FWIW I also interpreted your statement as normative.
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Sorry, I meant to say it worries me a bit if young LWers are leaving paid employment to work unpaid for their partners. I haven’t actually witnessed a bunch of people appear to do this—it was more of a concern after reading the post. However, it looks as if Swimmer963 is making sensible plans.
It worries me a bit that several young LWers appear to be leaving paid employment to do (presumably?) unpaid work for their partners. What happens if these relationships break down? Are they going to be able to find paid work after a long break from the job market?
I would recommend Fidelity’s FTSE All-Share tracker (it had the lowest fees I could find when I started saving some money in there a few months ago).
waves hello thanks for the masterlist and the follow :)
I just started a tumblr (coffeespoonsposts) - which tumblrs should I follow?
Ah, sorry, I must have missed that due to reading too quickly.
I’m female, but I had no idea until after I’d had sex with bisexual men that the HIV risk was much higher than from sleeping with straight men. I used condoms anyway, but I was pretty shocked to learn about it. I still date bi men*, but I’m much stricter about making sure they’ve had STI tests than I used to be.
*My main social group are the UK bi/poly community, so two out of three of the men I’ve dated in the last few years have been bi.
Regarding HIV, what about Truveda?
I have changed my mind about lots of things since my introduction to less wrong (I’m much less political for instance), but I can’t think of any specific posts right now. Mostly I’ve changed my mind through discussing things with rationalist friends.
Also, I’m much less social justicy since reading slatestarcodex and Yvain’s previous blog.
Edit: Not a less wrong post, but Yvain’s meditations on superweapons changed my mind about various social justice feminist thngs.
I have an anxiety disorder, and I managed to get through a very stressful few weeks (work deadline, family difficulties, a minor injury, a moth infestation and a difficult accountancy exam), without my anxiety causing too much trouble. A couple of weeks ago I felt paralysed with anxiety, and I forced myself to have a rest and to do some mindfulness exercises. I did the same the next day and I started to feel less anxious gradually. I completed the work deadlines and I’m pretty sure I passed the exam as well.
EDIT: This is particularly significant, since my anxiety has certainly improved a lot over the last couple of years. However, I was worried that it would become severe again in a stressful situation. I’m glad that it hasn’t!
do note that people are usually paid for the value they produce and that individuals’ capability to produce value differs GREATLY
That’s true, but I still care about people who don’t produce much value, and I don’t like to see them being impoverished and miserable.
I had thought that reactionaries were anti-enlightenment though?
From reading HPMOR and some of the sequences (I’m very slowly working my way through them) I get the impression that Eliezer is very pro-enlightenment. I can’t imagine that he’d often explicitly claim to be pro-enlightenment if he weren’t, rather than simply avoiding the whole issue.
I think it might be a good idea for admin to get involved now, either to explain what action they’ll take or to explain why they’re not taking any action. The reasons for admin to get involved are:
1)It makes karma a less effective way of signalling the quality of a user’s comments
2)IT seems to have happened to several people
3)It upsets people, and makes them less likely to post here
4)It might cause drama (someone has publicly named a karma abuser below)
Yes, there will be payback to the world, but not as much as if you spend the money on efficient charity (I would think).
Because having children is just so incredibly expensive!
It strikes me that very little has been said about the costs to the parents of homeschooling.
Even if homeschoolers only spend a few hours a week teaching their children (and that assumes the children are motivated enough to teach themselves the rest), they still have to make sure someone is in the house with the children all the time, which requires either career sacrifices (unless they can work from home), or probably more money than private school would cost (childminders are very expensive).
Also, I’m not convinced that even the average gifted child would be motivated enough to learn everything they need by themselves. I expect that the total time a homeschooler would end up spending would be substantially more than a few hours per week, which would again require major career sacrifices.
Finally, it can be very draining for a lot of parents to be around their children all the time. Often parents find having jobs outside the home to be a welcome break from childcare.
I’m less confident of that now, but it’s still a great deal better than nothing (and I think it’s probably better than psychoanalysis at teaching coping skills for this sort of anxiety).
I also think that the technique I suggested can improve the accuracy of your predictions, which is a good thing independently of whether it improves anxiety or not.
I don’t find that there’s much of a social cost to smoking e-cigarettes. Most non-smokers don’t mind them as they don’t smell, and where I live (the UK) you can smoke them inside in lots of places.