That’s dangerous knowledge. It’s kept secret for a reason. Now that you’ve let the cat out of the bag, campfires have lost some of their magical power.
Also, my family had a recipe for sweet potato casserole that included toasted marshmallows on top. But it was a special thing you could only cook Christmas and Thanksgiving.
I am still swayed by the slippery-slope argument. How far is it from “you must not offend us“ to “you must believe as we do?”
I don’t trust geolocation.
Also, there’s an advantage in a new user seeing all the meetups, since it accurately tells them how active we are.
And what about people who travel a lot and might check out a meetup in another city if they were reminded about it?
″...separate grading/certification and teaching....”
John Stuart Mill advocates that in the last chapter of On Liberty. He wanted the state to be in charge of testing and certification, but get out of the teaching business altogether (except for providing funding for educating the poor). I like the idea.
if God exists then consciousness depends on having an immaterial soul.
I translate that into logical notation:
(God exists) → For all X (X is conscious → X has an immaterial soul)
I don’t concede this conditional. I can imagine a universe with a personal creator, where consciousness is a material property of certain types of complex systems, but souls don’t exist.
The leap is that the Church–Turing thesis applies to human (“sentient”) cognition. Many theists deny this.
What are you doing blogging about your WoW community? You’re on your honeymoon!
Make it easier to read on a small device. This can be accomplished by making the width of the main column defined as a “max-width” in CSS and setting the viewport meta tag in the HTML.
I’ve been explicitly working on being awesome for the last few years. A friend introduced me to The Sims and I played long enough to reach my character’s life goal, then realized that I should be working that hard on reaching my own goals.
Results:
A new and better job, about to move to a much cooler town.
A lot closer to my ideal weight and fitness level.
A little more comfortable with myself.
A lot happier.
Several goals temporarily abandoned (learning a language, picking up an instrument). These were difficult to do on my own and consumed time better spent learning other things.
Since joining LW, I’ve had the nebulous goal of knowing all of the material on the site well enough to teach a semester class on it.
But someone would have noticed if the resulting flames were less holy.
In other words, the “Special Committee” will result in slow evaporative cooling?
I’m not certain that that book made a good argument for that position. It was after all, fiction.
Is there a serious non-fiction treatment of the question?
Radio buttons might work best:
she / her / herself / hers / her
he / him / himself / his / his
it / it / itself / its / its
they / them / themselves / theirs / their
e / em / eirself / eirs / eir
Don’t use pronouns on me!
It’s a conceit of our current sensibilities that we even use the same word to refer to how we feel about those, our siblings, our pets, and ice cream.
Which is why I sometimes taboo that word and try and explain exactly how I feel about my S.O. in other, more concrete, terms.
I don’t actually want to discuss politics. I realize that I hate politics. But I love talking about public policy. But discussing (e.g.) tax policy or monetary policy seems to automatically shift the conversation into politics. And then the yelling begins.
And what happens when we have a regular weekly or monthly meetup in every English-speaking city of more than two million? I’ve noticed that the regular meetups (LW/NYC, LW/Bay Area, LW/London, et cetera) don’t bother to announce every meeting. New users have to know to look at the wiki page.
Maybe this proposed widget should include these regular meetups (with links to the relevant wiki page) for all events within the next three weeks.
Eliezer (I think) feels the same way about the necessity of souls as about the Judeo-Christian god. Interesting hypothesis, but too complex to have anything but a small prior. Then no supporting evidence shows up, despite millennia of looking, reducing the likelihood further.
Work at a desk facing your boss. It does wonders keeping you productive. My boss happens to make this possible by bringing his work into the lab for several hours a day.
what sorts of supergoals are people setting?
Here’s another proposal for dealing with meetups: some sort of prominent widget that will show (only upcoming) meetups in chronological order, with links:
Upcoming Meetups
Thu, April 21 — Cambridge, MA, US
Fri, April 22 — Pittsburgh, PA, US
Sat, April 23 — Austin, TX, US
Mon, April 25 — New York, NY, US
Tue, April 26 — New York, NY, US
Wed, April 27 — Berkeley, CA, US
Thu, April 28 — New York, NY, US
Thu, April 28 — Mountain View, CA, US
Sat, April 30 — Shanghai, CN
Sat, April 30 — Paris, FR
Sun, May 1 — London, UK
Sun, May 1 — Cambridge, MA, US
Wed, May 4 — Research Triangle, NC, US
Wed, May 4 — Berkeley, CA, US
Thu, May 5 — Mountain View, CA, US
Fri, May 6 — Melbourne, AU
Wed May 11 — Berkeley, CA, US
Thu, May 12 — Mountain View, CA, US
Sun, May 15 — Cambridge, MA, US