All of juped's Comments + Replies

3DSimon
That whole testing sequence is one of the best examples in film of how to distinguish what's expected of you from what's actually a good idea. (Or in that specific case, what seems to be expected of you.)
juped20

It's analogous to not handing out your letterhead in the days before copiers.

-1wedrifid
When your letterhead is awesome! ;)
4Malo
Each employee has a timesheet (on Google Docs) where they report their hours along with a description of what they spent those hours on. This doesn't allow for fine grained analysis of how effective each worker is (or if they are embellishing slightly), but it's enough to ensure that any substantial miss reporting does not occur.
juped00

I am curious, how does it work out as an hourly-rate thing?

1Malo
Sorry, I don't understand the question. Could you elaborate?
juped110

Better than "rationalists".

juped00

Funny, indeed, but I had to fish your website out of the Google cache to read it!

4gwern
I think the problem is on your end; I can access it fine via Firefox or elinks, Pingdom has sent me no reports nor Cloudflare, downforeveryoneorjustme says it's up, and my Google Analytics are reporting a usual amount of traffic to my domain.
juped180

Atheism is an excellent excuse for skipping church.

6Document
Believing there's no gold under your yard is an excellent excuse for not digging it up.
2Xachariah
And adopting a never ending ideological battle with the majority of your community more than makes up for the effort saved. If you just wanted to be lazy, there's always agnosticism.
1dlthomas
Doesn't always work for me...
juped10

The formatting for this page is really broken for me. I use Opera 11.whatever the latest is.

0[anonymous]
Broken on my Opera too. Tab-size spaces between words and the lines of text spilling to the right, going underneath the sidebar and beyond.
juped00

About that first paragraph, I usually was going to buy something anyway, but I want to buy it after I've used the bathroom, because who would want to carry their drink or whatever into a public bathroom?

juped60

Contemplating death from old age does activate fleeing behavior, though (at least in me), which is another of those silly bugs in the human brain. If I found a way to fix it to activate cryonics-buying behavior instead, I would probably have found a way to afford life insurance by now.

6JGWeissman
Three suggestions: 1. When you notice that your fleeing behavior has been activated, ask "Am I fleeing a problem I can solve?", and if the answer is yes, think "This is silly, I should turn and face this solvable problem". 2. Focus more on the reward of living forever than the punishment of death from old age. 3. Contact Rudi Hoffman today.
-3DSimon
If you can predict what a smarter you would think, why not just think that thought now?
juped-20

The second story could never happen, because a real cryonic revival counselor would be trained to handle that question.

DSimon110

A real cryonic revival counselor, or just one merely made of atoms?

juped30

I can forgive that, since cats express fairly complicated emotions with their body language which are probably beyond the current capability of miniaturized brain scanners. It seems, and I didn't bother to translate any of the Japanese website or anything, like that thing just measures general electrical activity levels.