Less Wrong: Difference between revisions

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* [[Concepts Are Cheap]]: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/ Applause Lights].

* [[Deus Est Machina]]: Yudkowsky and some other members of Less Wrong from the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence are working on making one. [[The Singularity|Singularity]] is eagerly awaited.

* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Most often [[Averted Trope]], but there may be some who act like the [[Jerkass]] variety. Religion is rarely a topic of discussion, as [http://lesswrong.com/lw/1e/raising_the_sanity_waterline/ the social baseline is strongly atheist] (though a spirited early-2011 thread [http://lesswrong.com/lw/3uj/theists_are_wrong_is_theism/ briefly brought it up]).

* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Most often [[Averted Trope|averted]], but there may be some who act like the [[Jerkass]] variety. Religion is rarely a topic of discussion, as [http://lesswrong.com/lw/1e/raising_the_sanity_waterline/ the social baseline is strongly atheist] (though a spirited early-2011 thread [http://lesswrong.com/lw/3uj/theists_are_wrong_is_theism/ briefly brought it up]).

* [[Humans Are Flawed]]: As a result of having been 'designed' slowly and very much imperfectly by the 'idiot god' that is evolution.

* [[Living Forever Is Awesome]]: Almost everyone on Less Wrong. Hence, the strong Transhumanist bent.

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* [[Talking Your Way Out]]: The AI-Box Experiment.

* [[Transhuman|Transhumanism]]: Their philosophy and goal.

* [[Straw Vulcan]]: [[Averted Trope]]. Less Wrong community members [http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/ do not consider rationality to *necessarily* be at odds with emotion]. [http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/ Also, Spock is a terrible rationalist].

* [[Straw Vulcan]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Less Wrong community members [http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/ do not consider rationality to *necessarily* be at odds with emotion]. [http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/ Also, Spock is a terrible rationalist].

* [[Wiki Walk]]: It is fairly easy to go on one due to the links in the articles to other articles. Also, certain lines of thought about similar issues are organized into 'sequences' which make them more conveniently accessible.