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Sabiola
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“Less equal” is a reference to “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” from Animal Farm.
Just happened to see this old comment. Sure enough, the cycling got skipped more and more often, until I just forgot about it completely. I really need to find something fun to do to get myself moving again.
It also made me think of the inner ring by C.S. Lewis, especially this part:
“If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments.
EDIT: fixed typo.
Rationality Quotes January—March 2017
I thought it was meant to be a parody, and I didn’t find it very funny.
Yes, but some young people would fuck themselves up for life, possibly under pressure from their families. That happens now too, of course, and at least when it’s legal they could get earlier and better help; but I still don’t see any politician voting for it.
I guess that would depend on how likely your dentist thinks they’re going to cause problems. Personal anecdata: I had to have a back molar extracted one time, and a wisdom tooth started growing right into the vacant spot, giving me a brand-new tooth. :-) I still have a wisdom tooth on the other side; I can feel the point under my gums, but it’s not causing any problems so far (I’m 61).
Rationality Quotes September–December 2016
I’m afraid the preservation techniques are still so bad that you can’t be revived correctly even with improved future techniques.
More like 1/100000, and then when they thaw you you’ll be brain damaged and have to live in an institution forever. They don’t really know how to do this yet. How far along are they now? Have they frozen and thawed a mouse yet, and did it behave the same as before? I won’t let them freeze me earlier than that, because there’s essentially no chance I’ll be even able to walk and talk, let alone be someone present me would recognize as ‘me’.
Rationality Quotes August 2016
Rationality Quotes July 2016
...a reflexive, aversive reaction to ruminating. I’m almost more scared of ruminating, and the places that leads, than I am scared of pain. I don’t know if this is a psychologically healthy stance...
I think it is. My own life is pretty good, actually, but I could easily talk myself into a depression if I didn’t try and avoid ruminating as much as possible. “Don’t believe everything you think”—I learned that here on LW, and that alone is easily worth all the time I’ve spent on this site.
Rationality Quotes June 2016
Rationality Quotes May 2016
This made me think of this cartoon: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174.
Right now, I’m grateful for coffee.
Are there any games which encourage a you/thou distinction?
I hope there are not, people would use the wrong cases and verb forms all the time.
Please go ahead en write it, I want to read it.