AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Human Networks - Sane and Insane.png}}|thumb|We each think the other insane, so the alternative way to handle Shiri's Scissor is to just not talk to the other side]] On the Internet, we all interact with each other as roughly equals...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:LOTR - Potential Eagle Path.png}}|thumb|The oft-suggested use of Maiar air power to end Sauron's ring]] A sufficiently advanced intelligence cannot be 'corrected' without destroying its autonomy. Your only hope is to interact with...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Google Street View Screenshot - Easwari Lending Library.png}}|thumb|Where I picked up the book the first time]] When I was young, I picked up a book called [[wikipedia:The Two Towers|The Two Towers]] while walking through the local...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Apparently 38 percent of students at Stanford have at least one disability<ref name=atlantic/>. Now, the Atlantic alleges, discreetly and in a sideways manner, that a large number of doctors who have set diagnostic criteria, administrators that...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot {{HistoricalArchive |message=This was accidentally posted publicly and then archived since |source_url=https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611/ }} == Stevey's Google Platforms Rant == I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Panamint Valley - Death Valley National Park.jpg|frame|center|upright=999|Yosemite valley would never be called Death Valley, but the latter could have been called Valley of Eternal Rainfall]] Have you noticed that famous places with names that...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Semantic Inflation]] is the phenomenon experienced by words intended to represent extremes where overuse reduces their significance until references to those extremes have to be raised even higher in order to recreate the same emotional strength. ==...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot About ten years, Y Combinator attempted to have the Hacker News community pick a startup for them to fund for one of that summer's Fellowship Three. Some users warned that the thing would be gamed, moderators decided to proceed knowing that because it...

Roshan: There is much Internet folklore about bugs where the issues seem like they could not be real or are simply a lay user mistakenly drawing relations between things incorrectly where these relationships are [[Veriphenia|nonetheless borne out to be true]]. This is a list of such 'veriphenic bugs' *...

Roshan: [[Veriphenia]] is a phenomenon where a pattern that appears to be coincidental or superstitious turns out to be genuine. From Latin veritas (truth) and Greek phainein (to appear): "true appearing." === Contrast With Apophenia === [[wikipedia:Apophenia|Apophenia]] is the tendency to spot patterns between...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot DMV Cancellation of Real ID Email Notification.png|thumb|The email I got sent. The letter is similar.]] A few weeks ago, I received a letter from the DMV explaining why they were going to cancel my Real ID in a few weeks. The letter...

Roshan: Add robotaxi and spacex examples When you live in San Francisco and around the Silicon Valley ecosystem, a mantra that everyone repeats is 'iteration'. Attempting to reach [[wikipedia:product-market fit|product-market fit]] is traditionally, here, described as an iterative process where you put out a...