Comment by Scott78704 on The Dark Arts - Preamble · 2010-10-14T00:53:12.813Z · LW · GW

Yeah. Real brain rape starts with the Black Knife Kiss* and goes downhill from there.

*No, you don't want to know.

Comment by Scott78704 on The Dark Arts - Preamble · 2010-10-14T00:44:45.411Z · LW · GW

Third option would include drug addiction.

Comment by Scott78704 on Rationality quotes: October 2010 · 2010-10-06T15:13:12.210Z · LW · GW

Except for the God grant me part, yeah.

Comment by Scott78704 on The Irrationality Game · 2010-10-06T14:55:50.092Z · LW · GW

Open source.

Comment by Scott78704 on The Irrationality Game · 2010-10-06T14:53:00.727Z · LW · GW

What does 'sheer dumb luck' mean?

Comment by Scott78704 on The Irrationality Game · 2010-10-06T14:50:37.665Z · LW · GW

Conflating people with politicians is an egregious category error.

Comment by Scott78704 on More art, less stink: Taking the PU out of PUA · 2010-09-10T16:35:23.170Z · LW · GW

Loehr talks about Real Self and Performer Self, that the goal in performance state is high positive energy, whereas in recovery mode one should, for example, acknowledge hunger and eat, acknowledge thirst and sleep, acknowledge exhaustion and nap....

Comment by Scott78704 on A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy · 2010-09-08T21:58:56.398Z · LW · GW

Squatting heavy once a week will make you stronger than almost everyone at almost everything, younger, healthier, leaner, smarter*, richer, prettier; takes about fifteen minutes. How does that compare to your current exercise regimen?

*http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000465

**http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0197-4580/PIIS0197458005002745.pdf