wedrifid comments on Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 24 September 2010 05:36:57PM *  15 points [-]

OkCupid thread, anyone?

I was thinking that those of us that aren't shy could share our OkCupid profiles for critique from people who know better. (Not that we have to accept the critiques as valid, but this is an area where it'd be good to have others' opinions anyway.)

If anyone wants to get the ball rolling, post a link to your profile and hopefully someone will offer a suggestion (or a compliment).

Also, I bet cross-sexual-preference critique would be best: which for most of us means gals critiquing guys and guys critiquing gals. But I realize the LW gender skew limits that.

Comment author: wedrifid 24 September 2010 05:41:03PM 2 points [-]

I'm bayesian_prior. The profile I have there is successful but I haven't looked at the text I wrote there in over a year. Critiques are welcome.

Comment author: Nisan 25 September 2010 04:53:50PM *  2 points [-]

You may want to expand the sections "The first things people usually notice about me" and "The six things I could never do without". The former is a chance to provide a random detail about yourself. As for the latter, "eudaimonia" is a great answer, but if I didn't know the transhumanist connotation and looked it up on Wikipedia, I'd conclude that you must be a fan of virtue ethics :)

ETA: Oh, and a while back OKCupid got rid of the "I am , , and " section, and incorporated the text into your self-summary. You may or may not like that.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 September 2010 04:57:17PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

Virtue ethics? Gah! Must change that.