lemonfreshman

Karma: −4

lemonfreshman 14 Nov 2014 1:44 UTC
−1 points
on: The Argument from Crisis and Pessimism Bias
I’ve seen Moldbug post of graph of assaults/stabbings etc… in England from 1900 to 2000. It went up by a factor of 30. You also have to consider that modern tech allows for the consequences of violence to be ameliorated. It’s genuinely hard to compare today to the past because we don’t live there and we have to rely on others accounts of it.

lemonfreshman 30 Jun 2013 23:48 UTC
2 points
in reply to: pragmatist’s comment on: An attempt at a short no-prerequisite test for programming inclination
St. Rev on twitter believes that the test is likely a hoax due to the way to was formatted vs. other tests at the time. There was still likely some test that was aimed at disenfranchisement but given the lack of evidence that it was real I’d say he might be right about this particularly unbelievable one one being a fake.

lemonfreshman 31 May 2013 16:28 UTC
16 points
on: Optimizing for attractiveness
For the girls you’re probably interested in, i.e. intellectual curious, nerdy, nice girls, you don’t need to be super fit, just not overweight. Most of the attraction comes from conversation, in which you engage in a mutual storytelling process. Have an interesting hobby, show off your humor and creativity. That’s what worked for me.

lemonfreshman 2 Dec 2011 20:33 UTC
7 points
in reply to: Jayson_Virissimo’s comment on: Rationality Quotes December 2011
There are many people who want to die. There are few who are willing to commit suicide to do it.

lemonfreshman 24 Jun 2011 7:35 UTC
0 points
on: Mostly silly alternatives to the word ‘rationalist’
existential watchdog Bayesian Metaman Metamaximizer Super Rationalist Perfectioneer Supersatisficer intelligence guardian

lemonfreshman 11 Aug 2010 3:07 UTC
1 point
on: Book Recommendations
A superb neuroscience popularization is Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran. He is a different kind of neuroscientist that uses a “Sherlock Holmes” method of investigating brain disorders like phantom limbs with a simple yet inventive experiments that shed insight into the workings of the mind.