| Post & comment count |
Date |
Author |
Title or First Words |
| Static Memes Are About Social Dynamics (34) |
2020/01/20 |
Anonymous |
Requesting definitions |
| TheRat Chat (4) |
2020/01/20 |
Anonymous |
Rodent |
| List of Fallible Ideas Evaders (54) |
2020/01/19 |
curi |
Since it doesn't make a large difference anyway, I went ahead and changed the contact info for Bruce from his email to his Twitter. |
| Social Reality and Real Reality (3) |
2020/01/19 |
Anne B |
Wow. I thought about this post for a while and read it a few times. Then I started noticing that I think about the social world *a lot*, way more than I would have thought I did.
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| Second-handedness Examples (34) |
2020/01/19 |
Anne B |
From an ad I got by snail mail:
[transcribed, so there may be errors]
> Special Invitation
> You are cordially invited to an Educational Evening to learn how to Navigate Retirement at the prestigious [name of local fancy place] Country Club.
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| English Language, Analysis & Grammar (17) |
2020/01/19 |
curi |
Since a human or salmon swimming are pretty different actions, "swim" is more ambiguous than a noun like "apple" or "salmon".
It's verb/action words which are less specified and noun/thing/object words which are more specified, in general. It's jus |
| Shadow Starshine Chat (2) |
2020/01/19 |
44783 |
#15025 |
| [Excerpt] I was tired yesterday and my last post ha... (4) |
2020/01/19 |
44783 |
#15077 |
| Discussion with "Critical Rationalist" (10) |
2020/01/19 |
44783 |
#15096 |
| Ayn Rand Quotes Discussion (4) |
2020/01/19 |
44783 |
#15127 |
| Open Discussion 2 (2019) (127) |
2020/01/18 |
Anonymous |
https://youtu.be/t0x46-enxsA |
| Mario Odyssey Discussion (190) |
2020/01/18 |
curi |
I think it's good to break the level up into sections to learn separately. |
| Leftist Lying: The Issue Is Never the Issue (2) |
2020/01/13 |
Curi is a hypocrite |
curi censors emails |
| Red Pill Comments (1) |
2020/01/09 |
curi |
If I say:
> [redpill] Why octuple text me? Obsessed much?
That's not a socially calibrated comment by me. It's too blatant. The way to social climb is to call attention to the low social status behavior in a subtle way, that way I put the other |
| Getting Caught Using PUA (4) |
2020/01/08 |
curi |
Index page where you can look for interesting post titles:
https://illimitablemen.com/archives/ |
| Refutation of Tabarrok’s Criticism of Reisman (3) |
2020/01/07 |
Anonymous |
Positive reviews of Capitalism:
https://mises.org/library/truly-austrian-treatise
http://www.capitalism.net/freeman.htm
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=298E0A9CBD6905B310E23536AD5ABC98?doi=10.1.1.25.4528&rep=rep1&type |
| Rational Discussion Tips (45) |
2020/01/07 |
curi |
asking and answering short questions helps avoid misunderstandings and surprises. if the answers are so predictable and unproblematic, it should be possible to go through it quick, no big deal. if it becomes a hassle, that's a sign of misunderstanding |
| Third Type of Meme: Static Companion Memes (38) |
2020/01/07 |
Anonymous |
#15018 Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure why I wrote the regress is not good after having stated the new problem is simpler than the original problem. The regress will bottom out and fairly quickly, as you explain in your link.
One thing this hig |
| I Changed My Mind About David Deutsch (23) |
2020/01/07 |
oh my god it's turpentine |
#15033 Then you won't have much trouble pointing out a actual flaw in Elliot's writings. |
| Potential Debate Topics (17) |
2020/01/04 |
curi |
Another Topic: Privacy |
| Open Discussion: Economics (195) |
2020/01/04 |
curi |
There are two different ways an idea can be empirical.
1) The idea was inspired by evidence. We used evidence to help develop the idea.
2) The idea makes claims about observable facts, so we could use evidence to test the idea.
The main ideas |
| Bad Scholarship: Merchants of Despair by Robert Zubrin (16) |
2020/01/03 |
Anonymous |
There are atoms outside earth |
| Alisa Discussion (78) |
2020/01/02 |
Alisa |
I updated my paths forward doc |
| Mind Map Software Review (2) |
2020/01/02 |
GISTE |
Mindly |
| Social Climbing Is Incompatible with the English Language (3) |
2019/12/30 |
curi |
#14988 Social reality contradicts physical reality, logic, facts and science in many ways.
Social climbing means focusing on the opinions of other people instead of, and in contradiction to, the real world you live in. It means e.g. looking for wha |