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Not sure what exactly should count as appropriate, I had assumed that the votes would sort the good from the bad, but maybe people would be less inclined to downvote a book they liked, which could be a problem with a well-liked book.
Is it enough that these comments could serve as a warning, or do you suggest I delete/edit the post?
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
Heuristics and Biases, collection edited by Daniel Kahneman, Thomas Gilovich and Dale Griffin
Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, collection edited by Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Paul Slovic
Dont understand the "activity" part, the post implied sleeping was fine, so does breathing count?
Stop fussing over voting! Now!
It's an important part of the site, and it'll pay off if it's done well.
Requesting a short summary of the current plans for future changes the voting system, preferably from someone in a position to know.
It's probably not mentioned enough that cryonics can be justified even if it looks like it probably wont work, as long as it's past some threshold.
While we're talking about getting out of bed, try telling yourself to wiggle your toe rather than to get up completely, gets easier from there.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt, the voluntary castration sounds so crazy, but the absurdity heuristic is there for a reason, maybe I gave too much credit for simply being on LW.
I see no reason for this comment other than as some sort of test to see if you get voted down no matter what you say, if that's the case then it's not a very good test. If you absolutely have to do that sort of thing, at least try a new account or something.
How is that good?
Might be easier to manage comments and direct people to it if its a whole post rather than a comment in the may 09 open thread.
But wouldn't the site's earliest days be the time of least newcomers?
I must have misread, lifetime access to lesswrong isn't worth one cent, but you'll voluntarily spend hours of time on it?
I would like to see the results made public, as well as seeing more surveys in general.
Don't have a good indicator of how many people would worry about public data, but as the survey-taking group size increases (as I presume will happen over time on LW) it should become easier to remain unidentifiable.
Plenty of people voluntarily fill out surveys about themselves on social networking sites, and those of us concerned with anonymity probably wouldn't be filling them out either way.
CI only offers full-body, but it's cheaper than Alcor's neuro option.
Are you just scared of the idea of evil aliens, or do you actually think that it's a significant risk that cryonicists recklessly ignore?
Seems that anybody who talks about being downvoted gets upvoted.
By "extremely risk-averse" do you mean "working hard to maximise persistence odds" or "very scared of scary scenarios"?
You're right that death while signed up for cryonics is still a very bad thing, though. I don't think Eliezer would be fine with deaths if they were signed up, but sometimes he makes it seem that way.
Heres what I've gathered from you so far: You have not been more insightful since castration, but you have been calmer, and less influenced by some unspecific bias. You see testosterone as you see blood alcohol, and prefer its absence.
If you're interested in persuading us, stop promoting your brand with single sentences and go in to more detail.
Do you think you could summarise it for everybody in a post?
I'd be interested in reading (but not writing) a post about rationalist relationships, specifically the interplay of manipulation, honesty and respect.
Seems more like a group chat than a post, but let's see what you all think.
I would upvote this because it's important that you answered the question and I don't want to discourage that, but I don't want to imply that I like your honor system solution.
Current drugs will only give you a bit of pleasure before wrecking you in some way or another.
CronoDAS should be doing his best to stay alive, his current pain being a down payment on future real wireheading.
We talk a lot about bringing new people in to the community, well, here they are.
Not to imply that you're doing it wrong, but has any thought been put in to how to better handle these sorts of situations?
Don't assume the rationalists have super powerful technology.
Echoing this, but dont limit your reply to solely card-games, if you have anything else to add.
Mensa themselves say they aim to take the top 2% of the population. This strikes me as too many to be useful.
Useful for what?
If I thought my own comment was downvote-worthy, I probably wouldn't have posted it
When downvoted you can hope for an explanation, and you can hate it when people don't give one, but forcing one?
Since I would not be able to upvote my comment, upvoting someone else's comment would suggest that I think their comment is better than my own
Huh? If you have no ability to upvote yourself, why would upvoting someone else's comment indicate it's better than yours?
Stop being vague and unhelpful
It's nice to see that some players cooperate
The word "iffy" in your acronym should be replaced, I think.
if our beloved Omega takes up a job as an oracle for humanity, and we can just ask him any question at any time and be confident in his answer, what should happen to our pursuit of rationality?
dunno, ask Omega
I agree until the last paragraph, I seem to remember thinking that there was a way it could have been done better, and that I could excuse his error because he wasn't overcoming an impossibility.
Unfortunately, I dont remember how I thought to fix it.
I've spent a lot of time scouring tvtropes.org for something similar, Code Geass was one of the better ones.
Any particular reason to single those two out? I might give The Dosadi Experiment higher priority.
As far as I know, there is no private-message function built in to lesswrong. I prefer to maintain some level of anonymity anyway, and it would hardly be worth creating an account specifically for this purpose. I don't care that much, though a general idea of which character does it or when would be appreciated.
All that aside, reading it made the whole thing move a lot faster, which probably contributed to the enjoyment, but I otherwise I think they are fairly similar.
I've heard that complaint a lot, and I agree in the case of Sherlock Holmes, but death note seemed somehow plausible.
If you can remember it at all, do you think you could tell me specifically which parts you thought were "lucky guesses"? I like to keep those sorts of things in mind when re-reading.
The manga/anime series "Death Note"
It's a long mental battle between two clever people, not much for rationality techniques, but characters think rationally, and the magical parts have well defined rules, similar to Lawrence Watt-Evans' fiction.
I would be terribly thankful to anybody who could reccomend me some more stories involving these sorts of fights. Trickery and betrayal is common enough, but a prolonged fued of this nature is rare.
If you want to stop someone from reading a book, there's generally better ways than telling them not to do it.
That aside, kids can be surprisingly dumb, I wouldn't rely on them reaching the right conclusions even with assistance.
It's beside the point, but your idea of torture might be a bit light if you would undergo five minutes out of curiosity.
I think he is implying that we think we agree when we dont really, in that case he would expect us to vote in agreement with you.
When the site crashes it says things like "looks like today isn't your day" or "it's okay to cry".
One of these phrases links you to the reddit blog, another links to the reddit store, leftovers I guess.
Curious, are you proud of how difficult you find lying?
I dont know much about charity, but I dont contest that this was made up in a day.
"Never fix the worst problem first, because thats the way skin heals"
Even better to address as many as possible, making them all feel like they are being specifically targeted
"Hey you with the dark hair"