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Even when I notice this explicitly, I often notice it for illegible reasons. It's more like, "that guy has lane-change-to-the-right energy." If you paused time and asked me to give a probability, I would expect to do much better than random guessing, but to be totally unable to justify my distribution, by reference to concrete observations, in words.

OK, I'm glad you replied with this, because I think maybe I was zooming in on the wrong thing. I was kind of thinking of "protecc smol" as being the Parent Thing but maybe a better babysitting anecdote would be something like this:

When I was a teenager, perhaps about two years older than my nephew is now, I was playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo on the SNES, with the secret code I will remember until the day I die (down R up L Y B) unlocking even higher speeds than the already unusually high speed of the game. I generally played it on max difficulty, ... (read more)

Not sure if this is useful or not but an anecdote from a nonkidhaver:

I was playing The Binding of Isaac with my nephew, who was born more recently than it was published, and his guy died, but I was still going. I was just thinking about the game and I didn't notice right away, but at some point I realized that he was excitedly looking at the screen, hoping that I would win it for us, and experienced a step increase in how much I cared about the game. I gained the power to dodge bullets, and eventually, to see the future, and I did ultimately win. It was... (read more)

Can someone with knowledge comment on whether the broken AFT critical thinking PDF link went to the document that's now located here?

https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/2014/Crit_Thinking.pdf

FYI: The link to "The New York Times," by Robert Rhinehart, appears to be broken.  I tried for a few minutes, but didn't find an alternate.

To what extent can the model's superficial resemblance to a person be factored out from the fact that it's hacking you, do you think?  For example, a lot of people are familiar with what it feels like to be hacked by an AI from the akrasia they feel about using Facebook less.  But Facebook can't itself be mistaken for a person; it's more like a distorting lens that shows you versions of already-existing people.

Is there some reason not to select the "friends and family" option in the PayPal interface, for contracts like this?  I decided to participate just now, and I didn't seem to be charged for sending money.