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Not sure what exactly should count as appropriate, I had assumed that the votes would sort the good from the bad, but maybe people would be less inclined to downvote a book they liked, which could be a problem with a well-liked book.

Is it enough that these comments could serve as a warning, or do you suggest I delete/edit the post?

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter

Heuristics and Biases, collection edited by Daniel Kahneman, Thomas Gilovich and Dale Griffin

Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, collection edited by Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Paul Slovic

Dont understand the "activity" part, the post implied sleeping was fine, so does breathing count?

Stop fussing over voting! Now!

It's an important part of the site, and it'll pay off if it's done well.

Requesting a short summary of the current plans for future changes the voting system, preferably from someone in a position to know.

It's probably not mentioned enough that cryonics can be justified even if it looks like it probably wont work, as long as it's past some threshold.

While we're talking about getting out of bed, try telling yourself to wiggle your toe rather than to get up completely, gets easier from there.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt, the voluntary castration sounds so crazy, but the absurdity heuristic is there for a reason, maybe I gave too much credit for simply being on LW.

I see no reason for this comment other than as some sort of test to see if you get voted down no matter what you say, if that's the case then it's not a very good test. If you absolutely have to do that sort of thing, at least try a new account or something.

How is that good?

Might be easier to manage comments and direct people to it if its a whole post rather than a comment in the may 09 open thread.

But wouldn't the site's earliest days be the time of least newcomers?

I must have misread, lifetime access to lesswrong isn't worth one cent, but you'll voluntarily spend hours of time on it?

I would like to see the results made public, as well as seeing more surveys in general.

Don't have a good indicator of how many people would worry about public data, but as the survey-taking group size increases (as I presume will happen over time on LW) it should become easier to remain unidentifiable.

Plenty of people voluntarily fill out surveys about themselves on social networking sites, and those of us concerned with anonymity probably wouldn't be filling them out either way.

CI only offers full-body, but it's cheaper than Alcor's neuro option.

Are you just scared of the idea of evil aliens, or do you actually think that it's a significant risk that cryonicists recklessly ignore?