Comments on: Open Thread 3: Threads Are Like Parachutes http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:48:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: blacktrance http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-143279 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:35:18 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-143279 Did the font on SSC just change, or is it my browser?

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]]> By: Braden http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-139828 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:34:26 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-139828 Then he doesn’t need to ask. He can explicitly say, with his link to Patreon, that he discourages donations, especially from people not making a lot of money, and requests donations to a Givewell charity instead. But realistically, I will not bother to increase my charitable giving, and I would be happy to make a recurring donation to subsidize this blog. I would appreciate it if he would allow that.

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]]> By: Adam Strandberg http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-138929 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:56:16 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-138929 Those don’t *quite* map to the trolley problem because they are of the form “subset of group A dies as opposed to all of group A” whereas the trolley problem is “group B dies instead of group A,” which is the part that makes the thought experiment feel problematic.

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]]> By: Ialdabaoth http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-138629 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:31:03 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-138629 I have a decidedly non-D&D4E mechanics system specced out, if you guys are interested.

It also has a pseudorandom AI that’s extremely simple to implement (it was originally designed to be implemented by hand, by smart 12 year olds, without a computer).

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]]> By: Ialdabaoth http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-138628 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:29:02 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-138628 Why WOULDN’T you use procedural generation?

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]]> By: Paul Torek http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-138461 Sun, 24 Aug 2014 13:49:07 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-138461 Somewhat related, I once had the experience of a dream sorta-continuing after I woke up. The dream became a lot less vivid than they usually are, but still I was relieved when it went away. I agree about the sci fi and epistemological horror; I immediately thought that someone (with more talent than me) should write a fiction like this. Only, obviously, the dream doesn’t go away, at all, ever. Or until the end of the story. Or reality goes away. Or they both go away; movie fades to black. Or…

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]]> By: Paul Torek http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-138448 Sun, 24 Aug 2014 12:50:53 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-138448 Seconded. Sortition gives extremists a little more hope than statsism, because there is always a chance that this year’s legislature will be biased in the direction you favor. And when it is, the legislation you favor will pass and everyone will see what a good idea it is.

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]]> By: Andy http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-138423 Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:42:02 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-138423 From a cursory Google search, with very little desire to go deeper, I’d say it’s a thing that’s shown in porn (somehow) and then people try to imitate in meatspace.

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]]> By: Jai http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-138422 Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:26:40 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-138422 I’m a big fan of the Methods of Rationality Podcast, which started off as an HPMOR audiobook but has since branched out into readings of other stories and essays. There’s no original content (yet), and I’m not sure if Eneasz plans to continue after HPMOR is done, but I hope he does.

Rationally Speaking is co-hosted by Julia Galef, president of CFAR, and produces some pretty good discussion. It’s not SSC-level, and I am not a huge fan of Massimo, but it’s about as good as you can get for a rational podcast right now (as far as I know).

Not quite in the same vein, Planet Money is an economics podcast from NPR which I think the SSCosphere would enjoy as light listening. Their series on the creation of a t-shirt is, and I mean this sincerely, fascinating.

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]]> By: anon1 http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/18/open-thread-3-threads-are-like-parachutes/#comment-138313 Sun, 24 Aug 2014 01:42:42 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2647#comment-138313 This isn’t a thing that happens, right? Just a mistake that appears in fanfic?

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