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[Putnam]

Let's see... first thing, IIRC Yudkowsky's stopped going on about Timeless Decision Theory, having replaced it with something else. They also still have a section on the whole Pascal's Wager thing even though AFAIK nobody ever actually seriously considered the basilisk to be an argument to give all your money to Yudkowsky.

[Graknorke]

Rational wiki is, iirc, notorious for being chock full of crazies.

Is this a Poe's Law moment?  I think this is a Poe's Law moment...  They're pretty much the anticrazies.  Or so I gathered.

They are crazy, just in opposition to some other crazy.

[Putnam]

That both claim they're completely anti-crazy, yeah.

FWIW, I've read most of both. I read Yudkowsky's book and most of RW's articles on many things. You may consider me thus extremely crazy, maybe.

RW is a community based around making fun of people who say crazy stuff, so, uh, I'm not sure that's the best place to go if you want faith in humanity anyway. It's basically dedicated to the exact things you ought to be losing faith over, if you have any concept of "faith in humanity" at all.

[Sensei]

Rational wiki is, iirc, notorious for being chock full of crazies.

Is this a Poe's Law moment?  I think this is a Poe's Law moment...  They're pretty much the anticrazies.  Or so I gathered.

They are crazy, just in opposition to some other crazy.

Until someone mention conservapedia, I was somehow thinking rational wiki was "the one that's basically a lot of conservatove ranting by one guy and his goons". Disregard my nonsense.

[Amperzand]

I have not heard of this Conservapedia. Tell me, is it basically some conservative people's beliefs as to science?

[Sensei]

I have not heard of this Conservapedia. Tell me, is it basically some conservative people's beliefs as to science?

No, it would be very unfair to burden conservative people in general with responsibility for conservapedia. It is mostly one crazy guy. It's full of pages like "Best arguments against homosexuality" or "evolution syndrome".

Evolution syndrome is the tendency of some people to insist compulsively that human evolution from animals must somehow be true, and to spend nearly all of their time pushing that belief on others.

[Amperzand]

I see.

...I must read this, for my own amusement.

[RedKing]

Gravity waves confirmed.(?)
I'd link the article but I'm on my phone. It's on several major news outlets but light on detail.

[Arx]

Gravity waves confirmed.(?)
I'd link the article but I'm on my phone. It's on several major news outlets but light on detail.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gravity-waves-black-holes-verify-einstein%E2%80%99s-prediction

[Scoops Novel]

This AskScience thread sums it up pretty well

[origamiscienceguy]

Of course, it's easier to understand when Scott Manley explains it.

[jaked122]

Eh, I watched the press conference.


I waited until I had to leave for class for them to mention a gamma ray burst and I don't know if they mentioned it.


In any case, if we detect one that's imminent, we're not likely to have any options to survive as a species.

[Putnam]

AFAIK the graviational waves would come at nearly the exact same time as the gamma ray burst; the only chance to properly detect a gamma ray burst would be a wash of neutrinos beforehand AFAIK (not because neutrinos go FTL but because light interacts with matter way more than neutrinos due to light being the mediator of the EM force while neutrinos very rarely interact EM-wise at all AFAIK).

[Dorsidwarf]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/8/11392138/spacex-landing-success-falcon-9-rocket-barge-at-sea

SpaceX did it!

I love that the drone ship was the "Of Course I Still Love You"

[Wolfhunter107]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/8/11392138/spacex-landing-success-falcon-9-rocket-barge-at-sea

SpaceX did it!

I love that the drone ship was the "Of Course I Still Love You"

It was pretty darn neat. The barge landing was pretty impressive.