| Post & message count |
Date |
Author |
Title or First Words |
| Open Discussion (2021) (119) |
2021/04/22 |
jordancurve |
Another hyperthreading test |
| Politics Discussion (466) |
2021/04/22 |
Anonymous |
https://mobile.twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1385022505367314435
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| Deplatforming and Fraud (475) |
2021/04/22 |
Anonymous |
https://twitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1384688159229980673
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| David Deutsch Lied About Me (6) |
2021/04/21 |
curi |
#7 Forgot the link: https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1382655391402713088 |
| Andy B Harassment Continues (57) |
2021/04/21 |
Anonymous |
andy's main twitter account was created april 2010. he renamed it and deleted almost all his tweets. |
| Alisa Discussion (288) |
2021/04/21 |
Alisa |
380 on 1-1 underground section in SMB1 |
| curi's Microblogging (205) |
2021/04/20 |
curi |
I liked reading excerpts from Carnegie's autobiography:
https://rootsofprogress.org/andrew-carnegie-autobiography |
| New Community Site Planning Update (7) |
2021/04/19 |
curi |
I thought of a problem. I'll want to post all my stuff in Unbounded. But people will want to reply in Casual. And I want people to be able to make casual comments about my articles, give feedback, etc. But then they'll have to start a new thread in Ca |
| Correspondence Theory of Truth (1) |
2021/04/19 |
Anonymous |
Tarksi was wrong. Statements don't correspond directly with the facts. Statements correspond, imperfectly, with abstractions. Abstractions correspond with the facts. Deutsch has talked about this. |
| New Community Website Project (66) |
2021/04/18 |
curi |
Probably going to go with forum software that someone else already made. Taking recommendations if you know something you think would be particularly good. Discourse is the leading candidate atm so if you can say "X is better than Discourse at Y" that |
| Alan Discussion (56) |
2021/04/18 |
curi |
FYI on my iPhone at https://conjecturesandrefutations.com/2021/04/17/confusion-about-computation-and-brains/
the blockquote is indicated by italics with no other indicator of quoting, and the italics within the blockquote are changed to non-italics |
| Comments on Behavioral Genetics Lecture (7) |
2021/04/14 |
Anne B |
Oops. Formatting error on my part on the link. |
| David Deutsch's Responsibility for Harassment (17) |
2021/04/13 |
Anonymous |
Upper Echelon Gamers video: [The Criminals Invading Esports - 1XBET and the ESL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9O0Eyq5yoA)
Why would esports leagues partner with criminals? What the hell is wrong with them? Reminiscent of CritRats partnering wit |
| Errors Merit Post-Mortems (9) |
2021/04/12 |
curi |
Decent post-mortem example:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WKzGhKbtJAXntXEdB/sometimes-it-can-take-a-while-to-notice-confusion
also i think some of their covid precautions were high-effort optimization of non-bottlenecks which led them to be bi |
| Should I Facecam? (13) |
2021/04/11 |
curi |
the main point of cam is to provide more info that could be useful to ppl. i think ppl should want it and could benefit, just like with many other things they mostly use poorly. i doubt ppl will pay enough (including non-money) for it to be worth the |
| New Community Website: Features and Tech (219) |
2021/04/11 |
curi |
Trying more to find something that someone else already made that could work. Anyone want to research that or make recommendations? That'd be helpful, thanks. |
| Philosophy First (3) |
2021/04/08 |
Anonymous |
https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1379972861629108225
> This phenomenon also well known in high performance computing: Given a limited hardware budget you may be able to "start later to finish sooner".
The "start later to finish sooner" quote |
| FI Basecamp Update (1) |
2021/04/07 |
curi |
Activity: gigahurt Videos |
| Analyzing BoI Videos (11) |
2021/04/06 |
curi |
Part 7 is posted. I'm probably skipping 2 days before part 8. |
| Learning Skills Is Non-Linear (3) |
2021/04/06 |
Anonymous |
> And you probably shouldn’t learn to code and try to switch careers when you’re 90.
I tried to learn coding at 40 and I failed. I hate my job. |
| Making Idea Trees (7) |
2021/04/04 |
Alisa |
#20326
> I guess there might also be trees where understanding all of a node's children, plus some background knowledge, is *sufficient* for understanding the node itself.
That isn't quite what I want to say. What I want to say is that there cou |
| Max Microblogging (274) |
2021/04/04 |
Max |
#20334 Thx.
For anyone reading this after the fact: [I replied](https://curi.us/2417-learning-skills-is-non-linear#1) to curi's post, and if there's more discussion specific to that topic it'll probably be under that thread. |
| Induction and AZ Vax Blood Clots (1) |
2021/04/04 |
Anonymous |
Thank you. |
| Was David Deutsch Using Me to Help with BoI? (2) |
2021/04/04 |
curi |
DD's first response to my BoI comments, in 2004 |
| Discussion About Inferential Distance (11) |
2021/03/30 |
curi |
> How much math knowledge do you think is necessary to learn CR?
it's not necessary. there are many ways to approach CR. math is useful to a bunch of ways but not all. but i think doing CR without e.g. arithmetic is unrealistic and generally there |