We wish, Dmytry.
It may improve your working memory, which would help you with those problems, John Maxwell IV, but probably not.
What signal about the efficacy and seriousness of antideathist groups do you think it sends when, of all possible ways to make things happen in that direction, the public is aware of people who go outside and picket and write on facebook walls ?
Goodnight, Aaron Swartz.
"Please, please, please tell me! I must know"
Perhaps too dramatic for your taste, but it should get the job done.
Overly dramatic, sounds patronizingly sarcastic
I know what you mean. As someone who knows women who have been raped and abused, I am disgusted and horrified by this post. I almost can't believe LW is willing to tolerate such insensitivity.
Do not attempt to transform Less Wrong into r/atheism. Just do not even try.
I don't think this topic is a mindkiller. Atheism isn't a guarantor of good reasoning, especially as the number of atheists grow, and you end up with more people raised atheist who haven't necessarily had experience with actually changing their mind. The demographic expansion points to the weakening power of atheism to signal the correct contrarian circle.
Thanks for the feedback. I wondered whether I should post a link to the Pew study. I decided in favor of it because I assumed that news about changes in religious belief over time would be of interest to rationalists, but if others agree that articles of this sort do not belong here I'd be happy to remove it. Thanks again.
You use only the resources you have, including your judgement, including your metajudgement.
It's gone. What was it?
especially when they insist they aren't doing it after receiving feedback
You underestimate force of habit, prase.
The Hyperbolic Time Chamber only allows two people at a time, except for that one time the plot demanded three people be in there, and the non-canon filler scene where four people were in there.
Cool essay otherwise, gwern.
Someone seems to have downvoted all of my comments. And, surmising by what I said to him, it seems to have been private messaging.
(If there is some way to check this and) this is true, this is an abuse of the karma system. I do not have many comments, so it is not so much a big deal, but I liked my comments, except the one I retracted (note it is the only one which did not get any downvotes just now), and I don't like unfairness.
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