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Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies
Insert_Idionym_Here12y30

I think you enormously over-state the difficulty of lying well, as well as the advantages of honesty.

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Post ridiculous munchkin ideas!
Insert_Idionym_Here12y00

Already done this to myself -- it lowers your self-esteem enormously.

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Post ridiculous munchkin ideas!
Insert_Idionym_Here12y00

I used to do exactly this, but I created whole backstories and personalities for my "hats" so that they would be more realistic to other people.

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Rationality Quotes May 2013
Insert_Idionym_Here12y40

It might be more accurate to say that pretty much everything, including what we call biology and physics -- humans are the ones codifying it -- is memetically selected to be learnable by humans. Not that it all develops towards being easier to learn.

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Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational
Insert_Idionym_Here13y00

May I ask how many people any of you have seen walking around entirely barefoot, as opposed to wearing minimalist footwear of any kind?

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Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
Insert_Idionym_Here13y20

To be perfectly honest, at the time I simply planted my face on the table in front of me a few times. I was at a dinner party with friends of my mother's; I would have sounded extremely condescending otherwise.

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Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Insert_Idionym_Here13y10

That is what happened to me.

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Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Insert_Idionym_Here13y10

The lack of this knowledge got me a nice big "most condescending statement of the day award" in lab a year ago.

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Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
Insert_Idionym_Here13y150

I have attempted using this in more casual decision making situations, and the response I get is nearly always something along the lines of "Okay, just let me propose this one solution, we won't get attached to it or anything, just hear me out..."

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The Power of Reinforcement
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One could attempt to fight that by reducing the number or frequency of M&Ms eaten over a long period of time, essentially weaning one's self off of extrinsic rewards.

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