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Right now, the poll is at 14 to 1. Poll results don't translate straightforwardly to net harm, but these numbers are pretty clear. So shall we implement some sort of official or unofficial safeguard against it happening again, either by banning certain topics, or by imposing stricter rules on how to discuss them?
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Hi, this comment caused me to vote in this poll, in protest of its validity. I do agree actually that sanctions should be made, preferably norm based ones like lessdazed suggested. The protest is what the poll is clear of exactly. Such a poll is representative of the outliers. Specifically, anyone past the threshold it takes to make a vote. If you conclusions are based on that subset of people, then I have no disagreement.
Newcomb and Procrastination
Sorry if someone has covered this before, but I had an interesting thought. Sometimes I'll make a deal with myself, I'll say I'll goof off for X minutes but then I have to work for Y minutes afterwards. Often times, when the time is up, I won't follow through on the deal. What's interesting is I that feel like a causal agent being asked to just leave the money that's lying right there. I'm only going to give myself chances to goof off if I trust myself to get back to work but by the time the time for work comes, I'm in some sense a different person, no longer bound or endangered by old agreements. Omega (old me) is gone and never coming back. This all of course ignore long term goals, moral satisfactions, etc.
Working memory and driving
I've been trying to learn how to drive and unfortunately I suck at it. Some combination of a stressful teacher and hyperfocusing have made it very difficult to learn. My biggest problem is with the multitasking aspect. Remembering to put on the turn signal while stopping and and checking my speed and watching out for other cars, etc. It's difficult for me, I forget or miss things. One thing I was considering may possibly help is using dual n-back to boost my working memory. Does anyone have any thoughts on the likely effectiveness of this?
Play paranoid debating at home!
I was reading the wiki article on Paranoid debating and I noticed that there was no good source of facts for the game. I suggest anyone interested in it check out a party game called Wits and Wagers. It's an interesting game where everyone is given a trivia question with a numerical answer. Everyone writes down their guess, then bets on the answers, with the more extreme answers paying out better. It's a cool game and a good source of numerical trivia.
How do autistic people learn how to read people's emotions?
From my understanding, people on the autism spectrum have difficulty reading people's emotions and general social cues. I'm curious how these people develop these skills and what one can do to improve them. I ask this as a matter of personal interest; while I am somewhat neurotypical, I feel this is an area where I am very lacking.
(Sidenote: would this be considered an appropriate used of the discussion section?)
Boredom as a defense mechanism?
I've seen boredom before being used as a way to detach from the world. Is there any material on boredom being used as a defense mechanism?
I explicitly uninstalled my other browsers, in point of fact. Reinstalling them is enough trouble that it's no worth it. I know that I've known about the disable-the-addon trick, but I definitely forgot about it.
It'll be interesting to see if you've just sabotaged me with the reminder.
Good news! The latest version of Leechblock allows you to disable the disable and uninstall buttons!
This would need some impressive anti-troll precautions. Or at least a way to temporarily disable the horn, so nobody can blast it when you're in the middle of a video chat with a client, but then that'd be a source of temptation.
One possible solution is to build a set of training data, which with a tagged series of sceenshots and fake responses. So the watcher wouldn't know for sure whether they were getting a real person or old data. heck, you could use that element to moderate previous watchers.
This only has a template for a clever comeback, without actually making sense. Did I miss something?
I suspect this is a reference to some of the more unseemly parts of the internet. If you want to gouge out your eyes, look up 4chan.
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One that I realized quite quickly, I have an uncomfortably strong level of empathy. Or more accurately, a strong discomfort towards emotional disharmony in others. The strongest is in strong arguments or social awkwardness. I can barely stand to watch those intentionally awkward scenes in sitcoms and movies.
I have a preternatural ability to see what others are trying to say. This comes out in two ways. One, if someone is talking to me, and they make an error, my brain will autotranslate. So if they said brother and meant father, I will hear what they meant. Sometimes I don't notice this translation until they point out an error they made. And then I'll be able to recall specifically what they said. The other way it comes out is I can spot miscommunication very easily. If two people are having a "who's on first" moment, I'll see exactly where the confusion is, and what needs to be said to fix it. It's awesome and weird.
Both of the previous items cause me to have a natural urge to resolve any conflict going on, trying to act as mediator.
Like some here, I think I have mild number synethesia. Mental math sometimes has a visual component, with numbers splitting and merging. Additionally, numbers...um....look a certain way. So the number 15 looks really 3-ish and really 5-ish. It's also a very sturdy, compact number (because it fits into 60 so well.) The lower numbers also have an aesthetic, usually based on how divisible they are or how common a divisor they are. So, 2,3,4,12,60 are all pretty but 31 or 57 are ugly. Higher numbers blur a bit for me. This may be a heuristic for how easily my mind manipulates those numbers.
Also, and with the main population I feel like an oddity for this, I derive significant pleasure from completing math problems. I imagine many others here do too.