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• tutNov 19, 2015, 7:39 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: WhyAsk’s comment on: Open thread, Nov. 09 - Nov. 15, 2015

  I don’t think that he wanted to be castrated for the sake of other people, but for his own sake. Maybe the “urges” are distracting and useless. I sympathize, but castration has too big side effects for me to use it.

• tutNov 19, 2015, 7:29 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: hg00’s comment on: Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015

  I would like to combine your two suggestions like so: Posts in discussion still earn 1 karma per vote. But as soon as a post gets at least five or so points it transfers to promoted. And then you get 10 karma per vote the post receives after getting promoted.

  Posts in promoted are visible to people reading discussion, but readers can choose to see only promoted posts.

  That way you have a smaller downside risk (if your post is received poorly you only lose one karma per downvote), but you can still get more karma if you write a substantial post that people like.

• tutNov 19, 2015, 7:24 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: Viliam’s comment on: Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015

  … Here is how …

  Is this similar to r/​rationalistdiaspora?

• tutNov 19, 2015, 4:59 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Novem­ber 2015

  Is acupuncture on the list? Meditation? I see chakras, but you can have all the useful parts of meditation without chakras.

• tutNov 15, 2015, 2:31 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: Open thread, Nov. 09 - Nov. 15, 2015

  Systematic reviews don’t exist for: … borderline personality disorder …

  I thought that got Dialectic Behavior Therapy.

  Also, the shyness treatment article has been withdrawn. They intended to make one but didn’t find any good sources.

• tutNov 9, 2015, 9:08 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: Open thread, Nov. 09 - Nov. 15, 2015

  It tastes very good. It is a little bit runny and turns brown after a while. Lots of people make their own jam this way. Except that they use a large pot rather than a frying pan. If you have berries I recommend that you try it. However, it is more expensive than the factory jam.

• tutOct 26, 2015, 9:13 AM

  8 points

  in reply to: D_Alex’s comment on: Crazy Global Warm­ing Solu­tion Ideas

  “Powerwall” is just a big battery. It might help compensate for the irregularities of solar and wind power. But it only makes sense to use batteries for that after we have moved to much more renewables. It is much more efficient to store the power in the water magazines of existing hydro plants.

• tutOct 16, 2015, 4:50 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: zslastman’s comment on: Open thread, Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 2015

  I believe that there is an editor called lyx that lets you do this.

• tutOct 9, 2015, 7:26 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: polymathwannabe’s comment on: In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Ques­tions Thread

  The thing about filing is not that your nails are too long. For some people the trigger for biting their nails is that they notice a piece of a nail sticking up far enough to be bitten. If they file the nails as short as they bite them, but completely even, then that trigger never happens, so they stop biting their nails.

  Pretty much substitute filing for biting, because that looks nicer and is easier to modulate into something that does make sense.

• tutOct 8, 2015, 3:53 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: polymathwannabe’s comment on: In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Ques­tions Thread

  Does it help if you just cut and file your nails really short?

  Have you tried using nail polish instead of hot sauce?

• tutOct 2, 2015, 11:10 AM

  5 points

  in reply to: VoiceOfRa’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Septem­ber 2015

  No, but it does mean that if you want to argue that humans exist you must provide strong positive evidence, perhaps telling us an address where we can meet a real live human ;)

• tutOct 2, 2015, 9:41 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: Open thread, Sep. 21 - Sep. 27, 2015

  That’s why they are separated by the word “but”. If I were to say “it rained yesterday, but today it looks like it will be sunny”, would you object that “sun today doesn’t follow from rain yesterday”?

• tutSep 16, 2015, 3:23 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Septem­ber 2015

  Unless the other fellow isn’t an idiot, so that “large, important, easy-to-find stupidity in the other fellow’s professional territory” is correspondingly more likely to be imaginary.

• tutSep 16, 2015, 10:35 AM

  4 points

  in reply to: John_Maxwell’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Septem­ber 2015

  This feels very much like a setup for saying “But I was wrong, you need experience and other background knowledge to even understand these things” or something like that. Is that the continuation in the book?

• tutSep 13, 2015, 1:27 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: entirelyuseless’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Septem­ber 2015

  In general, sure, there are several reasons why something might be downvoted. But for that comment, the only one I could see any relevance of is that it is a bad quote.

• tutSep 12, 2015, 8:40 AM

  4 points

  in reply to: username2’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Septem­ber 2015

  Why are you using the username account to (re)post trivial determination-signaling quotes? If you are afraid that this will be downvoted, that’s because you realize that it is no good, in which case you shouldn’t post it. If not, why don’t you use your own account?

• tutSep 10, 2015, 6:38 PM

  6 points

  in reply to: gjm’s comment on: Open thread 7th septem­ber − 13th september

  That is ridiculously contrived, and would probably have handed the debate to VofR if you and Imm were the only people arguing against him.

  However RichardKennaway has already given the real answer: They are opportunity seekers in the last leg of their journey, but their starting point in that search is various refugee camps in Turkey and the middle east, to which they fled from war and other real dangers. If you look at the demographics in the refugee camps they look much more like whole families fleeing together.

  Additionally, if one person in a family gets papers to stay legally in any EU country, the rest of the family gets to come here on regular flights with proper visas, which is both safer and cheaper then the boats that the asylum seekers arrive on.

• tutSep 9, 2015, 9:44 AM

  7 points

  in reply to: lmm’s comment on: Open thread 7th septem­ber − 13th september

  Isn’t that exactly the point? For what was traditionally known as refugees, staying was more dangerous than fleeing so young men were more likely to stay and fight while women, small children and old men fled.

  Whereas when you are moving to opportunities staying is safe but unpleasant and moving is dangerous but might be very good. So mostly men move alone and then they send for their families once they have secured a place in the new country. Like Europeans moving to America or Australia, and like modern day refugees.

• tutSep 2, 2015, 1:07 PM

  4 points

  in reply to: IlyaShpitser’s comment on: Open Thread Au­gust 31 - Septem­ber 6

  What Adams does is that he looks at Silver’s estimate, says that it is way too low and then takes 1 minus Silver’s estimate as his own estimate just to make a point. He does not attempt any statistical analysis and the 98% figure should not be taken seriously.

• tutAug 29, 2015, 7:34 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: Jiro’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Au­gust 2015

  How about having a limit to what proportion of another user’s downvotes are allowed to come from one user? So if clarity gets downvoted by 20 people there are no limits to how many votes they can get from each of them, but if it is only Nier going on a spree against a new user he pretty soon runs into 5% or whatever the limit is, and then can’t downvote that user any more.