army1987 comments on Open thread, August 5-11, 2013 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: David_Gerard 05 August 2013 06:50AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2013 11:31:47AM 1 point [-]

People talking to each other about their lives and their interests! Success!

Comment author: RichardKennaway 06 August 2013 01:01:17PM 0 points [-]

I was thinking more like two people each trying to get the other person to do that, like people at a door getting jammed saying "After you," "After you," etc.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2013 03:06:34PM 3 points [-]

All the times this has happened to me, one person would come up with a Schelling-pointy reason why the other person's recent life was more interesting (e.g. they had just come back from a trip abroad or something).

Comment author: Ben_LandauTaylor 06 August 2013 02:40:57PM 1 point [-]

I have never actually seen this happen, and I use that method all the time. I don't have an explanation for why, since I rarely think about problems I don't have.