LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame” (www.lesswrong.com)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think there's anything good about the writing, but there's a few things that stand out ito mechanics employed and to which outcome effect they appear to be aiming

(bad) storyteller style (nerds love 'em some stories as much as the next, even those who think they don't)
touching on sufficiently many topics ("oh wow he's thought about this so hard"
going just far enough in detail to convince that there's some kind of deeper aspect/more ("wow he knows so much about this")

even this horrible essay pulled the infomercial "but wait, there's more!" at least 5 times. a terrible Plot Twist because he can't figure out how to layer his story devices any better

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