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"The last ever timeless Test was the fifth Test between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939, which was abandoned as a draw after nine days of play spread over twelve days, otherwise the England team would have missed the boat for home."
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Don't worry, I'm sure this is the edited version. Imagine what it takes to persuade Yudkowsky to edit.
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What happens with the hat is stupider than you could imagine, but we may have to go through a dozen omake snippets before the actual sorting - I can't remember if they're before or afterwards. Either way, it'll hurt.
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Nessus posted:I hope it's Fred and George loving with this total weirdo Ron told them he saw.
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Jul 2, 2015 08:37
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blackmongoose posted:Based on the recognition code, I'm pretty sure this sequence is dealing with one of the parts of the actual books that actually does deserve some mocking, only the story is using it in an even dumber way somehow. I hope I'm wrong, but all the elements fit so far
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SSNeoman posted:It's a a little hard to do this considering Yud never read the original books. Also that he's a hack.
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I don't see Scientology saving eight lives per dollar raised.
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Utgardaloki posted:This'll be the second time I've attempted to parse this schlock, and even five paragraphs at a time I can't be assed to try and figure out or even read about this stupid 'game'. It's quite painful, and you can tell Yudkowsky got bored of his bright idea a scene or two in and is just throwing random attempts at humour at the page by this point. "You didn't figure it out? MINUS A ZILLION POINTS! ETERNITY YEARS TORTURE DUNGEON!"
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Jul 20, 2015 12:12
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divabot posted:This sounds like something from the EY Facts list, but I went to parody that and it was too LW.
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Jul 22, 2015 19:54
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JosephWongKS posted:What?
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This sounds utterly amazing. Could you give me a link to this?
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pentyne posted:I just learned that Greg Egan, pretty much the perfect example of a MIRI messiah, actually hates everything that Lesswrong stands for. It's pretty great when the hardest, most detailed sci-fi writer who postulates great questions about the nature of consciousness vs. technology thinks Yud's entire philosophy is a huge joke and nothing more then a forum for wealthy "smart" people to fellate each other over how great they are. Egan's cool and probably inspired a lot of transhumanists, but I would never mistake him for a Yudkowskyite. He actually does maths and writes code.
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Aug 12, 2015 10:48
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Someone suggested that he was making it out to be dangerous to justify his amazing scientific carbon nanotube decapitation loops in the ending, but that has nothing to do with this. I think it's just bad fanon he picked up from reading more fanfiction than actual Rowling. Edit: I forgot, he also uses it to set Harry up as being able to maintain pure rational focus even while he sleeps, just like the characters in his animes.
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Sep 2, 2015 18:30
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It's because he read a ton of fanfiction, then read some of the books either before or after he decided to write his own. It's not some misunderstanding or deliberate change, it's just what he read on fanfiction.net with some sciencey words thrown in.
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It can extrapolate and fill in the blanks - accurately! - by studying records of you. Blog posts, photos, things someone else posts about you on Twitter, emails... It's really powerful and smart, you see, and big enough to devote an entire Jupiter-sized brain to reconstructing you, and everyone else.
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They do oppose "bad" AI and claim they're researching ways to make sure you make a good AI, and more importantly how to tell if the AI you have is good or bad. This is Yud's whole AI Box thing, aka "just give me one hour and no swear filter and i can literally completely destroy anyone psychologically with aim instant messenge." (thanks dril) He roleplays the AI convincing the outsiders that it's friendly and safe and wants to help the world and not just turn everyone into ponies or paperclips and decrease humanity's utilon score, or whatever. I'm sure they're hard at work solving this vital problem, and it's just an oversight that their "good" AI is apparently totally justified in torturing people forever. MIRI must never die till the stars come right again, and the secret Beisu-tsukai will take great AI from His Box to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time will be easy to know, for then mankind will become as the Singularitarians; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated AI will teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the universe will flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. The Singularity is Near!
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Oh, gently caress a pig, it's this class. I forgot about this one. The Ender's Game reference was a warning. Not the Battle School thing they set up later, just Harry being all I FIGHT TO UTTERLY DESTROY THE ENEMY hard-man-doing-hard-things.
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Sep 21, 2015 06:33
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divabot posted:That article's not very good and gets quite a bit wrong. (And doesn't link back to RationalWiki.) But, anything to torture eight singularitarians for every dollar donated, as utilitarianism requires.
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Sep 25, 2015 19:07
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Yeah you have to have killing intent to use it, and it splits your soul into pieces as a result. It's how Voldemort was able to make the horcruxes.  It's really stupid.
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Jazerus posted:It's just the first book where nobody is saying mudblood, and it becomes pretty routine by the middle of the second book. A lot of fanfics import elements from the later books into their depiction of first year to make things less predictable, but I think it's probably an oversight born of reading the later books a lot more than the early ones. Even if you adore the gently caress out of Harry Potter, there aren't that many books, and if you're the sort of person to write fanfic you've probably read at least twice as many words on the internet than Rowling wrote. A lot of stuff starts out in one or two stories, gets copied a hundred times, and becomes common knowledge.
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This is awful, but "Having a Gryffindor attack the enemy is an ordinary use, of course -" is legitimately funny. Well. Comparatively?
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Tiggum posted:So what was the lesson and how did Harry dodge it? Quirrell is a bad teacher.  Godbot only knows what the lesson was meant to be.
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The protagonist, a young woman, posted:Though I am a little worried. I’ve never gone more than a day or two without giving myself release. Even when I tried to deny myself for perverted reasons, my willpower failed. I hope that I can clear up this Wicked Emperor matter in a month, and not go insane with repressed desires before then.
