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If animals lead more happy than unhappy lives on the margin is eating them marginally good because incentivising further production? If they live unhappy lives is eating them marginally good because it expedites their good, on the margin
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Open thread, Sep. 12 - Sep. 18, 2016
What's the best ways to upgrade my defence mechanisms from immature splitting and projection in addition to seeing a psychologist?
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Stupid Questions September 2016
About to quit another job slash offer and dump my first chick. A win for self respect: I tried to change gear for an upcoming night shift - my first. Instead, I have decided I will resign instead of taking this job since it entails too great a compromise on my social lifestyle and health. I win the best in bed award today 😏 I spent almost all today in bed. I had the chance to pay attention to my thoughts. I learned that 90% of my thoughts seem to be unproductive and unpleasant worrying. What are some technique to eliminate worrying?
This quote helps me recall that rationality isn't about worrying - which is so easy for me to forget:
''Remember that the term Rational was intended to signify a discriminating attention to every several thing and freedom from negligence; and that Equanimity is the voluntary acceptance of things which are assigned to thee by the common nature; and the Magnanimity is the elevation of the intelligent part above the pleasurable or painful sensations of the flesh, and above that poor thing called fame, and death, and all such things. If then, thou maintainest thyself in the possession of these names, without desiring to be called by these names by others, thou wilt be another person and wilt enter into another life.'
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Stupid Questions September 2016
Ego is an enemy of happiness and productivity.
How can I overcome ego related to relationship quality, stress, health, career, egolessness, psychological skills, attractiveness, intelligence, victimhood, effort/work and pleasure?
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Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016
My girlfriend and I disagreed about focussing on poor vs richer countries in terms of doing good. She made an argument along the lines of:
'In poorer countries the consumer goods are targeted to that class of poor people so making difference in inequality in places like Australia is more important than in poor countries because they are deprived of a supply of goods because the consumer culture is targeted towards the wealthier middle class.'
What do you make of it?
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Open Thread, Aug. 1 - Aug 7. 2016
The Neglected/Tractable/Scale framework for cause prioritisation is a blatant rip off of the Hanlon method (See page 22 of Priority Setting for Research for Health. Economists, you've made a name for yourself cannibalising other disciplines. You underestimate health, however - biostatisticians, epidemiologists and clinical researchers have fended off 'health economists' for years. With this, LessWrong, I say goodbye.
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Rationality Quotes August 2016
‘We can forget that it is often painful to be a narcissist. It is not easy always having to be Admired/Admiring or Contemptuous, in order to avoid - desperately - the Contemptible pole. If we are lucky enough to usually inhabit a more normal Self-State (e.g. "reasonably competent; Respectful of-Respected by others; relaxed about being Ordinary"), can we find compassion for Narcissists who have not achieved this?’
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Rationality Quotes August 2016
“We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
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Is the NEET lifestyle of welfare more pleasant for the individual than a working life?