gwern comments on More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong

14 Post author: NancyLebovitz 31 July 2013 09:18AM

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Comment author: gwern 31 July 2013 10:09:10PM * 6 points [-]

Anyone want to announce that they dislike oxygen and rainbows?

(Rainbows are cool, though.)

Comment author: Leonhart 31 July 2013 10:23:38PM 2 points [-]

So you're saying you can subjectively distinguish oxygen days from placebo days?

Comment author: gwern 31 July 2013 11:19:49PM 21 points [-]

I've been looking into how to blind this, but I'm afraid the hood just makes the whole thing that much more sexy and erotic.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 August 2013 03:13:30PM 6 points [-]

And thus the new fetish of double-blind bdsm was born...

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 August 2013 03:13:00PM 1 point [-]

(Rainbows are cool, though.)

Meh. I've never seen why they have this position of being axiomatically good. I mean they're nice, but are basically just some colours in the sky.

One confounding factors may be that I'm slightly colourblind (r/g) so maybe I'm not getting the full effect.