Lumifer comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: eggman 19 February 2014 12:57PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 20 February 2014 06:54:29PM 4 points [-]

Well, normally you sneeze (too much) either because the room is too dusty, or because you have a mild allergy to something in that room.

Does the room look dusty? If you don't wipe a horizontal surface, how much dust would accumulate in, say, a week?

The allergy thing is more complicated, but one way to test it would be to take some OTC anti-hystamine and see if that stops your sneezing. If it does you should update towards being allergic to something in that room.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2014 10:16:20PM 0 points [-]

The room is somewhat dusty. Dust accumulates visibly on my desk after something like 4 days, I think.