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Since the post never came back (much less with "citations galore"), here's a mirror.
Well that's embarrassing. Thanks for the info! Should be fixed now.
Everything looks fine now. Thanks once again!
Um. I upvoted CellBioGuy because I assumed 'Not just women' meant 'Not just women freak out when advancedatheist says stuff like that'. Was my interpretation wrong?
Huh. I interpreted it as "not just women can't get sexual experience until marriage in a healthy patriarchy," but now that you mention it, your interpretation seems correct.
I've noticed that women freak out when I say that we need to restore a healthy patriarchy where women can't get sexual experience until marriage.
Not just women.
Not just women.
My understanding is that in the patriarchies of the past there were a small number of prostitutes and bad girls which young men could use to gain some experience and confidence before settling down and marrying nice, virgin girls.
Thank you! The book is fantastic. Combined with The Sequences ebooks that are already floating around (Eliezer Yudkowsky Blog Posts, 2006-2010: An Unofficial Compendium, Rationality: From AI to Zombies, and The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate) it is now possible for someone to get most of the insights of the rationalist community distilled into extremely efficient book formats.
Do let me know if anything's massively broken.
A large number of posts have extraneous > characters. The affected posts appear to be either SSC posts in which the > character appears at the start of a blockquote and LiveJournal posts in which the > character appears after and in between paragraphs. Examples of the former include "Meditations on Moloch," "Misperceptions on Moloch," and "Book Review: Red Plenty," while examples of the latter include "The Meditation on Creepiness", "The Meditation on Superweapons," and "The Meditation on the War on Applause Lights."
Also, the title of "We Wrestle Not With Flesh And Blood, But Against Powers And Principalitiebs" should be "We Wrestle Not With Flesh And Blood, But Against Powers And Principalities". I normally wouldn't report a typo, but this one appears to have been introduced by the ebook process; the mistake is not in the original article, nor is it on the list of titles RobbBB provided.
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Open thread, Sep. 28 - Oct. 4, 2015
There are sometimes controversial discussions here, and I wonder how these conversations play out at meetups. Do you ever get an anarchist, a communist and a neoreactionary turning up to the same meeting? If so, does it cause problems? Or, indeed, do discussions about dust specks/torture or other controversial but apolitical topics ever get heated?
LW seems far more cool-headed than the rest of the world, and I am wondering to what extent it might be partially due to being online.
Personally, I have only gone to a few meetups, but I think I have managed to offend people :(
Do you ever get an anarchist, a communist and a neoreactionary turning up to the same meeting?
So an anarchist, a communist, and a neoreactionary walk into a LessWrong meetup...
In response to
Open thread 7th september - 13th september
Information diet?
I did a quick search on LW but didn't find any important article about information diet. Did I miss something?
Questions worth considering:
- Should we eliminate all news sources like some advocate?
- What about the news that are relevant, e.g. changes in the tax code that you need to know about?
So I'm aiming for the soft spot of eliminating all the unnecessary news while still getting those pieces that are relevant for me.
Any ideas?
Should we eliminate all news sources like some advocate?
Yes.
What about the news that are relevant, e.g. changes in the tax code that you need to know about?
If you try to read the news, you will see far more proposed changes tax changes than actual changes, and far more useless political debate than practical ramifications. Much more efficient to just google "tax changes [state] [year]" once a year or ask an accountant you know.
Sorry, not sure what this means. Actually if you are asking for my numbers on my survey...
- make the world better - 6 I am not sure that being here is actually doing that. Nor am I sure how to prove that.
- fun - 3 I am not occupying time as other people are, "in between things" and I have not been a forum-contributor very much before LessWrong.
- friends - 4 I am beginning to make friends, but thats not as a function of the forum, more a function of me reaching out and chatting to people in PM's. I also run my local meetup (with friends) and see those people visit and post sometimes. So I don't "need" this place for friends. I feel like friends are a thing that happens over time if you stick around long enough. But it was never why I came here
- learn rationality - 7 This is why I came here. I played wikipedia game the first time I got here. Had so many tabs. Nothing made sense. It was great! I was first directed in this direction to an overcoming bias article more than 6 or 7 years ago, but as many more active members will know; I have not been "around" that long. I had a drips-and-drabs interaction to things, I have run a meetup in Sydney for 1.5 years so far (with friends). Only recently re-reading "the craft and the community" sequence. Which has prompted me to be more active and "define my own craft" so to speak.
- new ideas - 10 As a place for pointing out new ideas; this place should tend to have a magnetic gravity of them. Previously noted (by everyone) was bitcoin, and I was not in a position to notice it at the time. I feel now I am better in a position to notice new ideas, and opportunities should they arise. They don't happen every day, or every week, but even every few months a great idea might come along. I am here for that.
- advertise ideas - 0 I am not selling anything of my own. I have not written a book or created a soylent alternative etc. But I asked this in recognition that maybe the top posters were pushing an agenda. (with the exception that I want to encourage people to go to more in-person meetups. I firmly believe that if you put great and brilliant people from various walks of life together; great things happen)
- create craft - 10 I am not quite sure how, but I am trying to get my brain into writings (both as a verb and a noun). Slow progress. I feel like I have something to offer, if only I could get it into sentence structure.
- other - 10 meetups. in-person meetups. That is something I care about. Definitely.
(I hope this is what you were asking for)
K2pdfopt is God's gift to Kindle readers.
It seems to have a lot of settings, do you simply use the standard ones?
Yes, except that I change the "Device" setting to "Kindle Paperwhite" instead of "Kindle 1-5", and I usually convert the first 5 pages or so to make sure I have the borders right before I convert the whole document. The idea of cropping the margins is to set them such that page numbers and chapter headers are cut while retaining the text. You shouldn't need to touch the left and right margins most of the time, only the top and bottom ones. Use binary search.
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Posted a short story (1.3k words) to my Tumblr. Brushes against existential terror, so I'm going to call it 'horror,' and I made it for Halloween, but not all that spooky.
The beginning is too slow (I would not have read past the first paragraph if I had come across this story randomly on the internet; consider starting at the second paragraph), but the idea was interesting.