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Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
Did someone link this recently? It seems to have gotten a new burst of votes.
Yes, Brienne herself posted it to Facebook (commenting "This post does not have nearly as many upvotes as it deserves") and Eliezer liked her post.
Although it has been years, and Anonymous may never see this, I just want to point out to any future readers that have their best thoughts in the shower that decent waterproof notepads now exist. "AquaNotes" is one I have tried, and it works exactly as advertised. And the paper isn't unreasonably thick either...
Alas, I fear that the very presence of such a notepad would eliminate whatever feature it is of showers that make them such frequent idea-generators.
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LessWrong, can you help me find an article I read a few months ago, I think here?
No, I was originally certain that I was recalling something from this sequence, but I ultimately reread the whole sequence and didn't find it...that's what led to me posting here.
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LessWrong, can you help me find an article I read a few months ago, I think here?
Seeing as how the thing I was actually thinking of turned out to be from Cracked, let's just go ahead and say that this is what I was really going for, okay? But seriously, thanks for this link; it's a great source.
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LessWrong, can you help me find an article I read a few months ago, I think here?
I think you must be right: as Alejandro1 points out, the #1 item on the list is pretty much exactly what I described, even down to the healthcare headline example. I generally don't go on Cracked, since I find it maybe a quarter as bad as TVTropes in the sucks-you-in-forever department, but something I read must have linked to it. Thanks for finding it!
Just a heads up, this sort of question is better suited to an open thread. :)
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LessWrong, can you help me find an article I read a few months ago, I think here?
Thank you, I've been reading LW content for a while now, but I'm new to the discussion boards.
LessWrong, can you help me find an article I read a few months ago, I think here?
I'm sorry in advance for a post that doesn't really offer the chance for any substantive discussion, but I am engaged in the most futile of all tasks — trying to find again something I read on the Internet six months ago — and I need all the help I can get. So onward to the point:
Within the last 6 months I read an article. In my memory of the event I read it on LessWrong, but perhaps it was on Ovcoming Bias, or linked to from a LW post, or something. The main thesis of the piece was that American politics is covered in the press as a spectator sport, and issues that have enormous impact for millions of Americans are treated as though their only importance lies in their political ramifications. E.g., newspaper headlines say things like "Victory for Obama as Congress passes healthcare bill," as if the only importance of the bill was that it constituted a political win, as if the American public ought to care more about the political victories and defeats of one guy in Washington than about the actual ramifications of the law on their own healthcare.
Does anyone recognize the sound of this article? I have searched LessWrong in vain, but is it nonetheless here somewhere? Is anyone so familiar with the site that they can confirm definitively that it is not from here, so I can at least cross it off the list? In short, help?
All my thanks.
True, but it might be worth the risk if it's the kind of project that will expand to fill whatever time you allow for it and yet it's not that important to you. In other words, it's worth the pain of the two fifteen-hour days because starting it sooner means a lot more total time spent on it.
This is the solution to procrastination I finally settled on during my senior year of college, when I was deepest in its throes. My biggest hurdle was that I no longer cared about the work, and rather than try to fight the apathy, I embraced it. I said to myself, the reason I don't want to work on this lab report is because it's a stupid assignment and I don't care about it, so what sense does it make trying to force myself to work on it for hours and hours? Instead, I think it's worth, at most, 4 hours of my time, and it's due at 1:30 on Tuesday afternoon, so I will purposefully not start it until 9:30 Tuesday morning, and—and this was the crucial step—not feel in the least bad about the fact that I haven't started it yet up until that point. And whaddaya know, I still graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Is this an ideal long-term solution? Presumably not, though maybe for some people. And it wouldn't work on a task that legitimately required a hundred hours to complete. But it was a great solution for me in that context, when the desirable end-goal of the diploma was in sight, and I just needed to keep handing in my homework long enough to get there.
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Thanks for clearing that up. That was my guess, I was just confused that it suddenly popped up without me ever having heard about it. Is it popular/well-known? When I googled it, there were no hits for an explanation.
While there have been many attempts at a set of such pronouns and none ever became standard, this is the set I see by far most commonly. Several non-gender-binary-identifying people I know use ze/zir/zirs as their preferred pronouns. They definitely crop up in many more places than just here and SlateStarCodex, as someone else replied, but it tends to be mostly in communities that have a particular focus on gender identity.