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Comment author: cousin_it 20 February 2011 07:28:15AM *  0 points [-]

Overall you're right. I apologize.

But your original post listed video games as a rationalist hobby. That certainly felt like a "stretch" to me, and to many other commenters too, I think. (Crypto, on the other hand, sounds like a very good recommendation.)

Comment author: Wei_Dai 20 February 2011 08:56:51AM 0 points [-]

The title said "rationalist hobbies" (which I now think was a big mistake) but the post explained that these are hobbies that teach rationality lessons. I rarely play video games anymore, but I still think the lesson that hobby taught was a very valuable one that I may not have gotten from any other source. Most of us here probably do not need that specific lesson at this point, but I thought I'd include it to help explain how some of us got to where we are today.