mattnewport comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong
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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%
Have you never made ice cubes?