Comments on: We Are All MsScribe

By: Phil Goetz

Phil Goetz — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:25:06 +0000

Dude, you’re the one who started playing status games with me on LessWrong by publicly accusing me of being somebody who generally fails to update.

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By: AJD

AJD — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:50:53 +0000

(It is worth noting that the assertion made in the headline is only weakly and indirectly supported by the content of the article.)

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 04:56:53 +0000

If anyone wants to do some followup anthropological studies, keep an eye on the Harry Potter quadrant of the internet over the next few weeks.

J.K. Rowling regrets Ron and Hermione’s relationship

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By: MugaSofer

MugaSofer — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:29:04 +0000

Any chance you’ll ever share these advanced social skills you learned during your Five Thousand Years? You’ve been talking about the plight of us low-social-skills … people a lot recently.

Obviously, some of these techniques may be evil. But you have unparalleled access to the rationalist community, so I’m guessing the instrumental value could be high.

Oh, and I’m crazy curious, of course. Hmm, I think I’ll ask this on a few posts in the hope it’ll be seen.

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By: Lightning Round – 2014/01/08 | Free Northerner

Lightning Round – 2014/01/08 | Free Northerner — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:05:37 +0000

[…] Robber’s Cave experiment. Related: A sinking opinion of humanity. […]

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By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:37:00 +0000

No, I got it. I’m saying that the idea of this one woman getting her tentacles into every online community I’ve ever had contact with disturbs me less than the probable reality of there being thousands of people out there that are functionally indistinguishable from her.

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By: Jed

Jed — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:41:36 +0000

They’d kill us all, of course. [The aliens] would sterilize Earth so thoroughly that not even the archaeobacteria would remain. But in the moment before I was vaporized, I would feel like our species had finally been understood.

There are times — not many, but a few — when I catch myself thinking that certain tasks are too important to leave to strangers. And then there’s the Copernican principle: half the time, the aliens will be worse.

Still, I think you’re being too hasty here. Besides the parallels you note, you and this DysScribe person both seem to have gotten started circa 1999. So I’m more inclined to believe that you, she and a lot of other people all happened onto a novel superstimulus at around that time.

Have you read Comeuppance by William Flesch?

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By: Clinton J. Boomer

Clinton J. Boomer — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:16:09 +0000

Oh, wow — yeah, that’s a good point. And scary.

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By: Earthmother

Earthmother — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:03:59 +0000

Am utterly tickled to find a recent reference to this story! It’s my fave internet guilty pleasure, like a train wreck or a disgusting slug I can’t look away from–and the scariest part? Most of the players were grownups, and some were even moms of small children! What were their children getting into while they were all fighting over who Harry Potter should wind up smooching *shudder*

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By: rrp

rrp — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:22:30 +0000

ignore that last sentence… there was something funny in the article I decided not to write about

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