我是油腻了还是怎么的，开始看这种东西还看得津津有味
Tips for a Better Life
451–460 of 488 posts
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#452Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Look how often people lose patience with each other online. I think this is largely an issue of scale. Say you are driving on a single-lane, one-way road, which ends at a T intersection with a stop sign. The other road is also 1-way, 1-lane, and does not have a stop sign. It has a traffic light around 20 car lengths after your road. You are waiting for a chance to turn in; the other road has a fair amount of traffi…
My experience differs with the cars. During my life I have moved from very rural area to always denser places. The denser it gets the more helpful the other drivers are. Dunno why this happens.
IMO New York drivers are the least agreeable and a diverse sprawlscape like LA has all kinds, depending on the neighborhood (looking at you Glendale) so neither stereotype align with reality.
I suspect what the GP thinks of as rural is more exurban or even suburban, though IME they're often just as bad. Rural is when you see a handful of cars on an hour long drive so opinions will vary wildly
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#453Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What would pseudo-rationalism even be? Purported rationalism, yes, but the rationalism would be just a smokescreen for positions that are not rationally derived and therefore not addressable by means of rational argument. Such as Yudkowsky believing that torturing a man for 50 years is ok if it means that a very large number of people don't get a single speck of dust in their eye? Or the creator of Roko's Baselisk…
Or the irrational idea of a "dog-whistle" making this a thought-crime to discuss. Because, "of course", "rationally" nobody other than a fascist or such would care for tradition and traditional values or use such terms positively. Only whether you're traditionalist or progressivist or whatever is a value judgement and a world-view, not something to put as rational or irrational. Those that say the opposite irattional…
Did you actually go and read his tweets, or are you arguing on principle with no knowledge of what I am talking about?
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#454Earlier quoted context omitted.
LessWrong lead developer here: The commenting features are pretty embedded in the codebase, so a bit hard to say something specifically about that. A number of people have asked us whether we could somehow make it a package and support the same commenting systems on other sites, but it would be quite a bit of work and really doesn't factor out very nicely. Glad to hear you find them aesthetic! We put a lot of work in…
Yes, the entire site is very well done and I appreciate the design very much. Great job!
Thank you! :)
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#455I think the compassion section has the most wisdom in it, especially the reasoning behind the recommendation: 82. Call your parents when you think of them, tell your friends when you love them. 83. Compliment people more. Many people have trouble thinking of themselves as smart, or pretty, or kind, unless told by someone else. You can help them out. 84. If somebody is undergoing group criticism, the tribal part in yo…
I will exercise these tips for an otherwise sophomoric article
Avoid sophistication that diminishes your enjoyment
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#456Earlier quoted context omitted.
91. don't buy XRP but in seriousness, I think it is easier to apply these rules to people you know than strangers. Look how often people lose patience with each other online. >85. Cultivate compassion for those less intelligent than you. Many people, through no fault of their own, can’t handle forms, scammers, or complex situations. Be kind to them because the world is not. Interestingly, being smart does not protect…
I am not sure if that many smart people got duped by Madoff, surely not for significant %, of their net worth. It's just who the public considers smart often isn't that at all. We had similar scandal in our country with tens of thousands of people being duped into buying some kind of gold secured deposits. We have heard how smart people like doctors, actors, lawyers invested significant % of their net worth on it. I…
A lot of smart people knew he had to be a kind of fraud, but they thought he was their fraud -- it was assumed he was making money through some kind of front running.
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
It tends to be easier to criticize than to see what’s good. What are you trying to accomplish with your comment? (My goal is to help...and farm karma)
I'm aware of whats good, but if you've never thought about these things and actually knew why you should do them, again, I'd say, you're pretty naive.
Let’s assume someone is naive. Doesn’t that just make them feel bad? Is that helpful to them?
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#458Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard before that the smarter you are, the more naive you are. The way I think about it, the smarter you are the more often you are correct about something that no one else is, which causes you to rationally place your judgement above others, which causes you to believe a bunch of nonsense. When presented with counter-evidence, you are more likely to trust your own reasoning than to trust the evidence.
I was told long ago that con men like to target doctors, because doctors believe they are too smart to be scammed.
Also they have lots of money.
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
"If you eliminate all hassle, you could just as much pay people to live instead of you." I take your point, but don't worry, I'm living with the saved time. The CSS example was probably not as good as it could have been. Instead I'd probably be visiting my kids or something like that. I don't think "super productivity" is healthy long term as well. "I wonder if there will come a new celebrity-backed fad (following mi…
I think that's just DIY. Does doing the dishes increase happiness? Unlikely. But fixing something or cooking a new dish is going to venture into learning and thinking and hopefully some level of increased awareness of how other parts of the world work. With that said, there can be real value to walking mindlessly behind a lawn mower for a few hours.
I find doing the dishes somewhat meditative. If I've spent the morning grappling with a difficult work problem then I need something mindless to do for 20 minutes.
Re: Tips for a Better Life
#460Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you eliminate all hassle, you could just as much pay people to live instead of you. There are still a lot of things to do even if you have eliminated all the hassles. Singing, writing, learning a new language, surfing, volunteering as a firefighter, just to name a few. I get it. Some people likes fixing stuff, building stuff with their hands, and it's perfectly interesting to them. At the same time, it's not tha…
> volunteering as a firefighter This seems like exactly the case where I would apply the "There's a professional for that" maxim.
I had a workshop fire once. Grabbing the fire extinguisher and quickly putting it out was defintely a better idea than outsourcing that task.