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Is this a reference to Agile methodologies?
I was inspired by the later scenes in A Beautiful Mind, where Nash was still hallucinating as he went about his day but he chose to just ignore his visions of people he knew were not real.
People affected by Charles Bonnet syndrome, according to Wikipedia, are often sane and able to distinguish their hallucinations as hallucinations.
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Rationality Quotes September 2011
A certain amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain; nor need you regret the hours you spend on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions.
~ William Johnson Cory
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Leveling IRL
It took me FOREVER to find http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/User:Cousin_it/Leveling from this page. Is there a way you can edit a link into the OP?
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Rationality Quotes August 2011
Time affluence is like a wonder drug. It eliminates stress. It increases happiness. It helps you engage the world and increases the chance that you'll stumble into something interesting.
~ Cal Newport
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Rationality Quotes: February 2011
Opinions are like sex, you should change your positions if it feels wrong
~ garcia1000, Witchhunt game
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An application of this hierarchy:
Jack the Scarecrow. My crystal healing pills will give you eternal life. For $50.00 each, you need never die, suckers.
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DH0: "I'm not interested for myself, but can I buy you a border collie and give her some? If you're going to live forever, you're going to need a smart friend to make the really tricky decisions."
DH1: What, exactly, is your profit margin on these crystal healing pills? If we don't live forever, would you still make money off of them?
DH2: Any post that ends in the word "suckers" directed at the readers is difficult to read charitably.
DH3: > My crystal healing pills will give you eternal life.
WRONG.
According to this hierarchy, D3 is arguing on a higher level than DH0, DH1, and DH2. And, well, maybe that's correct. "Higher" doesn't necessarily mean "more subtle." But in the absence of this hierarchy, I'd have been tempted to order the arguments from low- to high-level as 0 < 3 < 2 < 1.
(EDITED to remove potential applause light; EDITED again to better hit the idea of DH2)
The DH tier seems to correspond to an upper-bound on the effectiveness of an argument of that tier.