Students who go to my office hours are generally at slightly below average grades in their class. If someone said that encouraging students to go to office hours was arguing in favor of something associated with lower grades, how would you respond?
If someone proposed that encouraging students to go to office hours was leading to lower grades, I’d try to run a semester with little to no office hours notification/encouragement to see if it held up.
In this specific example, it’s not inconceivable that the lack of office hours would make students more determined to focus during class and seek out other avenues that may prove more useful. I doubt it, but it’s in the realm of reasonable possibility.
I felt like I was trying to help people get what they want, improving instrumental rationality. Long-terming frequently ends up in marriage, monogamous marriage even. More sex doesn’t mean more partners (except when changing from 0 to 1, which is an important transition), and I don’t understand why you think it does.
I personally think that being in a long-term relationship is a very good move for a human who wants to achieve higher levels of happiness. I have been in 4 over the last eight years, and will celebrate 3 years of the current one this Wednesday! :) I’m very glad about both of my longer relationships thus far (both 3 year long).
I most wanted to help Long-terming women and Long-terming men achieve their purposes, whom through the mild levels of autism, or high levels of influence of the PUA community, may have been mistakenly suffering about their prospects and endeavours.
I don’t think that qualifies as promoting promiscuity. (note: I also do not object to promoting promiscuity)
Yeah, good point. I’m feeling addicted to reading and replying to this post now, which obviously is decreasing the signal to noise ratio of the post itself and my and other’s early comments. For the sake of my future self, and my addictive self, I’ll refrain from any further commentaries. (Please if you, reading this, downvoted the one comment which I said eluded me, still explain why, I’m baffled).
I’ll catch up with my Masters now. This semester of experimenting writing on Lesswrong was great.
Thanks to everyone who read this :)
Fair enough, although the overall point still stands. He is arguing in favor of promiscuity, something associated with lower happiness.
Students who go to my office hours are generally at slightly below average grades in their class. If someone said that encouraging students to go to office hours was arguing in favor of something associated with lower grades, how would you respond?
If someone proposed that encouraging students to go to office hours was leading to lower grades, I’d try to run a semester with little to no office hours notification/encouragement to see if it held up.
In this specific example, it’s not inconceivable that the lack of office hours would make students more determined to focus during class and seek out other avenues that may prove more useful. I doubt it, but it’s in the realm of reasonable possibility.
I felt like I was trying to help people get what they want, improving instrumental rationality. Long-terming frequently ends up in marriage, monogamous marriage even. More sex doesn’t mean more partners (except when changing from 0 to 1, which is an important transition), and I don’t understand why you think it does.
I personally think that being in a long-term relationship is a very good move for a human who wants to achieve higher levels of happiness. I have been in 4 over the last eight years, and will celebrate 3 years of the current one this Wednesday! :) I’m very glad about both of my longer relationships thus far (both 3 year long).
I most wanted to help Long-terming women and Long-terming men achieve their purposes, whom through the mild levels of autism, or high levels of influence of the PUA community, may have been mistakenly suffering about their prospects and endeavours.
I don’t think that qualifies as promoting promiscuity. (note: I also do not object to promoting promiscuity)
Careful, this is a good way to get people addicted to superstimuli.
Yeah, good point. I’m feeling addicted to reading and replying to this post now, which obviously is decreasing the signal to noise ratio of the post itself and my and other’s early comments. For the sake of my future self, and my addictive self, I’ll refrain from any further commentaries. (Please if you, reading this, downvoted the one comment which I said eluded me, still explain why, I’m baffled).
I’ll catch up with my Masters now. This semester of experimenting writing on Lesswrong was great. Thanks to everyone who read this :)