I'm very grateful that I've had a number of pain-free days this past week. I was able to summon up the energy to work on some dormant projects and overall feel much better about life than I did a week ago.
I'm grateful to be born in a time where medicine has the ability to regrow freaking arteries! Seriously, how cool is that?!
Two points:
One, in other threads, your cult member meatpuppets are being obnoxious. Ask them to cut it out, if you would, because their low-information comments are trashing your reputation and making you look like a joke who has to pay people for praise (seriously, that's how it comes across, although most people aren't so blunt as to tell you, and will just silently let you make a mockery of yourself).
Also, as for a response to this comment, this is transparent self-praise, and insofar as you are actually expressing gratitude, you're expressing gratitude that somebody else had a shitty choice to make and you got an opportunity to make yourself look good. Either you don't actually understand what gratitude is - which isn't necessarily a personal fault, it's not an emotion I feel either, but I do understand what it is supposed to be - or you're being oblivious to the idea you're actually expressing here.
Thanks for the feedback about other InIn participants. They're trying to figure out how to engage with Less Wrong well. I strongly encouraged them previously to make sure to engage with posts by folks other than myself. I just checked it out now, and it looks like they're doing that, which is good. But you're right, their comments are relatively low information. I'll ask them to hold further comments until the newbies section is ready.
I'd appreciate you avoiding trying to mindread my expression of gratitude. This exchange with my friend has been dominating...
Hi folks! Building up on the recent experiment and the #LessWrongMoreNice meme, this thread is devoted to any and all expressions of gratitude. Special rules for communication and voting apply here. Please play along!
A lot of research shows that expressing gratitude improves mental and physical health, qualities that most of us want to increase. So in this thread, please express anything you are grateful for, big or small, one-time or continuing, and feel free to post stuff that you would not normally post to Less Wrong. Encourage and support others in what they post in comments, and upvote posts that you like, while downvoting those that don't express the spirit of this thread.
If you want to discuss this thread, please do so in response to this open thread comment.
I'm grateful to you for following the spirit of this thread!