https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851
>Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
>Rationality: from AI to Zombies (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
>Harry Potter And The Methods of Rationality(Eliezer Yudkowsky)
>Accepting Acausual Robot God into your mind and heart(Eliezer Yudkowsky)
hmm
>"Mum," Harry said. "If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There's a quote there about how philosophers say a great deal about what science absolutely requires, and it is all wrong, because the only rule in science is that the final arbiter is observation - that you just have to look at the world and report what you see. Um... off the top of my head I can't think of where to find something about how it's an ideal of science to settle things by experiment instead of arguments -" His mother looked down at him and smiled. "Thank you, Harry. But -" her head rose back up to stare at her husband. "I don't want to win an argument with your father. I want my husband to, to listen to his wife who loves him, and trust her just this once -"
>Harry closed his eyes briefly. Hopeless. Both of his parents were just hopeless.
really bongles your dongles
>>9593756
HN is a horrible forum in general, outside of specific tech topics.
>Ayn Rand
>Businessmen biographies
Can't say I'm surprised
HN used to mock reddit and now they've become reddit. Sad.
>>9594227
So it's exactly like 4chan?
>>9594234
Yeah, totally./s
>>9594241
t. reddit
>>9594255
Incorrect. Reddit is a site on the internet [0]. A person can not be a website by definition. [1] The user clearly posted on 4chan, not Reddit. [2] This is a clear example of an affirmative conclusion from a negative premise.
[0] https://reddit.com
[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/person
[2] >>9594241