things that people don’t want to read
vampire romance novels
People do want to read vampire romance novels.
J_Taylor
Karma: 1,850
From the constant rumors of nonexistent Pokemon, I learned how to distrust the epistemological practices of my peers.
Every time you go the doctor, you put yourself at risk of iatrogenic complications. Following the rule:
Every time you have a medical problem (this is a vague term), see a medical professional.
Is not very pragmatic.
If you do not mind, could you tell us what your initial symptoms were and what condition was causing them?
I sometimes have feelings of separation from my fellow man. Philanthropic activity tends to alleviate this. Likewise, it tends to buffer my emotions from feelings of personal inadequacy. Of course, these correlations are not sufficient to establish causation.
Also, I do get warm, fuzzy feelings. However, I do not hold these positive feelings to be as important as the suppression of negative feelings.
“Remind me to buy you a copy of the Muggle novel Atlas Shrugged,” the sourceless voice said. “I’m starting to understand what sort of person can benefit from reading it.”
Although the Weasley twins are extremely willing to repay perceived debts, it would seem to me that this inclination is more likely, given their usual inclination towards public action, to be of positive utility in the long-run.
It seems pretty clear from chapter 61 that MOR!ArthurWeasley knows precious little about the muggle world.
When it comes to wizards who lack recent Muggle ancestry, Arthur may well be the most knowledgeable expert regarding these matters. Considering the racism of even well-meaning wizards, this likely gives Arthur a certain degree of clout in certain circles.
I donated to the Against Malaria Foundation, which is GiveWell’s top charity.
Here is a link for those who wish to do likewise:
After more work than I would honestly prefer to put into such an effort, I eventually found this post:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/goe/open_thread_february_1528_2013/8iuo
As a curiosity, this post cannot be found from my user-page, nor can it be found via Wei Dai’s app. Fascinating.
This was a delightful chapter. I very much look forward to the next one.
Idle curiosity / possibility of post being deleted:
At one point in LessWrong’s past (some time in the last year, I think), I seem to recall replying to a post regarding matters of a basilisk nature. I believe that the post I replied to was along these lines:
Given that the information has been leaked, what is the point of continuing to post discussions of this matter?
I believe my response was long the lines of:
I hate to use silly reflective humor, but given that the information has been leaked, what is the point of censoring discussions of this matter?
At this time, I am unable to find these posts. Am I being paranoid, or was perhaps this thread deleted?
If this evidence is of interest to you, I still have not bought any more packs since converting to electronic cigarettes. If you have not yet converted, I would highly recommend doing so. If you are interested, I will message you my apparatus and places to purchase it at.
Some fraction of the population is naturally poly, some naturally mono, some can go either way depending on circumstances.
seems to mean something other than
Some fraction of the population is poly, some mono, some can go either way depending on circumstances.
I think this is it.
http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Ramjet/01_en.htm
I endorse this as being my original intention.
I apologize if I misinterpreted your statement:
Some fraction of the population is naturally poly, some naturally mono, some can go either way depending on circumstances.
I was curious what was meant by this.
How does one best optimize personal opinions for purposes of status-acquisition?
When you say ‘naturally’, are you referring to genetics, prenatal environment, or something else?
You could legalize eating tiger.
Tiger parts have a variety of uses in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Making harvesting these parts from farmed tigers would be a somewhat efficacious solution.
This post is shameless bragging:
I donated two days of pay to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. As always, this is incredibly easy to do. If you would like to do so, here is a link:
https://givewell.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/donate-to-sci