I would have given a response for digit ratio if I’d known about the steps to take the measurement before opening the survey, or if it were at the top of the survey, or if I could answer on a separate form after submitting the main survey. I didn’t answer because I was afraid that if I took the time to do so, the survey form, or my https connection to it, or something else would time out, and I would lose all the answers I had entered.
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The way to become bisexual is to regularly extend your exposure to erotic stimuli just a little further than your comfort zone extends in that direction. I’ll use drawn pictorial porn as an example erotic stimulus, but adapt to whatever you prefer: start with Bridget. Everyone is gay for Bridget. Once you’re comfortable with Bridget, move on to futanari-on-female erotica, male-on-futanari, then futanari-on-male, paying attention to your comfort levels. You’ll run across some bizarre things while searching for this stuff; if any of it interests you, just go with it.
By now, you should be fairly comfortable with the plumbing involved, so it’s just the somatically male body you need to learn to find attractive. Find art featuring bishounen types, then pairing them with other male body types, and pay attention to what feels most comfortable.
It may take a while to go through this process, but I believe it’s entirely achievable for most people who don’t view heterosexuality as a terminal value.
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Meh. What’s the chances of some germanic guy sitting around looking at patents all day coming up with a theory that revolutionizes some field of science?
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
-- H. L. Mencken, describing halo bias before it was named
I remarked elsewhere that, if someone media-savvy could use this to show the USA’s voters that the terrorists hate our Science as well as our freedoms, we might get all manner of space telescopes and stem cell therapies funded.
I think I just read the explanation for the strange phenomena some people have reported; that of karma disappearing rapidly over a few hours of downvotes on older threads. It’s just thomblake catching up.
Traditional pundits are intimidated and frightened by Nate Silver’s quantitative analysis. They see their comfy job pandering to the beliefs-as-attire market, with no expectation of accuracy, disappearing if pundits who can actually predict things take over.
edit: This comment, further down the page, explains well.
I’m embarassed to bring this up again, because I seem to quote steven0461 too often—but, in something close to his words; “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains is likely more improbable than an error in one of your impossibility proofs.”
You’re suffering from the typical ear fallacy. Some people have much stiffer cartilage, or something; I don’t find it uncomfortable, but I’ve met people who’re caused actual pain by it.
My ambition is infinite but not limitless. I don’t think I can re-arrange the small natural numbers.
...in the weeks and months that followed, San Franciscans became accustomed to being accosted and asked a brief series of questions by a friendly young person carrying an archival quality notebook and wearing a clown suit.
Corollaries: The more of a dumbass you are, the less well you can recognize common features in iterated bad things. So dumbasses are, subjectively speaking, just unlucky.
Amazon isn’t a store, not really. Not in any sense that we can regularly think about stores. It’s a strange pulsing network of potential goods, global supply chains, and alien associative algorithms with the skin of a store stretched over it, so we don’t lose our minds.
Tim Maly, pondering the increasing and poorly understood impact of algorithms on the average person’s life.
Note to self: Cooperate on prisoner’s dilemma with anybody I’ve danced or sung alongside.
I, for one, am going to bend the next several pieces of suitable scrap metal I come across into a curved shape capable of holding together several pieces of paper in an unsolicited reciprocation designed to signal cooperation with agents who advance my values.
Those of us disqualified from donating blood should probably try to get into some form of exercise that involves a lot of blood loss; like skateboarding over sharp rocks, fencing with un-foiled blades, or taunting apex predators in their natural habitat. A new Ev-psych explanation for why men engage in this sort of activity more than women!
My opinion of India’s government just went up several notches. Controlled random trials on entire villages? We need to elect more mad scientists!
Ask A Rationalist—choosing a cryonics provider:
I’m sold on the concept. We live in a world beyond the reach of god; if I want to experience anything beyond my allotted threescore and ten, I need a friendly singularity before my metabolic processes cease; or information-theoretic preservation from that cessation onward.
But when one gets down to brass tacks, the situation becomes murkier. Alcor whole body suspension is nowhere near as cheap as numbers that get thrown around in discussions on cryonics—if you want to be prepared for senescence as well as accidents, a 20 year payoff on whole life insurance and Alcor dues runs near $200/month; painful but not impossible for me.
The other primary option, Cryonics Institute, is 1/5th the price; but the future availability—even at additional cost—of timely suspension is called into question by their own site.
Alcor shares case reports, but no numbers for average time between death and deep freeze, which seems to stymie any easy comparison on effectiveness. I have little experience reading balance sheets, but both companies seem reasonably stable. What’s a prospective immortal on a budget to do?
Donated 0.9766578425 bitcoins, a number I chose since that’s Chaitin’s Omega for the shortest FAI.
I’d prefer “Eliezer Yudkowsky can fold up the territory and put it in his pocket.”