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Are these life advice threads (like how to get a job in Australia, or how to be poly-amorous) appropriate for Less Wrong? Because if they are, there's a few procedural knowledge gaps I'd like to fill.
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LW Women Submissions: On Misogyny
Yeah, if we could use these posts to learn about women's experiences instead of constantly doubting everything they say...that would be great.
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What Rate of Return Should You Expect?
If you're saving for your own retirement, you might want to consider the risk of dying before you can spend that money. A 25-year old male has an 18.6% chance of dying before he reaches 65, so he should discount his expected return accordingly.
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Open thread, March 17-31, 2013
I've never heard of this before but reading the article reminded me of an experience I had in a Pentecostal setting. I was praying for the Holy Spirit to make me speak in tongues. I was very concentrated and prayed a chant over and over. I was lying in my bed and my chest started tingling. It was sort of like how your leg feels when it falls asleep. I also felt physical warmth and muscle relaxation, and lot of pleasure. The tingling spread all over my body and I became paralyzed. But it felt good so I didn't care.
I re-induced it lots of times until I saw a Darren Brown video and concluded that my effect came from a placebo and God wasn't real.After I had been an atheist for a few months, I successfully re-induced it. But the novelty has worn-off and I don't do it anymore.
Less Wrong is about rationality. Surely there are better ways to have fun than to arbitrarily redistribute our wealth. Unless you somehow plan to make some of the money go to charity, or not involve money at all, I don't see the point.
I was going to do it for honor/karma.
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Open thread, March 17-31, 2013
Would it be inappropriate to host a Less Wrong March Madness bracket pool?
Edit: Not going to do it.
Are you familiar with the hardware overhang argument?
No, and Google is failing me. Is there somewhere I can read about it?
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Open Thread, March 1-15, 2013
If computer hardware improvement slows down, will this hasten or delay AGI?
My naive hypothesis is that if hardware improvement slows, more work will be put into software improvement. Since AGI is a software problem, this will hasten AGI. But this is not an informed opinion.
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Boring Advice Repository
As a man, don't get married unless she is very rich.
As a woman, get married if the law is on your side(which it generally is in most western countries) and if the man has enough financial resources.
Please delete this comment and don't bring up the subject again. Or if you must, bring up the subject only in the Politics Open Thread.
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Cal Newport and Scott H. Young are collobarating to form a start deliberate practice course by email. Here's an excerpt from on Cal's emails to inquiring people:
Does this sound like it's worth $100?