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Comment by quinces6l on [Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty · 2025-01-08T14:13:39.216Z · LW · GW

This was a nice read but I don't have the slightest clue what "Goal-factored the idea of "guilty pleasures". Now loves speedrunning unabashedly" means

Comment by quinces6l on quinces6l's Shortform · 2024-12-07T20:18:47.534Z · LW · GW

The common viewpoint that vapes don't really make people quit smoking because I know (x) people who went from cigarettes to vapes but never stopped vaping probably has to do with the smoker changing their mind, I think pretty strongly that most people who go from smoking to vapes (in order to quit) end up not quitting not because they can't quit vapes but because vapes cause so much less health issues than smoking they instead change their minds and decide they're fine with their cost-benefit analysis of vaping but not smoking