Comment by Mononofu on Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People · 2010-12-05T15:09:17.276Z · LW · GW

Actually, I liked the original comment ( I wizened up -- I don't think that's the word you want to use, unless you're talking about how you finally lost those 20 pounds by not drinking anymore.) - it made me laugh for some reason.

Mind you, I didn't laugh about the author or whatever, I just found the meaning of those two words funny. And imho, that's half the purpose of the internet: making me laugh. Can you guess the other half? ^^

Comment by Mononofu on South/Eastern Europe Meeting in Ljubljana/Slovenia · 2010-11-02T19:29:03.961Z · LW · GW

Thanks :)

However, I'm probably going to take the SAT again on Dec 4th, so I can't attend Friday 3rd either ^^ (I'm actually taking the Math II and Physics SAT this weekend, in December I'll try to get the 800 on the writing part of the normal SAT I missed on my first try - already got 800 for math and reading)

Comment by Mononofu on South/Eastern Europe Meeting in Ljubljana/Slovenia · 2010-11-02T19:09:34.852Z · LW · GW

Damn, and I've got to take the SAT on Saturday >.<

Would have loved to come :-/

I'm from Austria, btw

Comment by Mononofu on Interested in a European lesswrong meetup · 2010-08-07T21:31:26.314Z · LW · GW

Apparently, I'm the only one from Austria here. I'd be willing to travel to London though, especially during Christmas this year or summer next year.

Other cities are not out of the question, but only if the meet-up is longer than a day.

Comment by Mononofu on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event · 2009-12-13T13:36:17.202Z · LW · GW

Ah, I thought you referred to an encounter between all of them. In this case, I agree with you - that's also what I think happened.

Regarding the juries: I've read to many reports about bad juries than to believe in them, and the fact that they are almost certainly less educated than a judge still remains.

Comment by Mononofu on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event · 2009-12-12T23:55:46.465Z · LW · GW

Why would you murder someone just because she didn't wanted to have group sex?

And even if you did, why the hell would you call the police yourself?

Furthermore, this case was decided by a jury. A group of average people with no real juristic knowledge at all. Just some random dumbasses who couldn't care less and just want to get home (no, I'm not narcist. Just consider: 50% of all people are by definition dumber than the average, and a jury is randomly selected. ie the average jury ranges from IQ 80 to 120, while a professional judge should start at about 125.) Do you really believe they would come to the correct decision?

And just think of the charges against the prosecutor (about inventing crazy conspiracy theories) . .

I guess for me its 5/5/90 for K/S/G.