The Lens That Conceals Its Flaws: Nonsense at the Heart of the Sequences

As one LessWrong moderation message states: “LessWrong has fairly specific standards, and your first LessWrong post is sort of like the application to a college.”

invalid reasoning

If you want students to report understanding, that’s more easily induced by combining an entertaining format with subtle signals of the status the student will attain from appearing to have advanced technical knowledge. Intentionally or unintentionally, Yudkowsky’s passage is a supernormal stimulus optimized for precisely this experience of rewarding but fake learning.

agreed