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I am not sure that was the point. My impression is that he was trying to change his perception of the time-vs-money trade-off and make himself more willing to trade money for time (and convenience).
"Not used" money is also known as savings.
My characterization of Winter's purpose in engaging in that exercise was based on this sentence:
I may or may not have gone into the yard, made a fire, and slowly fed $100 into the flames while concentrating on how money is useless if you don't use it.
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Nick Winter implies that he burned $100 (!) to impress on him the idea that money is useless if not used.
YMMV.
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Why do you really believe what you believe regarding controversial subjects?
That depends on if I think modern / first-world society has significant reason to claim epistemic superiority over their past / third-world counterparts. In most areas of thought there's a concept of progress and building on the accomplishments of the past, and to a very large degree the experts that benefited the most from that progress are concentrated in first-world countries.
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Why do you really believe what you believe regarding controversial subjects?
There are innumerable indicators of epistemic superiority in addition to physical or temporal location, and some of these are arguably more reliable. I'm skeptical that the topics that your society regards as "controversial" will coincide with those that you'd be warranted in suspending judgment about in deference to your epistemic superiors.
For myself, I generally try not to have an opinion on almost any controversial issue.
Many issues that are now relatively uncontroversial where once controversial, or are still controversial in other parts of the world. Do you also suspend judgment about such issues? Is your reference class the roughly 100 billion people that have ever lived?
He didn't exactly say that though, did he? He seems to just be saying that he doesn't think it's viable for achieving a certain kind of relationship. It's not clear to me that he even had a poly experience at all. Upvoted for relevance though.
His position is summarized in the following two paragraphs:
I think that polyamory - multiple consenting partners - is a relationship style that can work well for some people in some life situations. If you want to prioritize freedom (keep your contracts minimal and short), variety (of personalities you interplay with), or exploration of types of partnerships, it might make sense.
However, if you wish to prioritize true love (depth of intimacy with a hopefully forever partner) or a stable family, I think polyamory is a style which is at best deeply challenging and at worst fundamentally opposed to those goals. So I want couples with these priorities who are considering polyamory to make sure they aren't ignoring the tradeoffs in a setting where the cost of failure is significantly more than a broken heart.
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What's a relatively easy, not very time-or-resource-consuming thing I'm probably not doing that would have a noticeable popularly desired positive impact on my life within a month? :)
How do you measure your progress?
If you are a Duolingo user, you can use their metrics (levels completed, total points, length of streak, percent of text readable, etc.).
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Non-obvious skills with highly measurable progress?
Dual N-back
A Lung improvement machine $11
Sprinting
See The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast! by Josh Kaufman, whom I met at a CFAR workshop.
As it turnes out Rhaidot (https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4928277/Rhaidot) continues his work on Spanish translation. I contacted him on fanfiction.net and right now to assess usefulness of Duo translation we will look at result on Chapter 31 (https://www.duolingo.com/translation/9bdbcdf84aee1f89e3b7ba2c35065a79) From my experience of translation having bulk of text translated even if in medium quality is of great help.
I do not know yet which tools he uses, so maybe as he works right now it will be hard to work together. If you still want to help with proof-reading I would recommend to contact him directly.
Thanks. I took a quick look at the Chapter 31 translation and I regret to say that the quality is not very good. It might be that the document is still at an early stage, and might improve significantly as more translators proof-check it. Currently it looks roughly like a Google Translate translation.
I'll contact Rhaidot later today.
By the way, I hope you are feeling better. :-)
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Interesting post!
Christian Rudder from OkTrends (OkCupid's blog) found that the shape of the distribution of male attractiveness ratings varied significantly across female ratees. Did you observe a similar phenomenon?