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Common sense as a prior
Divide12y00

By and large, when people are unwilling to carefully consider arguments with the goal of having accurate beliefs, this is evidence that it is not useful to try to think carefully about this area. This follows from the idea mentioned above that people tend to try to have accurate views when it is in their present interests to have accurate views. So if this is the main way the framework breaks down, then the framework is mostly breaking down in cases where good epistemology is relatively unimportant.

That's one clever trick right there!

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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Divide13y120

I've been a bit confused by the relationships question. I'm currently seeing three people romantically on a semi-regular basis, so I put in 3, but I wouldn't say any of those relations qualify as "relationships", so I selected 'single'. I hope that's the preferred method.

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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Divide13y30

Thanks, and sorry. Fixed.

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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Divide13y40

If you use X11 you'll find that even though the selection clears just after releasing the mouse button, it's been nonetheless placed in the selection buffer (so you can middle-button it somewhere).

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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Divide13y10

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Anybody up to take on the others?

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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Divide13y40

I dunno, on my test it came up higher than expected (and higher than the result of a pro test they gave me in primary school once).

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2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Divide13y190

Huh, I got the date almost right - sadly, the date of death.

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My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
Divide14y20

Thank you for sharing. This seems so obvious, and yet, it has helped me and works wonderfully. I've been able to get started and quite far along the way already (in just a day or so) writing reports that were due months ago and I couldn't have brought myself to work on them even though I find the topic interesting.

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2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
Divide14y140

Just took it.

About the probability questions: I thought you were supposed to answer them instantly for your intuitive stance at the moment, without additional research, though I see some of responders apparently did research. Perhaps it should be better specified what is meant.

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The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality
Divide14y00

drawing an analogy between my social networking behaviour and annealing

Could you elaborate on that?

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