PipFoweraker comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PipFoweraker 06 January 2016 12:29:28AM 1 point [-]

Combining the first two would likely result in a more-memorable-than-most experience.

Comment author: Clarity 06 January 2016 02:45:03AM 0 points [-]

I've reconsidered the first one. It's no longer on my list. Pleasurable as it may be, it sets a precedence that may make me less happy overall. I'm a forward thinking hedonist :) Another goal I forgot to write down was sperm donation, but my friends helped me realise that isn't what I want to do!

Comment author: username2 06 January 2016 12:44:47PM 0 points [-]

What do you mean?

Comment author: Clarity 06 January 2016 10:01:13PM *  0 points [-]

Unprotected sex will be pleasurable, but until I have a stable partner, it poses a concurrent sexual health threat. If I have infrequent unprotected sex to lower my risk, I would find protected sex less pleasurable. Ignorance is bliss.

This my new 'intentional list' rather than a goal list for January:

  • Normative interpersonal relations
  • Normative self concept
  • Normative gmail and google drive activity
  • No more obsessive music listening
  • Normative sleep patterns
  • Normative note taking
  • Normative scheduling and calendars
  • Normative emailing and writing
  • Normative career
  • Normative living situations
  • Normative family relations
  • Normative linguistic patterns
  • Not volunteering
  • Not enterpreneurialising
  • Not being a sperm donor
  • Not buying domain names
  • Political moderation
  • Heteronormativity
  • Neurotypicality
  • Psychotypicality
  • Not associating with socially a-normative friends

tl;dr: be more normal

Comment author: polymathwannabe 05 February 2016 03:52:32PM 0 points [-]

It's risky to aim at such a strong level of conformity. If you go that way, you'll be letting social pressure mold you into an obedient everyman, with nothing to make you distinctly you.