Matt_Liggett comments on Your Most Valuable Skill - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Matt_Liggett 28 September 2009 02:26:21AM *  5 points [-]

Like Michael Vassar, I think there should be more sex. Ergo, getting sex partners in the mood, getting them off, getting them to get me off, and (barring the previous things working) taking care of things myself.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 28 September 2009 01:40:22PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but I wouldn't put that in the top hundred, given the sort of things that other people are bringing up here.

Comment author: UnholySmoke 29 September 2009 03:26:52PM 2 points [-]

Appears 3 times in my top 10.

That aside, though, I'm now so much better at stopping myself and saying 'hang on, is this really going to work/is this really true/is this really right?' Very, very generic, but certainly something I've noticed in myself.

Comment author: Mycroft65536 29 September 2009 03:48:09AM 1 point [-]

Not in the top 100? If the goal of rationalists is to "win" given our various utility functions, you really think there are 100 better skills that aspiring rationalists could use to maximize their personal utility function and become "toe curling happy"?

Comment author: CronoDAS 29 September 2009 04:29:38AM 3 points [-]

I don't have that skill. :(

Comment author: MichaelVassar 29 September 2009 11:03:04PM 2 points [-]

Yes, and as noted, I think that the skill in question is UNDERRATED. I just think that there are a LOT of important things to learn in life.