Indexical Banana

@literalbanana

when the Simulators gave up pretending not to exist they uplifted the bananas first. if you are reading this be aware that words are fake

Joined December 2015

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    Jan 29

    every seemingly innocent fragment of information is secretly plotting how to escape its context and cause trouble

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    Jan 29
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    Jan 29

    🆕 Introduction page for Part I of my meta-rationality book. This Part explains how rationalism—the theory that formal rationality can be fully adequate—fails when it encounters nebulosity.

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    Jan 28

    i totally didn't believe this, so i wrote a small script to test it, and 'lo --

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    Jan 27

    Jubal called out, "That house on the hilltop--can you see what color they've painted it?" Anne looked, then answered, "It's white on this side."

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  7. Jan 27

    a blog post written by a literal banana explaining indexicality

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  8. Jan 27

    a big little idea called indexicality

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    Jan 27

    Horses are reminded not to overstep boundaries with farriers who are just trying to do their job. (Part two)

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    Jan 26

    Deference Falsification cascades are one of the more common kinds of preference falsification cascades

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  11. Jan 25

    not the sharpest shard of glass in the dumpster fire

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  12. Jan 25

    The wholesomecow is fast replacing the lolcow.

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    Jan 25

    We get it analytic philosophers: things aren't exactly like other things

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    Jan 25

    Our results should be sober. Our methods should be drunk.

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    "I was in an email group with an old Nobel laureate who always wrote in all caps. I suggested he switch to all lowercase so he did not appear to be shouting. He replied BUT I AM SHOUTING"

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    “The more stories one has available to adapt into usefulness, the more inventive one can be.” —Schank

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  17. Jan 23

    Are people silly for not having coherent, non-contradictory beliefs, or is it silly to expect intelligent people to have global, universal, coherent beliefs about messy reality?

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  18. Jan 22

    because I got a dope posse, you got a buncha dudes

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  19. Jan 21

    thinking about all the information the case studies convey that a “how to search the internet” list of rules or tips wouldn’t convey

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  20. Jan 21

    The case against doing things (from Civilization, Clive Bell, 1928 - cf. Huemer’s In Praise of Passivity, 2012 )

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