The Death of the Cyberflâneur

Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by IsaacL on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:28PM (#12491416)

Here's a collection of jumping-off points to curious communities I've spent many a happy hour exploring:

http://ribbonfarm.com https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/ http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ https://meaningness.com/ http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/

Enjoy :)

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by Analemma_ on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:53PM (#12491643)

We need a DARE program to warn unsuspecting children about people like you ;) LessWrong is a rabbit hole you'll never find your way out of.

Oh it starts off harmless. "I'll just read a couple", you say. But a year later you're mainlining SSC and pissing off all your friends talking about "virtue signaling". And then a year after that you're living in Berkeley, dating five people, and giving a third of your income to MIRI. Kids, just say no!

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by greenshackle on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @05:59PM (#12492622)

Well, dating five people if you're (mostly hetero) female; dating one or two people, who are each dating five people, if you're (mostly hetero) male.

Edit: Arguably, this is a better outcome than monogamy in a highly gender-skewed community (e.g. 1 in 2 het men dateless).

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @06:32PM (#12492795)

Source? (I'm not being argumentative, just genuinely curious if this is anything but anecdote.)

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by yummyfajitas on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:13PM (#12493323)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/lhg/2014_survey_results/

50% monogamous, 15% poly.

Every lesswrong group I've visited - in the US, Europe and India - had multiple polyamorous people present and discussing polyamory, so I'd be surprised if this poll is way off.

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by unimpressive on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:45PM (#12493715)

Oh look at that, a perfect opportunity for me to plug that I ran the 2016 survey with updated results:

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nmk/2016_lesswrong_dias...

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nor/2016_lesswrong_dias...

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nqa/2016_lesswrong_dias...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/nx2/2016_lesswrong_diaspora_survey_a...

The one that concerns you is that LessWrong is now 18.2% polyamorous. This might just be an effect of increased scope of survey respondents though.

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by greenshackle on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:11AM (#12497006)

Anecdote, i.e. me dating a girl with 3 boyfriends in the Bay Area.

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by whackedspinach on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:58PM (#12492177)

Please go back in time and invent this program. I definitely need to stop mainlining SSC.

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by gcr on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:12PM (#12493320)

Rationalist fiction is also tons of fun. Here's a great sample story from this community if you have an hour or so free: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-deep...

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by nercht12 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:04PM (#12491729)

Stop making me want to read it!

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by ZenoArrow on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:48PM (#12492093)

Thanks for the links, I enjoy discovering sites with interesting content.

They probably wouldn't be classed as unknown/obscure, but I always seem to find something interesting on Brain Pickings and Colossal, worth a look if they're new to you:

https://www.brainpickings.org/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/

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Re:The Death of the Cyberflâneur by cobber2005 on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:19AM (#12497807)

Principia Cybernetica introduced me to pantheism (not really a theism at all). It is wonderful that the internet still allows people to stumble upon things that can positively change their life, even if it is hard to find those things. It was probably harder to find such things before the internet.

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