Comment author: L29Ah 12 April 2015 06:03:45PM 2 points [-]

The one that makes people think cognitive biases are distinct entities.

Comment author: L29Ah 12 April 2015 05:53:04PM 1 point [-]

I'm unable to measure compassion so i don't.

Comment author: L29Ah 06 April 2015 04:52:22AM 0 points [-]

How many european kings can you name, off the top of your head?

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 February 2015 09:23:48PM 1 point [-]

I think there no good reason to think that every ejaculation has the same effect.

Apart from that a high ejaculation frequency reduces testosterone levels. That means you are less motivated but your immune system is stronger.

Comment author: L29Ah 02 February 2015 05:17:37AM 0 points [-]

I think there no good reason to think that every ejaculation has the same effect.

Why do you think so?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 31 January 2015 11:26:01PM *  8 points [-]

Or we need a compelling reason why this topic is worth having a discussion over to the point where it overrides basic taboos. Signaling matters.

Reasons to downvote or dlslike this post as is that are either independent of or compounded by taboo concerns:

1) This could have easily been an open-thread question rather than a discussion post. 2) This only applies to half the population but that wasn't even addressed in the post. One is thus heavily implicitly assuming that all readers are male. 3) No apparent effort was made to find out anything else about the question before posting. 4) Unlike breaking some taboos, there was no attempt made to present an argument that this might be a taboo worth breaking. 5) The language used signals immaturity; "good fap" is not mature language. One can do a much better job breaking a taboo or getting people to tolerate it if one doesn't come across as immature. 6) You mentioned a Wikipedia article but didn't link to it other than to use a small, out of context quote where you didn't even give enough information to figure out what protective effects it was talking about. 7) You are a very low karma, relatively unknown user. We'd like to pretend we're good about looking for content more than who is posting, but realistically people are going to give substantially more benefit of the doubt to established users who they recognize as producing good content with decent ideas. 8) Implicitly assuming that ejaculation, orgasm and a satisfactory masturbatory experience are functionally identical (there are people here with significant others among other issues).

Comment author: L29Ah 01 February 2015 07:02:26AM *  -6 points [-]

2) This only applies to half the population but that wasn't even addressed in the post.

I've addressed it in the topic. Also it applies to 90% of the lesswrong readers, according to the polls.

4) Unlike breaking some taboos, there was no attempt made to present an argument that this might be a taboo worth breaking.

I don't see any arguments that this taboo might be one that worth including in one's set.

5) The language used signals immaturity; "good fap" is not mature language. One can do a much better job breaking a taboo or getting people to tolerate it if one doesn't come across as immature.

Can i haz ppl addressing the essence of my messagez?

Comment author: L29Ah 31 January 2015 11:39:09AM -8 points [-]

LessWrong community fails at tabooed topics it seems.

Comment author: L29Ah 29 December 2014 11:51:45PM 0 points [-]

Prostitute?

I'd put some more information on my knowledge and more specific skills.

Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 25 December 2014 04:49:21PM 1 point [-]

This is interesting but I don't fully understand what you're trying to trying to get across. Explain further? Ie what does it mean to overcome yourself?

Comment author: L29Ah 26 December 2014 05:40:37PM 1 point [-]

I often try to persuade myself i'll change some part of my behaviour at some peculiar point of time instead of researching why i still haven't done this. By "overcoming myself" i mean modifying the behaviour one part of me doesn't like in favour of some other behaviour some other part of me doesn't like.

Comment author: L29Ah 25 December 2014 03:20:24PM 2 points [-]

I'm going to stop making new years resolutions and stop behaving like i need to "overcome" myself in favour of some poorly explored goals and social stimuli.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 18 December 2014 04:14:02AM 0 points [-]

Suppose you don't have any time to figure out which people would be better. And suppose no one else will know that you were able to pull a switch.

Honestly, it seems like your notion of ethics is borderline psychopathic.

Comment author: L29Ah 18 December 2014 05:40:44AM 0 points [-]

Suppose you don't have any time to figure out which people would be better. And suppose no one else will know that you were able to pull a switch.

Then my current algorythms will do the habitual stuff I'm used to do in similar situations or randomly explore the possible outcomes (as in "play"), like in every other severely constrained situation.

Honestly, it seems like your notion of ethics is borderline psychopathic.

What does this mean?

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