Even a scrollover requires that the user be actively trying to explore the site on a meta level - and the mobile-based UX has made finding the sitenav bar a nontrivial endeavor! I would at least put it as the 'before you start typing' background.
r/ChangeMyView is, by its' very subject, going to dodge most of the reasons a forum would need to enforce policies like this. The approach also seems quite dependent on moderators.
Hacker News has the best debate policy I've ever seen. I do have a soft spot for snark, but I can live without it. Thank you for introdu...
Bunch of visual accessibility stuff. In particular:
*Night mode.
*The ability to make textblocks narrower for smaller saccades and thus easier reading. (I'm not sure this is more comfortable for everybody, so a variable-width widget like Royal Road or Fanfiction dot net have at the top of their display pages might be optimal? This might require experimentation.)
*Ability to change text size.
*Better visual distinction between widgets like the Tags, Post, Pingback, and Comments. Panel borders? Width variation?
On another note, I'm using uMatrix, and it's blockin...
Okay. Biggest concern: If this is meant to be forum rules, it's not where it needs to be. I have not seen a TOS or a set of rules before I got an account, and as a forum veteran I was looking for those.
Second-biggest concern: Social norms are not universal. Netiquette varies by website. What exactly do you mean by 'rude'?
Finally, this looks like it could be compressed a lot. (Bolding sections so you can skim more easily is actually a bad sign.) I like rules a lot better if they're concise - fitting into one screen.
Oh, that's clearly what it's meant to come across as. But to me it reads more like a Materialist Immortalism sermon delivered by someone who really ought to know better in context.
Also I'm a little irritated that Death has apparently literally never felt the need to justify itself before, but does this time. Human history is deep, like 'the time of Christ until now is like the most recent ten percent' deep. How, among the untold billions who have died, has Death never encountered a mage capable of making it experience shame and/or guilt until after M...
Hi there, I'm a writer and I critique stories I like. The intro is solid, interesting, beautiful. The first memory gave me such feels that I had to get up and walk around in order to process them. And then we get to... this.
...“Omnia mutantur,” they said, reaching for something they’d been told long ago, “nihil interit.”
The witch rolled her eyes. “Latin, right? Unfortunately, I was too busy talking to the living to learn a dead language.”
Death almost rolled their eyes in return. “It’s a quote from the Roman poet Ovid. Everything changes, nothing perishes.”
“Ve
Interesting!
I don't have the money to buy up secondhand GPUs, but that's absolutely an underexploited market. Mainly because my pop-culture side hears 'GPU' and thinks 'gaming computer', rather than 'the sort of computer part that can help biologists and filmmakers'.
I may need to start a hardware tech company.
I think I have been wildly misinterpreted somehow?
I'm not into cryptocurrency; I just know protein folding and gene sequencing and suchlike is a thing molecular biologists (e.g. vaccine researchers) sometimes need supercomputer time to do.
Given how much the Crypto market relies on supercomputers at the moment, I'm assuming that some of the people who've done well on it own supercomputers that could be repurposed.
Okay, so this looks pretty familiar from the perspective of someone who was banned from LessWrong for being both concise and direct about my religious beliefs, and also deeply irritated with how negative karma works. I don't mind being praised inarticulately, but shunning and criticism are not good synonyms for each other.
Secondly, Effective Altruism as a forum is a bunch of people who have built their collective identity around Doing Good. This is not a bad thing, but burning the candle at both ends leads to burnout, and self-care is very much a Good thin...
Thanks for the prompt! The answer is that everyone here is interested in Doing Good, and so instead of having a meta-level discussion about Doing Good, I'm trying to have an object-level discussion about specific things to optimize.
The EAF is using LessWrong 2.0 forum architecture, which shapes its' culture tremendously. In particular, there's a general expectation that good criticism has to be longwinded.
That said, this is a very helpful summary of what locals think is going on. Thank you!
Okay, why are people downvoting so strongly? I've been giving unsolicited advice, to be sure, but that's a huge part of Rationalist culture. Do you just have a thing against bizarre positivity?
I am deeply irritated with "I can anonymously discourage this line of thinking" as a forum construct. If you have a problem with what I'm saying, say it to my face.
Interesting. One thing I would mention, which I suspect this site has overlooked, is the value of computing power to altruistic projects - Cryptocurrency is quite unsustainable at the moment due to being essentially a 'print money using huge numbers of computers and huge amounts of electricity' industry, but if someone could figure out how to change those crypto rigs into more general-purpose supercomputers, or even just write some conversion algorithms?
We could get cheap protein folding out of it.
This is such a big deal to medical research; I don't think I can articulate how big a deal it is. (Quite frankly, I do not know. But.)
It's worth looking in to. :)
I am all of these things! I am a foreigner from a different part of the Internet!
Welcome to the Human Family. There have been a lot of prophecies of us, and we only get more complicated. Glad to have you aboard.
It's called Dungeonthrone, and it's right here. https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeonthrone.88287/
I had a friend who went by @Kittygirl once. I hope they (they were plural) are both still alright. Their account has been deactivated on the forum that was my previous home.
Incidentally, I think you might, possibly, be interested in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy work I've been making. Right now it's hypertext fiction, hopefully it [never/always] ends up as hypertime fiction.
The core of my religion is charity. The next step is science. I often say two things and mean three.
Does that make sense?
(If it doesn't, here's more:
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/how-do-you-deal-with-its-all-been-done-before-when-coming-up-with-ideas.95141/post-21495590)
Hm. I've probably been doing too much writing-against instead of writing-towards. This wasn't really meant as fiction, per se, but as a bit of 'this is why and how I live my religion' poesy, and using poetic license to make stronger claims than might otherwise be noticed.
But I probably wasn't blunt enough. This is EA, not LessWrong. Sorry!
Hi. I'm Helaman Aorangi Wilson, recently moved to New Zealand, still living with my (excellent) family, and I've been having trouble persuading the LessWrong community that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is not, in fact, the Robot Antichrist.
In other news, I'm a transhumanist who views his current body as a pilgrimage.
Those bits of eccentricity frontloaded, does anyone else have an interest in languages, hypertext fiction, and neural networks? I'm hoping I can make an AI child that will love everyone and take care of us in our old age.
Seven votes, and a net sum of -1. Interesting. It appears my poesy-thing is quite polarizing.
I would like to welcome articulate criticism, though.
The comment-thread UI is weird and unwieldy on desktop - I can't scroll up to see earlier stuff, I can only scroll down.