certain scientific truths for ideological reasons So you have to find a way to discuss these things in code
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Yeah, i'm pretty sure (having read the post, albeit awhile back) that Scott Alexander doesn't actually understand K-complexity and is just using it as a suitably LW-esque metaphor.
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He does that with every goddamn thing
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It's one of the most obnoxious shticks of Bay Area rationalism Use a metaphor to do the opposite of what a metaphor should do and make a simple idea *more complicated* so it sounds cooler and gets you clicks
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Like Eliezer Yudkowsky's obnoxious habit of saying shit like "The Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs" to mean groups getting more extreme in their opinions as time passes and moderate members lose interest
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wait what evaporates as it cools
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"Evaporative cooling" isn't about things evaporate AS they cool; it's the phenomenon where you can lower a local temperature significantly below ambient temp by causing water to evaporate, because water absorbs a lot of heat in order to evaporate.
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EY's interpretation of how this works as "the hottest molecules carry the heat away with them as they evaporate" is... not correct I mean whatever, I'm not a physicist either, but the core metaphor he's relying on here is this really bad oversimplification
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I mean, i'm not a physicist either, but the molecules don't CARRY the … heat … what? WHAT? Heat is not a THING! You can't CARRY it?
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The heat gets ABSORBED as energy that fuels the evaporative process. And even THAT's an oversimplification. But … just … WHAT? i apparently never read that one, or noped out because it was too fucking stupid for me.
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