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comment by Kaj_Sotala · 2022-04-23T10:08:57.887Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

[Redacted]

comment by gbear605 · 2022-04-22T16:37:28.574Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Are… are you doing okay?

comment by Vaniver · 2022-04-22T17:09:33.182Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Incidentally, when I saw the "LSUSR WAS HERE", I said "I'm not sure I believe it, because lsusr seems like the sort of person who would encourage other people to write that."

comment by mukashi (adrian-arellano-davin) · 2022-04-22T16:49:43.643Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

did you... click on publish instead of save draft?

comment by MondSemmel · 2022-04-22T17:36:27.565Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I didn't understand anything I read, but I sure enjoyed reading it, to the point of laughing out loud after the fact. I'm not quite sure if that was the intended experience here (though if I can take the "supposed to be a puzzle" line at face value, I guess it is). But if so, well done :).

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comment by hath · 2022-04-22T17:45:06.828Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Yeah, my reaction to this was "you could have done a much better job of explaining the context" but:

"Your writing would be easier to understand if you explained things," the student said.

That was me, so I guess my opinion hasn't changed.

comment by Measure · 2022-04-22T17:25:32.901Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

If this is accurate, then you're weirder in person (relative to in-person baseline) than you are on the internet (relative to internet baseline).

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comment by hath · 2022-04-22T18:32:40.629Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Can confirm that this is all accurate. Some of it is much less weird in context. Some of it is much, much weirder in context.

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comment by Vanilla_cabs · 2022-04-22T21:36:48.206Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Ok but what's the takeaway for us who do not know the context?

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comment by lsusr · 2022-05-24T20:53:42.057Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I used to believe the world made sense. April finally broke my credulity.

comment by Space L Clottey (TheTrueSquidward) · 2022-05-24T19:45:26.488Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This was really interesting. Mapping the bits I understood (which was minimal) to the bits I didn't was fun, but also the style of writing for even the bits I didn't understand was entertaining

comment by NunoSempere (Radamantis) · 2022-04-30T19:41:57.847Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This was hillarious, very fun to read.

comment by abstractapplic · 2022-04-22T20:12:33.376Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Strong-upvoted for reminding me how much I miss teaching/tutoring.

comment by MondSemmel · 2022-04-22T20:06:42.467Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Typo:

the number which had been excised is called θ. Θ is...

...

-> From what I can tell these are three different depictions of the "theta" character. It may not be feasible to get down to just one, as the second line is in LaTeX, but it should be possible to get down to two.

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comment by Measure · 2022-04-22T21:47:18.866Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I assumed it was intentionally capitalized where it begins a sentence.

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comment by MondSemmel · 2022-04-23T09:39:09.811Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Oh, good point.