/lit/ - Literature

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>>11664992
what are the genius ideas?

No one cares, see: Kafka.

There is no plain prose.

unironic genius

Unpopular opinion: inadequate equilibria is actually a pretty interesting book

What do you mean by plain writing?

>>11666306
it's shit
the sequences are better.
/ratanon/

no... that's why i read hemingway...

>>11667190
>reading a million words from a grade school dropout's blog posts

>>11667441
>you need a university education to be a good writer

>>11664992
No, there are plenty of good books that feature a simple language.

J.M. Coetzee
Chinua Achebe
Franz Kafka

etc. are authors who wrote in a "simple" language yet produced good, interesting and sometimes even beautiful books.

>>11667441
how many words do you think you've read on 4chan?

>>11664998
Yudkowsky legitimately has points to make that I have not seen better expressed elsewhere. The rationality movement he's spawned has done a lot a stupid shit, but it's also the only space that discusses many aspects of cognition seriously that aren't often brought up in other circles.

>>11668812
Please anon, I don't want to think about this kind of data, I've been here since late 2006.

>>11667441
yes
just added nine more

No, Yudkowsky's self-insert power fantasy Harry Potter fanfic is the greatest work of literature of this century, possibly ever.

For the sake of this board...none of you guys actually think Yudo has anything new or interesting to say, right? RIGHT?

>>11669176
He helped popularize Bayesian statistics in fields where people didn't talk about it much. That's good.

>>11669182
I can give him being a popularizer of that and Judgment and Critical Thinking terms, but he's not original on his own.

Why does he insist on trying to become a pop science icon when he blatantly disregards science?

>>11669210
>pop science icon
I think he wants to be a regular science icon.

>>11664992
geniuses don't write plainly.

>>11669210

>I will delete comments regarding diet or exercise

Jesus christ what a retard. Opinion discarded

>>11669210
... calories in < calories out? Was that a serious question?

>>11669231
basado y píldorarrojeado

>>11664992
Scott Alexander is more interesting anyway.

>>11664992
No. Before Hegel (may G*d smithe his rotten soul) ruined everyone wrote reasonably readable prose.

>>11669737
He credits Yudkowsky and Less Wrong for most of his thinking style.

>>11664992
Plain writing to express genius ideas is the highest ideal. Do you want to change the world or circle jerk with some of your frienemies?

>>11669210
>Am fat, please help. My uncontrollable eating of garbage is not the problem!

>>11669176
Who else has a better articulated argument against the possibility of P-zombies? Seriously, I legitimately want to know who, if anyone, had a more in depth treatment of the issue.

>>11670074
okay, link his argument then, I'm curious

>>11670081
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fdEWWr8St59bXLbQr/zombies-zombies

>>11668831
such as?

>>11669274
That sounds like diet and exercise to me. Deleted.

>>11664992
Yes. Give me rich prose any day of the week.

>>11664992
That's the only way to do it. Hacks hiding behind prose are full of shit and not worth my time.