Comment author: Sherincall 13 September 2015 07:42:43PM 0 points [-]

Are there any plans to make it available for download as a pdf/epub/mobi/txt/etc? Alternatively, would you mind if I created one?

Comment author: Alicorn 15 September 2015 06:06:41PM 0 points [-]

If you make one, I'll put it up on my site! Kindle edition awaits cover art, as does paperback.

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Comment author: Philip_W 11 September 2015 08:18:41PM 1 point [-]

How about now?

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Comment author: Alicorn 13 September 2015 04:12:55AM 6 points [-]

We got married almost a year ago :D. I can't keep track of who-all spouse is dating (it fluctuates a lot) but I have three other nodes on the Big Unruly Chart Thing, one of whom is also dating spouse. Going very smoothly :)

Comment author: Alicorn 02 September 2015 08:52:12PM 21 points [-]

I finished a novel.

Comment author: Alicorn 31 July 2015 10:41:10PM 1 point [-]

I wanted to go buy some rings to play with, but they don't come in a full range of sizes (the smallest one is a size and a half bigger than my wedding ring) and also the shopping cart doesn't seem to work. Is there anyplace else that sells them?

Comment author: Alicorn 02 September 2015 07:46:51PM 0 points [-]

Update: I bought some rings. They're okay. It's pretty hard to play with them and keep them from snapping to surfaces, and their sensitivity is pretty low - to get them close enough to stuff that you can feel them pulling is to get them about half an inch from the point where they'll hit the thing they're grabbing. My coating hasn't come off yet but I've only had them for a couple hours. They can make my computer go to sleep, which I already knew was a magnets thing because I wear magnetically clasped watches. I don't feel like I have an interesting new sense, but I have an interesting if alas delicate fidget toy, and my roommates have played with them too. Would not buy again, do not plan to go through the hassle of figuring out how to return.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 24 August 2015 11:13:10PM 0 points [-]

I say,

99.8% likely this is an upset outsider baiting for reactions in order to gauge our degree of cultishness.

0.1% likely this a sincere believer.

0.1% likely this is Eliezer messing with our heads.

Comment author: Alicorn 24 August 2015 11:45:17PM 8 points [-]

I feel like "in order to gauge our cultishness" is too specific/conjunctive for that much of your probability mass.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 24 August 2015 09:51:45PM 5 points [-]

This has to be a mass sockpuppet upvote thing, right?

Comment author: Alicorn 24 August 2015 09:52:49PM 3 points [-]

Yeah, probably.

Comment author: David_Bolin 24 August 2015 09:37:00PM 3 points [-]

The post would have to be toned down quite a bit in order to appear to be possibly sincere.

Comment author: Alicorn 24 August 2015 09:40:47PM 8 points [-]

I'm just used to the detractors misspelling or abbreviating "Yudkowsky", so this was jarring.

Comment author: Fluttershy 24 August 2015 07:30:42PM 2 points [-]

I've always been annoyed by how icky traditional sunscreen makes me feel, so I was happy to find out that there's a roll-on sunscreen that works reasonably well. I've used it a couple of times now, and while I wasn't outside for long enough that I would have burned when I used it in either case-- and therefore can't comment on the effectiveness of a single layer of the stuff-- I would say that applying it was much quicker and easier than applying traditional sunscreen. While applying sunscreen isn't the lowest hanging fruit in health interventions out there, it's still useful for reducing one's risk of death from melanoma (yay for living longer!).

Comment author: Alicorn 24 August 2015 09:38:51PM 3 points [-]

I was told a while ago that Asian sunscreen is different and less greasy and I bought some Japanese sunscreen from the internet. It feels much better than the regular American stuff.

Comment author: Alicorn 24 August 2015 09:33:44PM 19 points [-]

My attempts at gauging sincerity are thrown off by the fact that you can spell his name correctly.

Comment author: Alicorn 31 July 2015 10:41:10PM 1 point [-]

I wanted to go buy some rings to play with, but they don't come in a full range of sizes (the smallest one is a size and a half bigger than my wedding ring) and also the shopping cart doesn't seem to work. Is there anyplace else that sells them?

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