I think you’re taking this roleplaying thing too far.
lucidfox
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Gender Identity and Rationality
Social Presuppositions
Medieval Ballistics and Experiment
Things women and men tend to do in unmixed groups, respectively.
[Citation needed]!
I’m definitely an asker, and this—as I see now in retrospect thanks to this post—caused me a lot of grief with a friend with whom I was otherwise closely mentally aligned. She insisted on “reading” people and playing “guess my intent”, often accusing me of things that I never even thought of, and complaining that I was difficult to read. When I asked her why she couldn’t just ask me about my thoughts instead of trying to infer them, she said it was not culturally common in her country (Holland). I have no way of verifying that last assertion, though.
I’m actually staggered by the amount of so-called “dating advice” on LW in the first place.
I’m not sure what the forum achieves that the Discussion section doesn’t.
I’m also not sure why Less Wrong is lumped with SIAI here. The site may be supported by the SIAI, but in general, Less Wrong != SIAI, and the site attracts people skeptical or outright opposed to its ideas, as long as they are interested in non-singularity/AI related subjects. (Like me, for instance.)
I always questioned the existence of Grandfather Frost (the Russian equivalent of Santa). It didn’t make sense to me that someone could break into so many tightly locked apartments all in a single day, and leave no traces of it.
To that end, I tried to stay awake on New Year nights and see for myself how he does it. This required my parents to jump through hoops, like carrying me to a different room “for my own good”, to preserve the illusion. The turning point was when I peeked into my parents’ closet and saw gifts that Grandfather Frost was supposed to give me. I still wish they just told me the truth from the get go, and I’m annoyed that they’re bent on doing the same thing with my brother, who lacks my capacity for critical thinking.
Strangely, I stopped believing in God long before that, and before I knew it was called atheism.
LW systemic bias: US centrism
This is actually insightful, given that the most frequently proposed way for Omega to make predictions is to simulate the decision-maker—in which case you run into a Sleeping Beauty problem in which you are the real or simulated decision-maker.
I like this phrasing. It’s less ambiguous.
I’m objecting to hasty generalizations and hasty conflation of unrelated concepts.
War is probably gendered—I suspect it stems from physical disparities that have existed since the hunter-gatherer times. But how on Earth does asking correspond to war, as opposed to diplomacy?
or that women as a group have trouble understanding that money can be exchanged for goods and services
Replace “women” with “men” or “humans”, and the statement remains valid. So why emphasize women?
Hype Aversion/Backlash as an Immune Response?
It means taking averages over such an extremely diverse sample that the results end up having no real meaning—like literal average temperature per hospital, which includes sampling over corpses in the morgue and severe fever sufferers. So if the average temperature hospital 1 turns out to be 0.1 degrees higher than in hospital 2, it tells us nothing about the relative distribution of patient traits in each hospital.
and the love of a man for a woman, and the love of a woman for a man
Eliezer, as much as I agree with 95% of what you say, the devil lies in the details. In this case, a heteronormative bias. (Lesbian here.)
How to solve the national debt deadlock
In GetDefaultCountry()?
The point of that story is that everyone wanted to point out the flaw in the Emperor’s “wardrobe”, but everyone was too afraid to do it first.
An effect we see in real life fairly often: a chilling effect, an inconvenient truth that’s not talked about by implicit consensus, until someone decides to break the ice, at which point the acknowledgement of the problem cascades—which opens a way to its resolution.
I’ve seen it happen in open source communities, for example. I pointed out organizational flaws in project X, at which point people commented that they are glad someone finally decided to speak out.
If people knew about hell, why would anyone be evil?
For the same reason, I suspect, that people can be evil in the real world while genuinely believing in divine punishment. For example, they may think that surely, their actions must be justified and therefore good.
I have a suspicion you’re just trying to rationalize your existing mode of behavior.