Comment author: Omid 09 January 2015 02:37:25PM 2 points [-]

How smart do you have to be in order to follow this advice? Are we talking two standard deviations or five?

Comment author: Omid 07 January 2015 05:31:37PM 1 point [-]

Is there a Chrome extension or something that will adjust displayed prices of online merchants to take into account rewards benefits? For example, if my credit card has 1% cashback, the extension could reduce the displayed price to be 1% cheaper.

Comment author: Omid 05 January 2015 04:47:59PM 1 point [-]

So I signed up for a password manager, and even got a complex password. But how do I remember the password? It's a random combination of upper and lower case letters plus numbers. I suppose I could use space repition software to memorize it, but wouldn't that be insecure?

Comment author: Omid 04 January 2015 03:17:02PM 1 point [-]

Longshot, but are there any transgender people here who have signed up for cryonics?

Comment author: Omid 01 January 2015 03:54:01AM 11 points [-]

How do you deal with people who are dominating conversations? I had a New Years party and it was basically 4 hours where either this one guy was talking or someone was talking to him.

Comment author: Omid 27 December 2014 04:23:40PM 11 points [-]

I have two resolution this year:

  1. Transition into a woman.
  2. Get a job that can pay enough that I don't have to depend on my girlfriend for housing.
Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 November 2014 02:03:15AM 1 point [-]

That was part of a brief effort on my part to ban everyone making stupid comments within the LW Facebook Group, which I hadn't actually realized existed but which I was informed was giving people terrible impressions. I deleted multiple posts and banned all commenters who I thought had made stupid comments on them; the "hur hur basilisk mockery" crowd was only one, but I think a perfectly legitimate target for this general sweep. It's still a pretty low-quality group, but it's a lot better than it was before I went through and banned everyone who I saw making more than one stupid comment.

Unfortunately Facebook doesn't seem to have an easy "delete comment and ban commenter from Group" procedure for Android, which makes it harder to repeat this procedure because Android is most of where I check Facebook.

Comment author: Omid 23 November 2014 02:48:28PM 1 point [-]

So just to be clear: If I say "I won't give into the basalisk because Eliezer says I shouldn't", will that protect me from the basilisk? If not, what should I do?

Comment author: blacktrance 28 October 2014 04:24:42PM 5 points [-]

Whether this feeling is irrational depends on what causes it. It makes sense to worry about a community you like becoming popular, since it means that an increasing number of people would join it, potentially reducing its quality.

Comment author: Omid 28 October 2014 04:44:09PM 2 points [-]

I don't think that's what caused my angst, I think I was worried about becoming less special because more people were reading my favorite blog.

Comment author: Omid 28 October 2014 03:05:50PM *  8 points [-]

How do I stop being a hipster? I saw Bryan Caplan advising his readers to read Scott Alexander and my first reaction was "Oh no, a well-known blog is recommending people read my favorite little blog. Now more people will read it and I won't be as special." I know this feeling is irrational, but how can I overcome it?

Comment author: Emily 27 October 2014 04:03:06PM 12 points [-]

Laundry (plus ironing, if you have clothes that require that - I try not to), washing up (I think this is called doing the dishes in America), mopping, hoovering (vacuuming), dusting, cleaning bathroom and kitchen surfaces, cleaning toilets, cleaning windows and mirrors. That might cover the obvious ones? Seems like most of them don't involve much learning but do take a bit of getting round to, if you're anything like me.

Comment author: Omid 27 October 2014 04:11:18PM *  1 point [-]

Thank you, how many hours a week do you spend doing these things?

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