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[Fniff]

No, no. Everyone is Pathos.
Who is Putin.

[TD1]

As everyone is Pathos, the answer is obvious.

Putin is Pathos.

[Toady One]

Some of the posters up there should read the forum guidelines before they go back to reading the site of their choice.  Please work to improve!

[Putnam]

Ahhh, Less Wrong, aka More Crazy. People there once said that torturing a single person for 50 years can be acceptable if it means that a sufficiently high number of people won't get a single dust speck in their eyes.

Even though their utilitarianism can get a bit... Extreme at times, it still a good site with a lot of very interesting articles. Even if you don't agree with all of it, it makes you think and reconsider, which is good!

Their articles are written in a style that's designed to make them incomprehensible due to the excessive amount of words and specific terminology that only they use. There are sites that can explain same things, but much, much better.

In that case, care to show them to me?

http://rationalwiki.org/

Bonus points: Yudkowsky (the guy behind the LessWrong) hates this site, for some inane reason.

Mostly because it straight-up makes shit up about him regularly to make him seem crazier. See: their entire article on Roko's Basilisk.

[Sergarr]

They do seem to exaggerate their reaction a little bit, but surely you are not saying that the whole "Yudkovsky deletes a thread discussing Basilisk" have never happened?

Because it did happen.

[Putnam]

They fabricated his reasons for doing it whole-cloth. It's because Yudkowsky thought Roko was an idiot for sharing something he believed to be a memetic hazard, not because Yudkowsky actually believed it.

Also, I am not saying that. Please do not assume that I am saying things I'm not.

[Sergarr]

They do seem to exaggerate their reaction a little bit, but surely you are not saying that the whole "Yudkovsky deletes a thread discussing Basilisk" have never happened?

Because it did happen.

Also, I am not saying that. Please do not assume that I am saying things I'm not.

Mostly because it straight-up makes shit up about him regularly to make him seem crazier. See: their entire article on Roko's Basilisk.

The set "their entire article of Roko's Basilisk" includes the subset of "Yudkovsky deletes a thread discussing Basilisk". You applied statement "straight-up make shit up about him" to the whole set of "their entire article of Roko's Basilisk" and subsequently to all its subsets, including "Yudkovsky deletes a thread discussing Basilisk".

I agree with you that

It's because Yudkowsky thought Roko was an idiot for sharing something he believed to be a memetic hazard, not because Yudkowsky actually believed it.

but you could've been clearer with your first statement and avoided making a wide statement like that, leaving yourself open to misinterpretations.

[NJW2000]

I've shamelessly advertised for the DF food thread on here already, right?

Well, Alfrodo and NW_Kohaku have replied. And somebody else. Probably.

[FearfulJesuit]

An eagle named "Small Government" landed on the camera tripod and shed a single tear on the film. It's like 90 minutes of distilled /r/forwardsfromgrandma.

[Loud Whispers]

An eagle named "Small Government" landed on the camera tripod and shed a single tear on the film. It's like 90 minutes of distilled /r/forwardsfromgrandma.

FREEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOM

[Frumple]

... there's days I wonder if I shouldn't go spend time on reddit just to have an idea what the hell you folks are talking about.

Then I actually remember what that seems to do to people, and remain firmly avoidant.

[EnigmaticHat]

An eagle named "Small Government" landed on the camera tripod and shed a single tear on the film. It's like 90 minutes of distilled /r/forwardsfromgrandma.

No comments, doesn't display likes versus dislikes.

Good sign for a quality video.

[NJW2000]

What does it do? 

I've heard rumours...

[Loud Whispers]

What does it do? 

I've heard rumours...

Endears you with fetishistic attachment to shadowbanning and epik upboating according to your heart's content; that's not even going into how they take muh meymeys and make them family friendly, as edgy as bowling balls and original as Hollywood

[NJW2000]

Ah.