bungula

• bungula 3 Aug 2012 7:28 UTC

  29 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2012

  “I drive an Infiniti. That’s really evil. There are people who just starve to death – that’s all they ever did. There’s people who are like, born and they go ‘Uh, I’m hungry’ then they just die, and that’s all they ever got to do. Meanwhile I’m driving in my car having a great time, and I sleep like a baby.

  It’s totally my fault, ’cause I could trade my Infiniti for a [less luxurious] car… and I’d get back like $20,000. And I could save hundreds of people from dying of starvation with that money. And everyday I don’t do it. Everyday I make them die with my car.”

  Louis C.K.

• bungula 4 May 2012 14:43 UTC

  30 points

  in reply to: Mark_Eichenlaub’s comment on: Why do peo­ple ____?

  It’s called Intrusive Thoughts, and apparently most people have these:

  London psychologist Stanley Rachman presented a questionnaire to healthy college students and found that virtually all said they had these thoughts from time to time, including thoughts of sexual violence, sexual punishment, “unnatural” sex acts, painful sexual practices, blasphemous or obscene images, thoughts of harming elderly people or someone close to them, violence against animals or towards children, and impulsive or abusive outbursts or utterances.[6] Such bad thoughts are universal among humans, and have “almost certainly always been a part of the human condition”.[7]

• bungula 10 Apr 2012 17:13 UTC

  24 points

  on: At­ten­tion con­trol is crit­i­cal for chang­ing/​in­creas­ing/​al­ter­ing motivation

  A great example of practical advice backed by deep theories, and something that I can apply immediately to my daily life. Great job!

  I agree with Manfred, this should be on the main page.

• bungula 1 Mar 2012 13:30 UTC

  16 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes March 2012

  It’s the Face of Boe. I’m absolutely certain about this, absolutely positive. Of course I’ll probably turn out to be incorrect

  Sam Hughes, talking about the first season finale of Doctor Who, differentiating between the subjective feeling of certainty and the actual probability estimate.

• bungula 24 Feb 2012 11:54 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: Dmytry’s comment on: Get Curious

  Can you give specific examples of articles that are biased? Your comment and it’s parent made me curious about wikipedia’s quality :)

• bungula 29 Jan 2012 20:25 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: beoShaffer’s comment on: Help! Name sug­ges­tions needed for Ra­tion­al­ity-Inst!

  Upvoted for “Less Wrong”.

  It’s a perfectly good name for a website, and it’s a perfectly good name for an institute.

• bungula 2 Dec 2011 12:17 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2011

  I see it as taking the Outside View on impossibility. Of course, in real life it usually takes more than a few minutes, but in the Whoniverse it is not unreasonable. Also, asking “How impossible?” seems to me like a good question in some cases.

• bungula 30 Nov 2011 16:22 UTC

  9 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2011

  The Doctor: The security protocols are still online and there’s no way to override them. It’s impossible.

  River: How impossible?

  The Doctor: A few minutes.

  -Doctor Who, Season 5, Episode 5

• bungula 30 Nov 2011 16:11 UTC

  24 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2011

  “I just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wildly inaccurate data which traced back to … Wikipedia. To encourage people to be on their toes, I’m not going to say what book or author.”

  -Randall Munroe, xkcd

• bungula 29 Nov 2011 15:41 UTC

  5 points

  on: LW Philoso­phers ver­sus Analytics

  Upvoted for making a testable hypotheses, and proposing to test it.

• bungula 28 May 2009 21:51 UTC

  0 points

  on: Do Fan­doms Need Awful­ness?

  The Beatles.