AdeleneDawner comments on Least Signaling Activities? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 22 May 2009 10:53:48PM 0 points [-]

Good point.

Most of the ways I can think of for that require a very solid sense of self-awareness (would you keep doing X if every social group you were currently involved with, or had recently been involved with, mildly disapproved of it, but you still found it useful?) and thus probably aren't very useful to most people.

Things you'd be surprised to find that others had noticed at all, while a small subset of non-signaling things, seems like one of the more robust ways of finding accurate ones, which is what I was trying to get at in my original comment. And yes, that'll vary widely from one social group to another. (Implication: Picking your social groups wisely is important.)