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The clearest way to improve discussions here, which has been called for numerous times, is reorganizing the subreddits and adding a few new ones. So far we haven't even got a separate subreddit for meetups, which should be uncontroversial, although I hear it is under development. Despite the simplicity of this proposed change, apparently the codebase makes it difficult. How much would it cost to expedite the development, if that's a possibility, and could we let people donate money directly toward this feature? If it's too expensive, how about cheap alternative approaches, such as adding a menu with links to a handful of "top-level" tags, at least one of which every new post should be tagged with? .
Could people who have been to a substantial number LW meetups (or similar events, such as rationality camps) comment on Ben Goertzel's characterisation of "the prototypical Less Wrong meetup participant"? Is it accurate?
I get he is. But Poe's Law works both ways: there's no self-parody that some clueless outsider won't mistake for real lunacy.
I'd say it's worth it to have some humor and somewhat self-deprecating fun here.
It only shows percentages, not the number of upvotes and downvotes. For example, if you have 100% upvotes, you may not know whether it was one upvote or 20.
ya sorry, i misread things. showing the numbers of upvotes and downvotes would indeed solve the precision problem.
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Open Thread February 25 - March 3
What do you do when you're low on mental energy? I'm a computer science researcher and I have had trouble thinking of anything productive to do when my brain seems to need a break from hard thinking. When I'm really low on mental energy, I go on YouTube, but I feel like that is killing my attention span, and once I go on, I stay too long.
Or to just display the number of upvotes and downvotes.
(hovering your mouse over the karma scores shows that)
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Open Thread for February 18-24 2014
I am looking into noise reduction options for sleeping - I'm a side sleeper, and the foam insert earplugs I've been using so far are extremely uncomfortable to sleep on. It is surprisingly hard to find a comprehensive guide for this that's not trying to sell you something. Do any of the sleep hackers around here have suggestions?
(If this is more appropriate for the stupid questions thread, let me know.)
I've had success with Mack's soft silicone earplugs.
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I'd enjoy seeing information about the benefits, and how the decision differs for rationalists or applies to rationality.
at first glance, this is similar to every other cosmetic surgery: cost, risk, and benefit are all small, and there's enough subjectivity in the value that it's purely personal choice.
I'd say the benefits of cosmetic surgery can sometimes be sizable.
"Sexy" isn't signaling -- it's a characteristic that people (usually) try to signal, more or less successfully. "I'm sexy" basically means "You want me" : note the difference in subjects :-)
Ok, I may have been too vague. I was thinking of the exhibition of sexy behavior, e.g. clothes, dancing/gestures, sex-related language.
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Yes we do.
um, no.
That's old, from before discussion existed, whose existence shows that the problem has been solved.
I now see that you're right about meetups. It has happened, but only 24 days ago.