Comment by Maha on Discovering Your Secretly Secret Sensory Experiences · 2014-03-22T06:47:28.777Z · LW · GW

These experiences sound like synesthesia, in case anyone's unfamiliar with the concept and wants further reading.

Comment by Maha on Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies · 2013-01-08T08:42:42.533Z · LW · GW

The "forensic astronomer" is a dead link, here's the last version of it on archive.org.

Comment by Maha on Factions, inequality, and social justice · 2012-12-11T09:10:29.696Z · LW · GW

Oops, I actually wasn't aware of that.

Comment by Maha on Factions, inequality, and social justice · 2012-12-10T13:23:38.467Z · LW · GW

Small terminology gripe on the fifth paragraph - "men's rights activist" is, as far as I know, that group's nomenclature of choice, while very few feminists would self-identify as "radical". Comes off as slightly non-neutral.

Comment by Maha on Applause Lights · 2011-12-14T00:32:56.426Z · LW · GW

I don't think these statements are entirely vacuous. Even when their content is little more than a tautology, their actual meaning is something else entirely, at least in politics; they represent that the speaker is aware of the jargon, willing to use it, essentially moderate/"pragmatic" and prone to maintaining the status quo.