The Less Wrong Wiki

[Cain]

For those of you who have been enjoying Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, I thought I should point out that the author has a wiki/blog at http://wiki.lesswrong.com/

Of particular interest is the Sequences, which I am attempting to put into a single, readable, PDF format.

[Triple Zero]

I tried crawling and converting those pages with a few scripts, but I was in a hurry to configure it and it didn't go very well.

The upshot is, that a misconfigured spider left running by itself for a while crawls and collects all sorts of things which means it seems that I now have about 1.15GB of supplemental data from other domains that are linked on lesswrong.com and wiki.lesswrong, most of them PDF files, I suppose.

I did also get all of the pages (I think), but it started crawling the history of different versions of the wiki pages at some point (even though I explicitly told it not to), and it's in zillions of files and directories and a bit of a mess.

I should probably write my own spider so it'll just do what I tell it to.

[Captain Utopia]

Of particular interest is the Sequences, which I am attempting to put into a single, readable, PDF format.

This would be awesome.

[LMNO]

Cain thank you for doing the work the rest of us should be doing.  Myself included.  I owe you one.

[Cain]

I'm up to Reductionism, the fourth set of sequences out of the 8 major ones.  And I've already got 351 pages copied over.

I might pretty this up and email it to Yudowsky at some point, too.

[Kai]

I read through Reductionism, Rationality, and Changing Your Own Mind. Also a few of the minor sequences.

Pretty much stopped there. I feel like I have a handle on the basics and Yudowsky's posts and comments often feel like somewhere between lecturing, preaching and proselytizing. Especially when he presents false dilemmas in his own reasoning.

For example, this post: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/ The question is an obvious false dilemma looking for a third alternative.



I did like Alicorn's minor sequence on Living Luminously very much. I recommend.

[Jasper]

Cain, if you finish this project, I may be forced to drop hundreds of dollars on a PRS-900 or Kindle DX. 

HAVE YUO NO MERCY?! 

[Cain]

The latest Kindle Wifi is actually pretty affordable.

Also, I have three more subsequences to go and I'll have completed this.  It wont be pretty, I'll do that some other time, but all the entries and most of the diagrams (a few wouldn't copy over) will be present.  This currently stands at 1112 pages, or, if you prefer, 529,909 words.

[Cain]

Here you are, fuckos

http://ifile.it/5fk84zg

3.694 MB, 32 hours of editing (according to Word).

[Jasper]

Holy fucking crap.

I now owe you a paycheck's worth of beers.

[Telarus]

[Kai]

Damn  you are good, Cain.

[LMNO]

Upload of the century.

[LMNO]

Yeah, um... What format did you save that in?  It's a ".docx" file on my computer, and it looks like I don't have anything on my (Mac, I know) that opens it.

[Cain]

.docx is the Word 2007 format.  What format would you like it in?