Cryptocat is an OTR implementation that happens to run as a browser plugin and has developers trying to work out how to have cryptographically secure group conversations. The cross-compatibility should be high.
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I heard (though I’m not entirely sure how to cite or quantify, so salt as necessary) that the weather patterns that will be inspired by climate change will tend towards extremes: either drier deserts or more damaging monsoons/hurricanes/flooding rains, not “bringing more rain to places that don’t get rained on much today”.
Related TED talk: Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Leave
Thank you for finding those; I searched for the title of the article but was unable to find previous posts about it.
[LINK] “Scott and Scurvy”: a reminder of the messiness of scientific progress
I don’t know if there’s a consensus, but this sounds vaguely like the concept of “intentional communities”.
On luminosity
With extensive observation of myself, I finally understood that familial dynamics were reinforcing maladaptive thoughts in myself that I was actively trying to remove. Thinking very carefully about what my situation would look like from someone else’s perspective bolstered my suspicions that my situation was likely emotionally abusive. As such, I (with extensive assistance from my own social circles) have managed to remove myself from my childhood home.
While not necessarily useful in a carve-reality-at-the-joints sense (1), I have found the concepts of PTSD and C-PTSD to be useful, both in literature search and in understanding that many of my impairments stem from adaptation to the situation I was in (i.e. rather than from any inherent genetic/neural wiring (2) or personal failings). Furthermore, I seem to have been practicing a form of CBT on myself for years as a direct result of my luminosity practice, which has kept me far more sane and functioning than would be expected given my situation.
Incidentally: rationalist practice of believing that which is true, regardless of how comfortable you are with it (3), turns out to be very good practice for the processing and manipulation of traumatic memories. The fact that I already know I can stare into the void and not claw my eyes out makes it easier to withstand the kind of associations my own brain is generating.
While my life thus far is not full Winning as the community (4) would likely use the word, I am doing extremely well given my background and I have every reason to believe these mental habits will facilitate further recovery.
(1) But neither are most other psychiatric diagnoses.
(2) Thank the blind idiot god for adult neuroplasticity, I am in desperate need of it.
(3) I was going to talk about compartmentalization and dissociation here, but could not think of a coherent way to phrase the perceived similarity/difference.
(4) I have noted before that most of the reason that I consider myself a LW-type is because I was already practicing a form of luminosity on my own, and was extremely pleased to find that I was not alone.
This explanation is clear. Thank you.
What are the positive and negative effects of income inequality, not “redistributing” income, etc.?
Most of the answers I’ve received on this issue veer far through the line of color politics and come out the other side spray-painted with logos and other such blatant advertising that the viewpoint in question is the only reasonable one. I’d like to get a rather straighter answer.
There is a series of textbooks for grade/high school math called Art of Problem Solving that focus heavily on deriving one’s own solution to the problem given evidence and maybe a hint or two. Not useful for those of us who are already out of school but could be used to train young’uns.
To further muddy the waters, transablism exists: some people believe that their ideal bodies are ones that have specific disabilities, and are willing to undergo significant trauma to gain those disabilities.
Is this in the spirit of transhumanism? (I want to think so. It’s not much different from wanting to improve one’s judgement by removing certain less useful circuits, I think?) Is this something that we as a society should allow? (...I have no idea.)
See also Transsexuals and Otherkin.
Of course, including the example at all excludes asexuals. Do we have any of those here?
Hi.
Yes, I think there might be, as the overhead images of that level of detail are generally taken by corporations which are subcontracted to fly planes out and take pictures, and they usually retain copyright. This is why in the corner of Google Earth there’s often a (c) Terremark (or similar) remark in the corner and/or on the main map. You would have to contact those corporations in order to buy the rights.
Alternatively, find someone on LW who parachutes, and have them take a picture of a suitable area from several hundred feet up. (This remark is 70% serious)
As to the actual drawn-up map part, assuming OpenStreetMap has a good enough level of detail for one’s area, that might be easier to get rights for.
Oh, hey. You write fanfiction too, right? I think I recognize your name.
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I began reading and immediately felt reflexive protective compartmentalization setting in. By the third paragraph I could no longer remember if you were making a point, it fell out of conscious memory so quickly. I usually observe the bottom falling out of my attention because of boredom, not horror. This is interesting.
If I were to attempt to take such ideas seriously I need to set aside an empty weekend for meditating on it like I arranged a few years ago to properly grasp the concept of nonexistence after death. Unfortunately my life has become more interesting in the intervening years.
It is also possible that suchly blunted effect is a symptom of an easily treatable physical disorder such as anemia or thyroid dysfunction. A physical workup may be necessary.
You’re talking about most people; I am not most people. After some reading on Dunbar’s number I decided to train myself to think of all strangers as agents not unlike me who merely grew up in different circumstances. Unfortunately most people don’t do that. It helps that my empathy is abnormally strong to begin with.
I was not asking about empathy. I was asking about why it is pleasurable to watch the humiliation of someone you have literally zero connection to.
Even lower hanging fruit is finding out what your actual portion sizes are. The definition of a serving is often surprisingly small—a restaurant portion of pasta could easily be three or four servings, not one.
This is probably why it looks like you are starving yourself to death.
I fantasize about horrific situations to subject fictional characters to. This I recently recognized as being due to my long-term work on decompartmentalizing new information. Essentially I find rules of the fictional realm, put them together in ways not intended by the original author, and get the small rush of self-congratulations for “taking an idea to its logical conclusion.” This results in being “too realistic” for many fantasy settings. On the other hand, it is why rationalist fiction so pleases me—it reminds me of how I think!
Jitsi is also relevant to this question, and I will concur that network effects are very frustrating.