mattnewport comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MartinB 01 May 2010 09:09:54PM *  3 points [-]

To answer my own question:

  • changed political and economic views (similar to Matt).

  • changed views on the effects of Nutrition and activity on health (including the actions that follow from that)

  • changed view on the dangers of GMO (yet again)

  • I became aware of areas where I am very ignorant of opposing arguments, and try to counterbalance

  • I finally understand the criticisms about the skeptics movement

  • I repeatedly underestimated the amount of ignorance in the world, and got shocked when discovering that

And on the funnier side. Last week I found out that i learned a minor physics fact wrong. That was not a strongly held opinion, just a fact i never looked up again till now. For some reason i always was convinced that the volume increase in freshly frozen water is 10x, while its actually more like 9%

Comment author: mattnewport 01 May 2010 09:20:49PM 2 points [-]

For some reason i always was convinced that the volume increase in freshly frozen water is 10x, while its actually more like 9%

Have you never made ice cubes?