Comment author: skeptical_lurker 13 April 2016 07:04:37PM 3 points [-]

What's TNC? Google did not help.

Comment author: Alicorn 13 April 2016 07:09:32PM 4 points [-]

The Northern Caves, probably. (I like Floornight by the same author better.)

Comment author: PhilGoetz 01 April 2016 02:16:43AM *  -1 points [-]

I really wish the LW editor would strip font specifications out of the HTML when I do a paste into its editor while creating a new post. It's a pain in the ass to have to go thru the raw HTML by hand and strip out all the font specifications. I have never yet wanted to copy the fonts from quotes and links that I've copy-pasted.

Comment author: Alicorn 01 April 2016 03:42:34AM 2 points [-]

Didn't there use to be a formatting stripping button?

Comment author: Alicorn 28 March 2016 04:14:59AM 26 points [-]

I am literally pregnant right now and wasn't sure how to answer the ones about how many children I have or if I plan more. (I went with "one" and "uncertain" but could have justified "zero" and "yes").

Comment author: Alicorn 15 February 2016 07:25:38AM 3 points [-]

Does this have any immediate safe implications for people of my acquaintance who are tired all the time? Should I be offering them thyroids? How do you serve thyroid?

Comment author: Alicorn 31 January 2016 06:34:08AM 1 point [-]

I am occasionally summoned to address spam. I currently have the ability to ban comments, but not accounts. Should I talk to someone about acquiring this ability or just refer anyone trying to summon me over to you instead?

In response to LessWrong 2.0
Comment author: Alicorn 03 December 2015 08:11:12AM 33 points [-]

I have an old list of halfbaked post ideas. At some point I lost sight of what things were "rationality things" and what things were just "things, that I happened to want to talk about with rationalists, because those are the cool people"; and in the presence of this confusion I defaulted to categorizing everything as the latter - because it was easy; I live here now; I can go weeks without interacting with anybody who isn't at least sort of rationalist-adjacent. If I want to talk to rationalists about a thing I can just bring it up the next time I'm at a party, or when my roommates come downstairs; I don't have to write an essay and subject it to increasingly noisy judgment about whether it is in the correct section/website/universe.

I think "things that you happen to want to talk about with rationalists" is a legit category to want an outlet for and having an explicit place for that (which has virtues like "is not literally Tumblr") would be nice. Useful norms might include: one-paragraph OPs normalized, tongue-in-cheek "Rational [Household Object / Unrelated Hobby / Basic Life Skill]" titles allowed/encouraged, granting OP some veto power about what sorts of comments and commenters are allowed under their post, aggressively encouraged and standard-formatted tagging system.

Comment author: anna_macdonald 17 October 2015 12:44:09AM 9 points [-]

Hi LWers.

My brothers got me into HPMOR, I started reading a couple sequences, switched over to reading the full Rationality: AI to Zombies, and recently finished that. The last few days, I've been browsing around LW semi-randomly, reading posts about starting to apply the concepts and about fighting akrasia.

I'm guessing I'm atypical for an LW reader: I'm a stay-at-home mom. Any others of those on here?

Comment author: Alicorn 17 October 2015 01:40:34AM 5 points [-]

I'm not a mom yet but I'm effectively a house spouse :)

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.

In response to comment by Alicorn on Polyhacking
Comment author: Philip_W 11 September 2015 08:18:41PM 1 point [-]

How about now?

In response to comment by Philip_W on Polyhacking
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.

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