List of underrated risks?

Nyan, you the man!

Thanks, that makes me happy!

Seriously, I did like your other thread, and like it even more now that I see this context.

I assume you mean my affection protocol. You'll have to explain the connection, I don't get it.

(is it just that your model of me is good enough to notice that I was nervous as fuck about that post and had to remind myself of about this courage idea and fall back on decision theory multiple times?)

Federal Death Administrators

This is great! I'll have to use tha-

People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth belaboring: In the ancestral environment, politics was a matter of life and death. And sex, and wealth, and allies, and reputation... When, today, you get into an argument about whether "we" ought to raise the minimum wage, you're executing adaptations for an ancestral environment where being on the wrong side of the argument could get you killed... Politics is an extension of war by other means. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy.

Excuse me. My politics detector went off.

Selling kidney.

This is after I die (or cryopreserve)? Or before? How much money?

The classic example is that WW1 gets a lot more attention than the Spanish flu, even though WW1 killed about 35 million people, and the flu killed between 50 and 130 million. On the other hand, the war made a huge political difference, so it might not just be a matter of intentionality.

Maybe look at religious groups that strongly believe that sin causes disease?

In developed countries they just get treatment secretly.

I tend to pace and to multitask, but I decided a few years ago (and have stuck to the decision pretty well) that whenever I was sticking something pointy in my ear I would stand still and give it my full attention.

This book has lots of examples in chapters 8 and 9 and maybe 7 and 10.

Some ways lucid dreaming has improved my own life:

• It's helped me come up with good ideas for high school creative writing assignments. So far I've acted on three of these, with very good results.

• It's helped me to practice better social skills and get over social anxieties.

• I used it to practice piano back when I played piano.

• Back when I took a first aid class, I used it to practice those techniques and to get over the emotions that can make first aid hard.

• I've tried to use it to understand math and other abstract things better. This hasn't worked extremely well (it turns out that seeing in four spacial dimensions is hard), but maybe you're more awesome than me in that respect.

• It has generally been an awesome experience.

And there's a lot more that I haven't used it for. You can practice skills like sports or juggling or cooking or magic tricks or fistfights. You can ask questions and get back answers from a part of yourself whose answers you can't predict. You can stop nightmares. You can relive memories more vividly than you can in waking life. You can do all the awesome, irresponsible things that you would otherwise want to do IRL, like driving cars way too fast or playing computer games. You can build and walk through memory palaces.

But I'm sure people here can come up with even cooler things to do. Lucid dreaming is a massive hole in the limitations of ordinary life, where there are massive completely-unexplored areas, and most of the people doing the exploration have been superstitious irrational idiots. I'm a bit worried that people here will reject it simply because it seems on the surface like the wrong sort of weird.

Probably not. Here is an article about it, though the writer seems a bit overconfident.

How To Seem (And Be) Deep

At another point in the discussion, a man spoke of some benefit X of death, I don't recall exactly what. And I said: "You know, given human nature, if people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing. But if you took someone who wasn't being hit on the head with a baseball bat, and you asked them if they wanted it, they would say no. I think that if you took someone who was immortal, and asked them if they wanted to die for benefit X, they would say no."

As written by CronoDAS. If most people get a debilitating disease by age X it would be widely accepted as unavoidable. Used to be the case with losing teeth in old age, still is with dementia and aging. Basically a comparison of the own experience to the common experience of your peers.

Think carefully before using psychoactive drugs heavily, especially psychedelic drugs during prime onset years for schizophrenia?

Get tested for H. pylori at your next doctor's visit and have eradicated if it's present?

Surely the difference is below the noise level of whatever data were used to get these figures? I make it about 0.16 millibits of Kullback-Leibler divergence, and upwards of 10,000 data points to have any chance of seeing the difference experimentally.