Friendly-HI comments on My Greatest Achievement - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Swimmer963 12 September 2011 07:26PM

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Comment author: Friendly-HI 12 September 2011 09:34:50PM 12 points [-]

Congratulations.

Also, you've quite possibly picked the least judgmental crowd in the known universe to tell your story to, so I wouldn't worry - and you're still anonymous anyway, since you didn't use your real name here. I also didn't know about vaginismus before, which is really weird. (I mean the fact that I haven't heard of it yet, not the condition). I guess you never stop learning.

The only thing I'm curious about - did your accomplishment have anything to do with LW or rationality? Not that I'd sneer if that wasn't the case, I was just expecting some connection, since you started off with writing about when you first posted here.

Comment author: Solvent 13 September 2011 07:25:38AM 3 points [-]

the least judgmental crowd in the known universe

Where did you get that impression? (I'm not disagreeing, just asking.)

Comment author: Friendly-HI 13 September 2011 09:54:06AM *  3 points [-]

I've noticed that I got less and less judgmental, the more rational I got and I noticed a similar lack of judgment in the writing style of others around here. I suppose once you boot out beliefs like free will, or become more aware of biases like the "fundamental attribution mistake" (the tendency to interpret the behavior of others in terms of their dispositional character, instead of their situational circumstances), there is little room left to judge.

Judging people (in the personal, emotionally laden way) just seems like a waste of time. So where did I get the impression you ask? Well it's just the sheer absence of judgmental language it in the way people write around here, and I'm not under the impression that it's just being repressed for reasons of social etiquette. Perhaps I'm assuming too much by inferring from myself and projecting onto others, but I'll just make that assumption for now and continue to update on new evidence as it rolls in.

Comment author: lessdazed 13 September 2011 10:24:45AM 6 points [-]

Well it's just the sheer absence of judgmental language it in the way people write around here

Sure, the people around here aren't judgmental, but the last LW/OB meetup I went to, Suicide Rock was there, and let me tell you that thing couldn't have been more sanctimonious.

Comment author: juliawise 15 September 2011 09:10:21PM 2 points [-]

I also didn't know about vaginismus before, which is really weird.

People aren't exactly eager to talk about it.