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Utilitarianism seems to indicate that the greatest good for the most people generally revolves around their feelings. A person feeling happy and confident is a desired state, a person in pain and misery is undesirable. But what about taking selfish actions that hurt another person's feelings? If I'm in a...

Solve for: The probability that she's over me given that she didn't answer my call. Estimated probabilities: The probability that she'd miss my call given that she was over me: 90% The probability that she's over me: 30% The probability that she'd miss my call given she was not over...

The cognitive distortion is called "catastrophizing", I think. I'm afraid of unexpected, strongly negative events occurring to me without warning. Nothing specific, just a generalized fear. That fear is crippling me. Worse, there's a part of me that feels that fear is keeping me safe. "If I let go of...

Eliezer Yudkowsky once wrote that > [...] when you look at what Sherlock Holmes does - you can't go out and do it at home. Sherlock Holmes is not really operating by any sort of reproducible method. He is operating by magically finding the right clues and carrying out magically...