Dr_Manhattan comments on My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination - LessWrong

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 10 February 2012 06:54:08PM 2 points [-]

I was there when someone was inviting Luke to watch the SuperBowl at a sports bar. Luke did not know SuperBowl was that day. He then politely turned down the invitation and went to work on a paper or some SIAI business.

Anyone I know would feel it was his right as a full-blooded American to not do work on Superbowl Sunday. I'm pretty convinced we're dealing with a significant outlier as far as productivity is concerned.

Comment author: badger 10 February 2012 07:18:02PM 6 points [-]

squints not sure if sarcastic or serious...

Comment author: gwern 10 February 2012 07:02:21PM *  8 points [-]

I don't think that's all that impressive.... shunning pro sports is almost a shibboleth among geeks and nerds. I imagine quite a few American LWers ignored the Super Bowl to do other stuff (for non-Americans, ignoring World Cup stuff) - I know I did, and I don't consider myself productive at all.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 February 2012 07:52:26AM 4 points [-]

I don't consider myself productive at all.

You are wrong.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 February 2012 08:06:53AM *  2 points [-]

Evidence to the contrary.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 February 2012 08:15:41AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure if you're serious or teasing. Because he's commenting and posting a lot on LW, he isn't productive?

Comment author: [deleted] 11 February 2012 08:45:52AM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure if you're serious or teasing.

Both, as usual.

Because he's commenting and posting a lot on LW, he isn't productive?

That's the IRC channel. Of course, most of that comes from his tendency to paste walls of text at random intervals.

Comment author: Desrtopa 10 February 2012 07:00:52PM 3 points [-]

Well, to be fair, forgoing participation in Superbowl Sunday to work doesn't require extraordinary productivity. It could simply be a result of not giving a rat's ass about football. I know I don't.

Comment author: thomblake 16 February 2012 07:31:36PM 0 points [-]

Anyone I know would feel it was his right as a full-blooded American to not do work on Superbowl Sunday.

Even though other people have weighed in on this, I felt I needed to go back and comment. I couldn't tell at first whether you were serious, and then I remembered the Super Bowl seems really important to great big masses of Americans.

My D&D group was meeting as normal. Someone suggested watching the Super Bowl commercials on Hulu, and several others didn't know the Super Bowl was happening that day. (Personally, I had to skip D&D to work on my dissertation).

For a funny example of the shunning-pro-sports-as-shibboleth on Twitter, see this conversation.

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