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It appears I saved myself and my daughter, but everybody else died. Reading the reviews by NG, it sounds like this is the best possible outcome in the game?
Is the point to get us to think about our priorities?
In his author's notes, Eliezer said that MoR was the 5th or 6th most reviewed HP fanfic (or something like that). How does he know? Is there a list of top-reviewed fanfics somewhere?
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Should LW have a public censorship policy?
Of course, if you put something like that in the FAQ or about page, right there for eager new members to read, a lot of them are bound to go looking for it. Forbidden knowledge is tantalizing.
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How To Lose 100 Karma In 6 Hours -- What Just Happened
This is an excellent cautionary tale about being careful what you precommit to.
Participate in National Novel Writing Month. The idea is to write a 50,000 word work of fiction in 30 days, without fretting over quality too much. If you do this, you will learn a lot. It's unavoidable.
I've done Nanowrimo on several occasions, beaten the goal twice. One can learn a lot that way, but for the most part I've only learnt "if I have to churn out 1,700 words a day, I write crap".
I suspect the major benefit of finishing NaNoWriMo is realizing that writing a novel is actually possible, for you. That it's not some impossibly huge and daunting project that you could never really pull off--you can do it in a month, even.
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Where are other places to meet rationality-minded people?
The Straight Dope forums are good, and sometimes a better place than LW for settling fact-based questions.
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Psychopathy and the Wason Selection Task
The original paper is available ungated here. (Found on the author's website.)
How long until the next chapter is posted anyway?
Personally, I found it very useful when Eliezer posted when we could expect the next update in his author's notes. The RSS feed is cool but doesn't seem to update right away, so I still find myself checking ff.net compulsively so I can read the new chapter the moment is goes up.
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Voting is not rational (usually.)
This has nothing to do with refining the art of human rationality, worse it's a political issue, which are well known to be hard to discuss rationally. Just because you've used the word "rational" in the title, doesn't mean that this post belongs on this site. If you had discussed the biases or logical fallacies that lead to people irrationally voting your post would have been worthwhile.
Sorry for being so scathing, maybe non-rationality related posts should be allowed in the discussion sectioned (personally I believe that they should not), I guess I'm particularly irked because political discussions tend to go downhill so fast.
In case I'm wrong and the community does want this discussion, I shall post a link to a rather nice analysis of when to vote: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/is-the-british-voting-system-fair/
Is the question of whether to vote really a "political issue" in the same Blues vs Greens way that, say, abortion or gun control is?
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Same here, but I suspect there's a better outcome where you don't go up to the roof and witness the suicide, and therefore get to spend one extra day in the lab.
I doubt there are many players who deliberately skip work.
Hmmm... On the day the suicide happens, I'm pretty sure the door to the lab is locked.