After I first read this article about a year ago, I set out to be more honest in all my conversations. (At this point in time it has become a part of my persona and I no longer do it consciously.) There are a few things I've noticed since I made the switch:

• It is easier for me to think clearly during social events. I suspect this is because I no longer have to generate lies and keep track of all of them.

• I have become more outgoing, although undoubtedly more socially awkward. Occasionally, a person will be shocked at how carelessly I reveal something considered to be embarrassing.

• It is easier for me to detect certain lies. I attribute this to my being able to think more clearly, because as Eliezer points out, detecting falsehood might be negatively correlated to being honest.

Note that there is still much more room for me to improve, and my personal reflections on this matter are likely to be deeply flawed.

On what I suspect to be a related side note, I notice that while in math class, I quickly lose interest in solving a problem if I already know that I know how to solve it.

Too far away for me. Maybe next time...

Not at all obvious, but there are very few hypotheses that could be specified as briefly. What took ten years was figuring out how to get from the very short specification into an algebraic expression that satisfied its constraints.

A bit like, if the theory was 'just' Fermat's Last Theorem, proving it could take a while.

Would someone be kind enough to give me a brief description of what happens at these meet ups?