Deuteragonist - Today at 11:09 AM
Rewatch the vid if you don't understand, it's only 8 minutes.
Or you could go and read your bad fanfic.
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 11:26 AM
stfu, you haven't even read it yourself, have you?
Deuteragonist - Today at 11:28 AM
Nope. But I prefer things made by actual academics.
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 11:28 AM
Shut the fuck up you fucking moron.
You haven't even read it and don't know hardly a damn thing about it.
Deuteragonist - Today at 11:29 AM
Who wrote it
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 11:29 AM
Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Deuteragonist - Today at 11:33 AM
He has no education
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 11:33 AM
How the hell do you know that?
Deuteragonist - Today at 11:34 AM
Wikipedia
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 11:34 AM
Send me this wikipedia link.
Deuteragonist - Today at 11:34 AM
Look it up nerd
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 11:36 AM
Okay, so what if he doesn't have an educated background?
That doesn't change the fact that he's really fucking smart.
Deuteragonist - Today at 11:43 AM
Sure
Fanfiction is always a sign of high IQ
And not going to school
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 11:44 AM
Fuck you, Nolan.
Stop being a pretentious little bitch.
Deuteragonist - Today at 11:44 AM
I'm not being pretentious but whatever.
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 11:44 AM
Writing fanfiction does not make you stupid.
Also, you don't need to go to high levels of school if you were born a genius.
THe purpose of going to school is to learn.
But if you already know everything you need/want, you don't need to go to school.
Besides, many teachers themselves are flawed.
Not all of them, of course, but many of them are.(edited)
Homeschool exists, and maybe Eliezer decided to teach himself?
Such things exist, you know.
Also, don't ignore the fact that he co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.(edited)
What about fanfiction is so stupid, huh?(edited)
Deuteragonist - Today at 12:22 PM
It's entirety
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:04 PM
Also the way you phrased some of that was borderline retarded.
You can be born with high IQ but you aren't born knowing anything.
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:26 PM
Sorry for resorting to insults earlier.
Anyway.
Let's start from the top.
No, not its entirety. What specifically about fanfiction is stupid.(edited)
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:28 PM
Dumb. Unfaithful. Cringe, distorting of the source.
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:30 PM
Dumb is undescriptive. Unfaithful? You can still be faithful to the story they wrote while adding your own twist. Cringe is just you. Distorting of the source, well, sometimes distortions are improvements.
Wouldn't you agree?
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:32 PM
I'm not a huge fan of the original Harry Potter. I'm almost positive that immediately after finishing it JK became as dumb as she is today. But what you are telling me is so great seems like a complete departure from the original, and is extremely pretentious and full of rubbish.
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:33 PM
Uh, that's not an argument.
You're just repeating yourself but with more words.
Can you really say something is pretentious without knowing much about it?
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:34 PM
Send me a paragraph
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:34 PM
Every inch of wall space is covered by a bookcase. Each bookcase has six shelves, going almost to the ceiling. Some bookshelves are stacked to the brim with hardback books: science, maths, history, and everything else. Other shelves have two layers of paperback science fiction, with the back layer of books propped up on old tissue boxes or lengths of wood, so that you can see the back layer of books above the books in front. And it still isn't enough. Books are overflowing onto the tables and the sofas and making little heaps under the windows.
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:37 PM
You are holding back. Send me the one you sent before
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:37 PM
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about.(edited)
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:39 PM
Give me a paragraph with the word Rationality in it
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:39 PM
Why?
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:40 PM
So I can tear it to shreds
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:40 PM
Why would having the word Rationality constitute you being able to tear it to shreds?
That doesn't make sense.
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:40 PM
Just do it you fat lazy nerd
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:40 PM
No.
Not without knowing why first.
I'm not doing something that doesn't make sense.
Like, for example.
Let's say I did give you a paragraph with the word "Rationality" in it.
"Rationality can be used to solve problems through calculating the probability of events. That, Dumbledore, is why I believe the confundus charm can be used in this way." As he said this, Harry looked to his wand.
(edited)
How would you tear this into shreds, Nolan?
Deuteragonist - Today at 1:50 PM
sigh
Coward
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 1:52 PM
No, I'm not being a coward. I'm trying to figure out why you want me to send you a paragraph specifically with the word Rationality in it.(edited)
Deuteragonist - Today at 2:00 PM
Because the root of the pretentious is there.
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 2:01 PM
How do you know that?
Deuteragonist - Today at 2:01 PM
Alex
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 2:01 PM
Answer my question.
Actually, what.
Deuteragonist - Today at 2:02 PM
Nothing is more pretentious than "the study of rationality"
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 2:02 PM
That's not an argument, you're just repeating yourself again.
Deuteragonist - Today at 2:04 PM
Ok
Alex Cart, WA 1854 Schooner Ln - Today at 2:06 PM
Harry's rationalist skills began to boot up again. "Professor McGonagall, how sure are you of your observations, and what alternative explanations could there also be?"
Here, Nolan. Here's your paragraph.
Deuteragonist - Today at 2:21 PM
Gay