| Post & comment count |
Date |
Author |
Title or First Words |
| Open Discussion (2019) (338) |
2019/07/20 |
Frisco |
Fact check: 50 powers of 10 |
| Rationally Resolving Conflicts of Ideas (136) |
2019/07/20 |
Logician |
#13136 Shouldn't 90% be N%? The argument doesn't depend on it being 90 rather than 77, so there is no reason to introduce 90 as part of the constant form of the argument instead of as a variable part.
Similarly, "%" means "per 100" but the argument |
| Mario Odyssey Discussion (99) |
2019/07/20 |
Anonymous |
> After I'm able to do a speed run of the whole game without having to check the videos or my ordered list, then I should start recording my times. From this point going forward, I’ll be measuring my progress by checking to see that my times are get |
| Submit Podcast Questions (96) |
2019/07/20 |
Anonymous |
#13133 And adding to the question, here is the Safeway judgment that sent me $20, what about that one specifically? http://www.safewaygrocerydeliveryclassaction.com |
| Time-Based Metric For Overreaching (2) |
2019/07/18 |
curi |
Some comments on overreaching from the [Fallible Ideas Discord chatroom](https://discord.gg/B3nCeCJ) today:
[7:48 PM] curi: If you have experience both with projects where you get overwhelmed (that's a typical way that overreaching feels) and proje |
| Open Thread: Objectivism Discussion (127) |
2019/07/18 |
Kate |
IIRC, Wright has been mentioned here before: https://www.hbletter.com/
HBL offers a free 2-week trial if you want to ask your questions there. |
| Politics Discussion (58) |
2019/07/17 |
Dagny |
https://reason.com/1981/02/01/love-canal/
Summary: Lovel Canal was a fraud. The chemical company was by far the most responsible and moral actor in what happened. The school board only got the property by threatening to take it with eminent domain, |
| Physics Discussion (38) |
2019/07/17 |
curi |
https://blog.rongarret.info/2019/07/the-trouble-with-many-worlds.html
I asked Ron to identify which quotes from a DD physics paper – that Ron claimed to have studied and understand, had had recommended to others – that he disagreed with. He said |
| YouTube and Fair Use (6) |
2019/07/15 |
curi |
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These actually weren't fair use. I just played some music while streaming today. But the video doesn't get blocked and those parts don't get muted, so it seems fair enough. (Muting the music sec |
| Morality (4) |
2019/07/15 |
Andy |
WRT the drowning child: I think there's social status to be gained from having personally jumped in and saved a kid from drowning. I don't think that's why most people would do it in the first place, but once they've done it then the social status gai |
| Open Letter to Charles Tew (44) |
2019/07/14 |
curi |
Tew is kinda like Mallory. He has some talent, some skill, some ability to actually think and produce. But he's miserable. He's wasting his life just like Mallory was when Roark found Mallory. Tew drinks and makes, what, 3 hours of philosophy content |
| English Language, Analysis & Grammar (2) |
2019/07/13 |
curi |
Standard tip: If a word ends in "ly", it's probably an adverb.
Advanced tip: If a word has a *synonym* that ends in "ly", it's probably an adverb.
This advanced tip it's from Justin in his [video about part 3 of the grammar article](https://www. |
| Social "Intellectuals" (5) |
2019/07/12 |
curi |
I found him yesterday. He seems maybe OK. Nothing stood out as great so far. I think he's not very technical – besides pointing a camera at his computer instead of recording a screen, he's e.g. not very precise at dealing with details about how brai |
| Alan Discussion (28) |
2019/07/12 |
Alan |
#13042 I think the video is not very good at explaining the author's position. For example, I think he thinks the text on the slide at 21 seconds into the video is wrong, but the video doesn't clearly state that.
The discussion of the physics is a |
| Letter to Jordan Peterson on Antidepressants and Rational Discussion (14) |
2019/07/11 |
Anonymous |
#13024 You can see the sources which explain that mental illness is a myth in the original blog post. You have refuted none of that material. |
| Open Discussion: Economics (184) |
2019/07/11 |
Anonymous |
I really enjoyed this criticism of Negative Income Tax in Hazlitt's "Man vs. The Welfare State"
>Some readers may think that the dilemma of the NIT scheme can somehow be escaped by changing the percentage by which the relief payment or income suppl |
| I Made New Videos (5) |
2019/07/11 |
Ryann |
It is really a good article, actually you can also use site: https://youtubetomp3music.com/ to create mp3/mp4 file from most video or music sites.
It is free and no registration required. |
| How Comments Work (5) |
2019/07/10 |
curi |
Have now patched so that if you put whitespace around asterisks, and use single asterisks, they will not create italics.
Test: * no italics * but then *this* is italic |
| What To Read (62) |
2019/07/09 |
curi |
I read Heinlein's *6xH* and *The Past Through Tomorrow*. Good stuff. I skip stories I already read in the last few months. Next I'll be looking through some individual short stories to see if I can find any that I missed. I'm about done with Heinlein. |
| Are rules your ally or your enemy? (4) |
2019/07/07 |
Anonymous |
>because they don't want to be robbers and they discourage robbery by tell people
I think you might have meant "by telling people"
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| Anne Discussion (38) |
2019/07/06 |
Anonymous |
You can go into less detail on grammar stuff if you prefer. You don't have to know how every word works. That's up to you. |
| Writing Update (1) |
2019/07/05 |
curi |
Do you write? Or read? Do you have any daily or weekly intellectual goals *of your own* (rather than just to pass your classes or do your job)? |
| Globalism (5) |
2019/07/05 |
Anonymous |
Twitter is banned in China so somebody made this
https://t.me/s/realDonaldTrumpTwitter |
| Podcast Discussion (5) |
2019/07/04 |
curi |
Sometimes the prologue would be interesting to read *last*. After I read the book, now I'll understand it and care. Sometimes I think they should have put it at the end of the book, not the start. The acknowledgments should go at the end too (and in s |
| Open Discussion: Religion (21) |
2019/07/02 |
curi |
Don't post naked pictures of people's asses here. You can link to them but you ought to give a warning like NSFW. Don't post them as actual images that will show up here.
BTW, I see that your competence at following simple instructions for how to f |