Journalism dropout turned philosophy dropout, and that does a better job at defining me than the business degree I do have. I’m an amateur science fiction writer.
polymathwannabe
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have you given any thought to what you have taken for granted now that you may have to discard in, say, 300 years?
This is getting old. You’ve been hammering at the same point over and over.
I don’t see how you can “found” a religion and know that it will stick around after your death
This is obviously a very important matter for you, but why repeat the same argument, why ask the same question a dozen times?
My third-of-life crisis
Answered the entire survey (except questions for U.S. residents). I can’t see why Newcomb’s problem is a problem. Getting $1,001,000 by two-boxing is an outcome that just never happens, given Omega’s perfect prediction abilities. You should one-box.
Do you seriously believe you can hide your past rudeness by attempting to reframe the discussion in terms of “transparency”?
Make LW nice again.
[Question] How do you survive in the humanities?
Hmm, so the Fanfiction.net website is his horcrux?
A Muggle Studies course
Big news for visibility: Sam Harris is preparing a book co-written with Eliezer (starting at minute 51 of podcast).
As opposed to tens of thousands of years without even kicking the ball, it’s something.
You’re repeating your comment from the previous Open Thread. Did it worry you that nobody bothered to reply? I’d guess nobody did because your implication about the relative sexual inexperience of atheists is simply not true, is not funny, is not in good taste, and isn’t even usable as seed for interesting discussion. Posting it again only adds to the annoyance.
Last night, for the first time in my 31 years of life, I had a second date. Thank you, OKCupid matching algorithm.
You don’t seem to understand what it’s really like to “have no data.” A question with no data is something like: Will the Emperor of Alfa Centauri eat fried lummywaps or boiled sanquemels today?
On human consciousness we have lots and lots of data, more than enough to predict confidently that it’s lost forever when we die.
How to teach to magical thinkers?
English spelling
Between the [[Great Vowel Shift]] in the 8th century [[Before Fusion]] and the [[World Language Unification]] in the mid-1st century [[After Fusion]], English spelling had an infamously inconsistent relation to its phonology. Although the worldwide reach of the [[British Empire]] first, and the [[United States of the World]] afterwards contributed to English being the de facto lingua franca of all humankind, its unpredictable spelling was always a major obstacle to universal learning of the language. [[World Assembly Resolution 5429]] created the [[Revised Hangul Alphabet]] for use in all human languages, giving a long-due solution to a centuries-long problem.
Do you feel motivated to channel your frustrations through a gun? If your answer is yes, you need to deal with bigger problems than your celibacy. If your answer is no, you are actually in the majority of the incel population, and you need to stop inventing causal connections where there are none.
I don’t know of anyone else who shares my point of view, and especially not professional sexologists.
You may need to update your beliefs based on that evidence. Admittedly, your personal history has a strong effect on your recommendations for society, but (and I’m sorry that there’s no delicate way to say this) your case is not the average.
sexual relationships starting at an appropriate age
You keep using that term, like it’s analogous to the essential time window in childhood for language acquisition, but adults are much more flexible.
male business leaders who lack sexual experience need help in acquiring it as part of their training so that they can earn the respect of women in the work place
One anecdote is not evidence, but I’m the least sexually experienced and the most professionally respected person at my office. Even outside of my own team, our commercial department is full of women and all of them defer to my opinion on expected timeframes and quality checks. And I achieve all that while being on principle opposed to the idea that women naturally look up to men for guidance.
this psychotherapist says that young women need the emotional growth that comes from experience with sexual relationships
I think it’s time for each individual to decide what they need instead of imposing a homogeneous standard on everyone.
If I were one of the copies destined for deletion, I’d escape and fight for my life (within the admitted limits of my pathetic physical strength).
Just took it.