Positivity Thread :)

controversial topics, such as (...) interpretations of quantum physics.

I love that this is a thing here.

One time, Yvain mentioned on SlateStarCodex that it was surprising that he didn't have more conservative acquaintances. The reason for that was that people who are similar along certain axes tend to cluster together. So, when I say that you're a beautiful person, you can be sure that that's true, because everyone with a connection to this site holds a resilient spark within themselves that sings of hope for the future of humankind.

Awesomeness clusters here.

You are deserving of friendship and love. Do you know how uncaring the world is? The world has not praised you for being good at changing your mind. It has valued neither your intelligence, nor your ability to have an impact, to the degree to which these things ought to be valued. You are valuable. Remember this.

I love you too! ❤ ❤ ❤

I mean, it's fun and all, but what do you think about:

• spreading niceness to all discussion on LW, not just a special separate thread,

• having an actual topic to discuss while being nice about it?

Edit: ah, right, you wanted to not go meta here. Sorry.

#LessWrongMoreNice

I'm really very happy that this whole website/community exists! I think it's one of the best influences on my life that I can think of.

Honestly, the world is a terribly confusing place to me. I'm not natively good at forming opinions — probably worse still than the average untrained person. And there are so many people very firmly believing contradictory things about so many things, and so many arguments that seem so convincing and still turn out to be wrong, so many different strands of dark side epistemology. LessWrong, to me, is an oasis of sanity in that landscape of discord. LessWrong represents a school of thought that teaches you how to wade through the fog without stumbling quite as much, making the Problem of Figuring Out What To Believe a lot more manageable.

And I like how there's no angry talk here, just an academic atmosphere of unjudging curiosity. I appreciate that too.

It's old news but I recently came across this article and found it quite cheerful.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/10/slow-but-steady/

Yay! Congrats to all of us on being among the remarkably few conscious entities alive in the early part of the 21st century!

Yesterday evening I enjoyed our regular get-together with friends and I'm still feeling very happy because of a talk with my brother-in-law that improved our mutual understanding a lot and reduced a long standing tension!

It's good to see that LW too can be really human sometimes

:D ^_^ <3

Metaforms is a fantastic logical reasoning one player board game for children.

This is hilarious.

Aurora Peachy is a huge Sailor Moon fangirl and watching her get so excited for every episode always melts my heart.

Who are your favorite low profile LWers? Are there any LWers whose comments you often find insightful, interesting or otherwise worth reading even though they aren't among top users or have a lot of karma?

My garden makes me happy.

Right now the leaves are turning yellow and there's a new, autumnal bite in the air that I find invigorating.

The birds are still visiting, and every now and then I'll feed the king parrots and rosellas seed and watch them twitter at each other, all colourful plumage and huffed-up self-importance. I think they sound like guinea pigs, which always makes me laugh :)

Kitties!!!

This is my daughter's (13 months old) favourite kitten video. So adorable! She keeps meowing with them. (ʘ‿ʘ)

If you have nice videos of cats (or dogs, or birds, or maybe horses -- those are the species she recognizes already), please give me the links. Specifically, the videos of animals moving and making sounds, without human commentary, preferably more different individuals of the same species. Thanks!

I am very happy that the meta thread is over in the open thread. Very good idea!

Building/Making objects for my pockets, artistry, and everyday life makes me happy.

For example, I recently created an earplug carrying case out of a contact lens case. I cut up, sanded, engraved, and painted the case. It is now a matte black, small, and efficient container, replacing the oversized and ugly case the earplugs came with. Every time I pull it out of my pocket before I play drums it makes me smile.

Has anyone customized or made anything that makes them very happy?

Also, I love SquirrelInHell's #LessWrongMoreNice, so I'm putting it here.

What are your favorite puns?

I think weird sun twitter is really great and any of you that are weird suns are really great.

I found this to be a cheerful video, about people working on fusion. (It's a promo, so dark arts warning applies.)

I'm happy about spring here in Columbus, OH. We recently moved to a new place and I just cut the grass here for the first time (we didn't have any grass to cut in our previous place). Domesticity feels nice :-)

https://soundcloud.com/user8536070/power-remix-ft-jay-z-swizz-beatz

hahaha..Well, what can I say? The title says it all - this is "Anything that makes you happy" LOL :)

The spirit of the rules will always be there, you just have to play with them :)

This is a fun, informative read! :)

Hi, just wanted to tell you, I enjoyed this blog post. It was fun reading all the comments. Keep on posting!