In an alternate timeline there's a sect of neo-Fermians who base their epistemology on Fermi estimates.
@St_Rev @tipsfromkatee @meaningness So, uh, something most people don't realize about LW. Did you know you can just *post* articles?
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@St_Rev@tipsfromkatee@Meaningness And if they're good they'll be upvoted and people will talk about them? -
@St_Rev@tipsfromkatee@Meaningness And then if you do this sufficiently often, that becomes part of "what the site is about"? - 3 more replies
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@slatestarcodex@St_Rev@tipsfromkatee Yes, that’s plausibly the best way to contribute! I did know that, and have considered it...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@slatestarcodex@St_Rev@tipsfromkatee I got off on the wrong foot with this whole thing with a meta-level thinking-out-loud blog post >Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@slatestarcodex@St_Rev@tipsfromkatee … about *whether* discussing Bayes/LW would be useful, with little context about why I would, >Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@slatestarcodex@St_Rev@tipsfromkatee … or what I would say if I did. But clearly the meta level can’t be separated from the object level >Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@slatestarcodex@St_Rev@tipsfromkatee > in this discussion, so mostly all I’ve done is create confusion and annoyance, which I regret…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@slatestarcodex@St_Rev@tipsfromkatee … and the question of whether to actually have the object-level discussion is still unresolved.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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