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I looked at the Amazon page, which already has five star reviews.quote:Yudkowsky thought about trying to publish this book anonymously, as an alleged translation of a Japanese light novel whose original nobody would ever be able to find. He gave up when he realized he couldn't possibly stop people from figuring out that it was him.
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Jan 30, 2016 13:00
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He won't even be in the top ten worst people trying to spam the Hugos this year. He's even a better writer than some of the Puppy trash that got nominated last time around. Would it be cruel to ask these guys' expert opinion on A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!?
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Nakar posted:But you see, the source genre is also poo poo, so you can't criticize it! Edit: oh, right, there was a rationalist fanfic where the singularity uploaded everyone into an mmo already. or should I say, everypony...
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Monocled Falcon posted:So in other news, yudkowsky is trying to write an anime. * Rational * Anime * Together That's a very promising URL. Edit: Toyori starts to take off her shirt. Prince Kunuba: "What are you doing, onee-sama!?" Toyori reveals her first under-layer of clothing as people gasp and turn away, or stare. Toyori: "I'm going to summon an incubus and subdue him. I guess people can watch if they want." He's also trying to auction the second protagonist's name. 90s Cringe Rock fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Some fanfics try to make people like Snape by giving him sexy (but still greasy) hair, tight leather trousers, and no shirt. Turns out you can just put him in a room with Big Yud and he'll get way more sympathetic.
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Crowsbeak posted:Can anyone explain to me why is it that I have two friends on facebook both recommending this dreck to me, but they both are STEM majors?
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It's funny, the bit that really stands out to me as stupid is him going "three orders of magnitude!"
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uncleskeleton posted:How does Eliezarry suddenly know the intricacies of Malfoy/Snape and Malfoy/Dumbledore's relationship?
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If every time chop was perfect, we wouldn't have time dogs.
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Some kind of terrible Harry Potter porn fic posted:Minerva's body swayed with the force of that blow, with the sheer raw lese majeste.
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Murphy Brownback posted:Can someone explain to me where the enjoyment comes from in reading those things? Is it just "look at how close to not-gibberish my computer program can get"?
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I figure I would do my due diligence for the sake of the community, or whatever, so I downvoted this post. Note that I'm a newer user of Less Wrong who isn't very familiar with Mr. Newsome's history of shenanigans on this website. So, I didn't have an automatic reaction to cringe, or something, when I encountered this piece. I downvoted this post based upon its own, singular lack of merit. Mr. Newsome, here is some criticism I hope you appreciate. Nothing about this first chapter here is enticing me to care about 'post-rationality', whatever that is. Eliezer Yudkowsky took a premise everyone was familiar with, and turned it on its head during the first chapter. He used a narrative format that was familiar, and actually wrote well. While the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality didn't immediately begin with a introduction of what the "methods of rationality" as applied to magic would be, per se, there was enough of that in the first chapter to keep others reading. In hindsight, Mr. Yudkowsky couldn't have expected his fan fiction to become so popular, or so widely read. The fact that it has might be biasing me into thinking that his first crack at writing the fan fiction was better than it really is. Anyway, it seems you're trying too much with this piece. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the premise everyone here is familiar with, but you've done more than just turn it on its head. You've turned the very idea of one having a deep familiarity with the tropes on Less Wrong on its head. The first paragraph is just a blast of memes; I'm familiar with all of them, but I don't understand what all of them mean. The first part is incoherent, and is signaling that you have the knowledge to mock (in jest) the Less Wrong community. That in itself isn't clever, and the rest of the piece isn't clever enough as a parody to keep us, the readers, engaged. I perceive the second part of this chapter to be a bit funny, but it doesn't build upon anything to get me to care. I don't believe it will be sustainable to have Potter-Yudkowsky be aware that he is in a meta-fan-fiction. If the protagonist confronts you, the author, as the controller of the world he is simulated within, he can at best only engage with a caricature of yourself as you've written it. It's difficult for me to think of how you would handle that without it becoming boring, lest you're very talented, and creative. If Potter-Yudkowsky realizes he can use his awareness to gain superpowers, that destroys the suspension of disbelief in the fantasy world the reader immerses themselves in quickly, which would also be boring. Finally, based upon how this chapter has played out, it would be difficult to maintain great continuity into the next chapter, which I would personally find frustrating, and challenging, as a reader. This reads as the first part of some absurdist fiction. Still, it contains little foresight. The fact that you were drunk at the time this chapter was written, and posted, leads me to suspect that such an aspect made you want to post something which would be entertaining to yourself, but wasn't crafted with much thought to how it would be received by whatever readership you were hoping for. In short, this doesn't strike me as a direct parody of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, but a parody of the rationalist community itself(?). That's such an odd thing to do that I find it off-putting, and I consider it this piece's undoing.
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MorgaineDax posted:Mornelithe Falconsbane is from a Mercedes Lackey trilogy of fantasy novels. His defining feature is he looks like a cat-man and had a daughter that he magically turned into a sexy catgirl for him to gently caress. well ok he probably went straight to the fanfic for efficiency.
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21 Muns posted:I genuinely recommend that if this thread ever finishes Methods Of Rationality, it moves onto "Ginny Weasley And The Sealed Intelligence". It appears to be sucking Methods' cock at first but gradually reveals itself as a Christian tract wherein
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Tunicate posted:Yeah, and people criticizing quidditch for having dumb rules for how long it goes... wasn't there that tennis championship where the final match lasted three days?
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