Whateley Academy is a superhero shared universe with strong world building, multiple quasi-rasionalist characters, and many characters who are irrational in ways that are sympathetic and believable rather than because they’re holding the idiot ball. It is also chock full of witty dialog and big on queer characters, in particular many of the characters (including most of the protagonists) are some mixture of trans in the normal sense, intersex, or undergoing changes to there sexual characteristics as a side effect of their origin. I’ve gotten the impression that it is pretty similar to both Worm and Tales of the MU but don’t know enough about those series to confirm this. -ETA also all the trigger warnings, seriously all of them.
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I see.
What does CEE refer to?
I was referring to factual controversy, not political. While it sounds like the most dubious parts are the ones you skipped/skimmed, a major facet of Grossman’s work in general is his ideas about the psychology of killing, and as the above link details these ideas are based on a mixture of pathetically bad evolutionary psychology, and dubious (read probably fraudulent) empirical evidence. Since, your review didn’t focus on this aspect I don’t want to harp on it too much, at the same time it has a lot of knock on effects e.g. your views on video games and violence are likely to be different if you believe humans are naturally violent than if you believe they need significant training to be psychologically capable of killing.
Most of the criticism don’t directly concern the claims you’re highlighting, but on combat is actually pretty controversial.
Most finance advice I’ve seen (and I’ve spent a good bit of time in the finance blogosphere) starts by saying that you should track what your expenses are for precisely this reason.
The Luminosity sequence has some stuff on this, though its been long enough since I read it that I don’t remember the details very well. Acceptance and commitment therapy has some really good stuff on dealing with anger/frustration (I recommend the book Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Life). Learning acceptance and commitment for just this problem is probably overkill, on the other hand its pretty useful for life in general.
I know that Val from CfAR at least used to run meditation retreats though they weren’t aimed specifically at rationalists.
I like Complice for having a daily to-do that allows you to track how much time you’ve spent on each of your items (if you’re using its pomodoro timer), and to see which goals you did (and didn’t) meet on past days. However, I know the founder through CfAR so I may be biased.
Similarly, I’ve had several non LW friends who have started reading SSC after semi-frequently being linked there by my FB.
I use Vienna.
Significant depends on your personal circumstances, but anything more than half a year’s income almost certainly qualifies. I’ve seen good arguments for keeping much than half a years income on hand, but they’re controversial and aimed at people following the early retirement community’s overall suite of advice, which allows them to make assumptions that don’t hold for large chunks of the population.
Having a home equity line of credit is the standard US equivalent.
Mr.Money Mustache on finance and positive psychology. Specialties are doing the math of everyday life, and understanding the concept of the hedonic treadmill.
Don’t keep significant savings in accounts that don’t bear interest for an extended amount of time.
80⁄20 tax law for your country. Unless your a tax lawyer you aren’t going to have the need or ability to learn it in detail, but simple changes can often save several thousand dollars a year. In particular tax deductible savings accounts and charitable giving deductions are your friends.
Thanks. -ETA I followed both the link and the links to several of Wikipedia’s sources, but no further. The stuff I saw all seems to support Rolf’s claims about S. L. A Marshall being unreliable and the primary source for most of the claims of the killing is hard side.
Can you please link what you’re quoting from.
You might be interested in the earlier retirement community, particularly the Mustachian branch. They spend a decent bit of time on the concept of the hedonic treadmill in general, with a particular focus on how it causes people to waste money.
Although Mustachianism is built on the idea of embracing hardship, it becomes so automatic that it is soon the only way you could imagine living. Because of this amazing tendency, it is often easier to live on 25% of a professional income (and save the other 75%) than it is to try to scrape by on 90% and save 10.
Rot13 Jngpuzra. The main villain is trying to force the world powers to unite to fight his fake alien invasion, and you aren’t supposed to find this out until the end.