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Has anybody else wished that the value of the symbol, pi, was doubled? It becomes far more intuitive this way--this may even affect uptake of trigonometry in school. This rates up with declaring the electron's charge as negative rather than positive.
Congratulations.
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I hardly needed a sad person's false praise. Not being in pitiful emotional state, that has been described more lucidly that I could by others, is all the reward I need.
You asked for advice, I gave some. If you're a jerk to others in a similar situation you may not have much to care about afterwards.
I would like to explain that, intellectually, I understand that I have severe akrasia and likely clinical depression. However, it primarily manifests itself in the form of the phrase, "I don't care," and it is a recursive lack of caring, such that I do not care that I do not care; at least, that's how it feels. I find it very difficult to acquire motivation under such conditions.
How does one start to care? I've thought about it a great deal, and never came up with an answer outside of, "you just do."
I'm surprised no one has suggested it, but if you think that you have clinical depression I would strongly suggest seeking help. I have been depressed, I sought help and life moves on.
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Yeah, when something is in the permanent public record, everybody notices...
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Well at least this was to a different person. Changing default behaviors is incredibly difficult. Nicely done though :)
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I mentioned biology and economics, philosophy and psychology. I could go farther if desired.
However, really, since academia promotes reading old books, I'm happy to place the probablistic burden of the claim that academia is mad on it.
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Biology is the hot science right now. Knowledge about evolution was going to be very superficial until genetics came along. Now that tools are available, we are learning all sorts of things at an amazing clip.
Typo - you want "vale of tears", not "veil".
(I'm now on record with several comments like this one. Please let me know if they annoy. It's a quirk of mine that egregious misspellings bias me toward thinking less of the writer and the writing, but it seems to be a widely shared one.)
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Tip: You could pm the people about the error. No need for a permanent public record for trivial mistakes.
Why was this voted up to +4? Y'all are way too scared of being labeled cultish if you're voting this stuff up.
I really wish there was some way to teach arrogance. It seems to be such a large factor in whether people actually make progress as rationalists or not.
One symptom from the linked definition of groupthink:
Exercising direct pressure on others
Seriously though man, you're the one that has the overwhelming karma lead around here. Seems a little petty to police 4 dissenting votes.
Downvoted for wasting my time with many paragraphs of empty status signals, making an unreasonable request for censorship, and demanding work (software) that you don't have the right to ask for.
making an unreasonable request for censorship
This was done in the past and I think it was a great request.
demanding work (software) that you don't have the right to ask for.
It was a suggestion that I think people here would enjoy doing. I always have fun when I'm coding something experimental (of course these things are always fun until they're not).
Downvoted for wasting my time with many paragraphs of empty status signals
Interesting charge. Don't worry though, I caught your hostile signals.
Voted you up for some of your points and suggestions, but I gotta say, if you think the OP suggested
[t]hat... no one should be able to charge groupthink
then you didn't read what it actually said.
Fair point. It would have been more precise to say raise the difficulty in charging etc.
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I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution as a condition of employment, so at the very least I have to signal caring about it. I doubt beriukay is in the same position, though.
Do you really take that sort of thing seriously? Far out if you do, but I have trouble with the concept of an 'oath'.