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Is being "sexy" basically signaling promiscuity plus signaling being a fun intercourse partner?
Right, murder of someone already dead
I see I misinterpreted your earlier comment. My mistake, vote corrected.
Even assuming your premise is correct (that cryopreserved humans can not be considered in any sense 'alive') it wouldn't be a misuse of the word suicide for that reason. Anissimov would be using the typical use of the word to express a claim that you believe to be false.
I just said it was interesting, that's all
interesting use of the word "suicide"
True, it could be "murder", "manslaughter" or "tragic accident" instead.
Right, murder of someone already dead
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PSA: Very important policy change at Cryonics Institute
Being on dry ice for two weeks is suicide. That's my take based on intermittent research for the past 12 years and talking to numerous cryobiologists.
interesting use of the word "suicide"
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Good luck, Mr. Rationalist
Should you also stop saying "goodbye" since the origin of the word is 'God be with you?' Or stop called celestial bodies "planets" because they do not in fact 'wander?' Good to be rational, less good to enshrine rationality against contamination by humanity and language and culture and history.
Here is a rational take on luck (4 page PDF, recommended)...
http://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/the_luck_factor.pdf
it's a question of live vs. dead metaphors
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LW Women Entries- LW Meetups
If it was true that "most of the women who come here are dragged by someone else" then asking why she's there is probably a question whose answer would yield a relatively high amount of information about her. I don't see how the question could imply that the asker resented her presence (but maybe that's because of my poor social skills).
Being socially naive, I'm drawn to Crocker's Rules:
Declaring yourself to be operating by "Crocker's Rules" means that other people are allowed to optimize their messages for information, not for being nice to you.
But I suppose someone less naive might know how to optimize messages for information even better, by realizing that politeness has benefits that I can't see as well.
...but people (around me, at least, in the DC area) do say "Er..." literally, sometimes. It appears to be pronounced that way when the speaker wants to emphasize the pause, as far as I can tell.
I hear "er", literally (rhotically), quite infrequently and I always assumed that people said it that way because of seeing "er" in written English and not knowing that it was intended to be pronounced "uh"; similarly, I've heard "arg" spoken by people who thought "argh" from written English was pronounced that way.
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"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.