Hello, LessWrong community. I have a question, my dears, for you. I hope it will not annoy anyone as it is admittedly a self-indulgent question which perhaps does not fit very well within the landscape of LessWrong content; however, I have inwardly justified posting it anyway because a) I genuinely...
Hey, gang. There is no way for me to structure this request coherently. I am barbarously ignorant of the subject at hand, so please forgive any instances of clumsy wording you may encounter here or there. This is the only community I trust to give me sound, well-informed, and useful...
Hello, LessWrong community. I have a question, my dears, for you. I hope it will not annoy anyone as it is admittedly a self-indulgent question which perhaps does not fit very well within the landscape of LessWrong content; however, I have inwardly justified posting it anyway because a) I genuinely need advice, and b) I trust LW more than I trust the entire rest of the internet to give me clear, honest, good advice. I know LW is not a relationship advice column, but I am quite new to rationality concepts and need some help applying them to a relationship dilemma in my real life that I can't tell anyone about in... (read 1179 more words →)
The problem with your "resident of Boise" theory is that it costs an ungodly amount of money to move, all of which must be paid upfront. Moving out of state is even worse, because it often means transferring jobs. This is a huge barrier for a lot of people, and for many its utterly prohibitive.
Then there's the fact that homelessness generally feels like a weird transitional phase, and you bear it with as much grace as possible and hope you have kind friends.
My father is a very soft-hearted person, and ever since I was a child he has let people stay with him who are down on their luck for whatever reason.... (read 410 more words →)
Bureaucracy exists in the public sector because the government has certain duties to the public which must be fulfilled, and the process of fulfilling them is inherently complex, difficult, and expensive.
It is also quite labor-intensive. Many people are required to facilitate the government's administrative efforts. From court clerks to prison guards to the person who snaps your driver's license photo, public service requires a lot of grunt work, and the direct impact of their performance upon everyone's individual lives necessitates constant meta level analysis. This is further complicated by conflicting interests, disagreements over priorities, the prevalence of logistical errors, funding and informational deficiencies, social fads, internal ambivalence about the institutional mission, efforts... (read more)
I'm not sure this is true. I don't think people have children out of a conscious desire to "pass on their genes." I am a parent and have never experienced this, nor have I ever heard of anyone framing their desire to become a parent in this way.
This may be what Nature has hard-wired us to do, but I don't think "passing on one's genes" is necessarily the end-goal in that regard, either. I think the objective is to produce offspring, and then see to it that those offspring survive. In which case dying would be absurdly counterproductive.
I think, first of all, people are intrinsically motivated to have sex, which naturally results... (read more)
This is difficult to quantify, since there's sugar hiding in everything and I don't keep track. But just to give a general ballpark idea, I'd say my sugar intake, left unchecked, ranges from "relatively high" to "if you cut me, I would literally bleed chocolate syrup."
According to AncestryDNA, I have a variant form of one of the three genes associated with taste perception which makes me especially sensitive to sweet flavors as well as bitter. I can attest to the latter but not the former. For example, I think green juices made from kale taste like ass sweat... (read more)
Thanks. I was hoping to enter into this by a different door, but this seems to be the most realistic/least devastatingly risky option for someone in my position.
I don't think there is an individualistic component to shame at all. I think it's a purely social phenomenon. More specifically, I think shame is a feeling that arises from the understanding or perception that one has been assigned low social status by one's own peers or community.
I think in order to experience shame, one must internalize negative social feedback, such as ridicule, scorn, or rejection. I don't believe we experience shame privately. It hinges upon the disapproval of others.
As an example, sometimes people coming to the West as tourists from one of the Eastern "honor-shame" cultures will indulge in behaviors here that would be considered shameful back home, and they do... (read more)
Thanks for your response. As it happens, this bears some resemblance to my casino policy, except that obviously there's nothing long-term about that. :)
Thanks for the resources. I'll check them out. I really appreciate it.
I have some small money in a Coinbase account and it's tied up in MANA and SHIBA INU. I can't gauge whether or not this was a mistake at this point, as both are fluctuating by the second as expected, and it seems when one plummets, the other rises and vice versa. But it's not enough money to hurt anyway.
I've been considering Ether. How confident are you that it isn't already too late to invest in it? Or do you think it is, at this point, too late?
What is scalp trading?
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it greatly. Your assessment (that I'm not well-connected or well-resourced) is correct. I am also, as you can see, not well-informed.
It would appear that trading in altcoin is essentially like glorified, overly-hyped-up casino gambling. There are ways to get an edge on it, but I suspect that also comes down to who you know, not what. Alas.
Hey, gang.
There is no way for me to structure this request coherently. I am barbarously ignorant of the subject at hand, so please forgive any instances of clumsy wording you may encounter here or there. This is the only community I trust to give me sound, well-informed, and useful advice.
Here is my situation: I would like to invest in crypto, but my ignorance in this direction is magnificent. Indeed, it feels invincible to me. Furthermore, the very prospect of attempting to defeat this ironclad ignorance has presented itself to me as a somewhat insurmountable "ugh field" for the following reasons:
a) It seems like trading competently in crypto requires some degree of proficiency... (read 169 more words →)