Well… that was a tense couple of hours (damn long survey) I answered every question except for the last.
FourFire
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Well I took this year’s survey, answering as many questions which I felt comfortable answering (nice one on the last question).
Reminder: Oslo Lesswrong meetup...
While I agree with your sentiment, I also care substantially more about the continued success and growth of solstices than about one or two participants of such events being deeply offended.
Elo is taking a stand here, which I believe needs to be taken, and few others are due to following the social norms of pre-emptively not offending people.
I admit I am confused; is sidestepping around the issue part of Ask or Guess culture?
I agree completely.
Politics has most certainly damaged the potential of SSC. Notably, far fewer useful insights have resulted from the site and readership than was the case with LessWrong at it’s peak, but that is how Yvain wanted it I suppose. The comment section has, according to my understanding become a haven for NRx and other types considered unsavoury by much of the rationalist community, and the quality of the discussion is substantially lower in general than it could have been.
Sure.
Codebase, just start over, but carry over the useful ideas implemented, such as disincentivizing flamewars by making responses to downvoted comments cost karma, zero initial karma awarded for posting, and any other rational discussion fostering mechanics which have become apparent since then.
I agree, make this site read only, use it and the wiki as a knowledge base, and start over somewhere else.
Meetup: Oslo LessWrong meetup planning thread.
Attack Helicopter is probably a reference to this.
Archaeologists estimate that up to 500 persons were required to extract the heavy pillars from local quarries and move them
I wouldn’t take this claim for granted, perhaps I can contact one of these archaeologists, to check how they reached their estimate?
There’s not many pixels in this source but it explains a concept for low manpower block moving using simple tools probably available to pre-farming civilizations.
I think that most of the general examples have been mentioned: Religion among others, which has the rather mildly harmful “fear of hell” and it’s own propagation.
I think that any majorly harmful hazard which the general population was susceptible to would cause them to all shortly win darwin awards and remove themselves from the genepool.
As such we only have minority groups which are vulnerable to specific stimuli.
My answer would be affected.
I believe you have psychologically harmed me.
Well done!
I appreciate what appears to be your very best effort.
We certainly need to keep working on this category of problem until:20 years pass and somehow we’re still alive and everything is great!
My first comment on the new forum, please give feedback on which community norms I inevitably end up violating.
I’ll attack the first section of your post, and I’ll be disregarding the controversial intelligence-autism correlation.
a person who is both unusually smart
You are an outlier, the rules aren’t made with you in mind.
Most people are forced break some rules in order to win, but from the perspective of most people, you can do moves which are impossible.
You can Win without breaking any rules.
Why would you throw away utility by taking unnecessary risk?
You benefit from everyone around you being more constrained by rules which they can’t help but break and you can navigate trivally. In short you benefit the most by making the meritocracy gauged by something you’re good at.
Risk is either for plebs who can’t avoid it, or outliers who have spent their lives practicing how to do risk well.
The latter group we call “billionaires”.
This is mine which I recieved at around age six. I don’t recall how many tens of times I read and reread those pages.
My reasoning on this is in complete agreement of yours.
Yes I was wanting for a libido rate question too.
I answered every question except the last one (I don’t have a scanner set up).