Comment author: rkdj 01 December 2014 09:25:26AM 4 points [-]

Do you or would you secretly invade your child's privacy for their own protection?

Comment author: rkdj 21 October 2014 09:15:19AM *  0 points [-]

What does it mean to optimize the world, assuming the Many Worlds theory is true?

Comment author: DanielLC 17 October 2014 05:33:44AM -1 points [-]

It's caused by guns. If you're considering gun control, most gun-related deaths are suicide, and you consider suicide to be just as bad as any other form of death, then the most important consideration is suicide.

Comment author: rkdj 18 October 2014 04:38:57PM 2 points [-]

Robbing people of effective means to die doesn't make suicidal people stop being suicidal. It just forces them to endure whatever unbearable and possibly untreatable pain they are in.

Comment author: rkdj 15 October 2014 01:25:43PM 2 points [-]

have you noticed people adopting the lesswrong terminology and inaccurately priding themselves on being "sane"?