DinoInNameOnly
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I sometimes write about whatever I find interesting. Software Engineer by day. Rationalist-adjacent, I guess.
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DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
It would be nice if pinned posts and comments were easier to distinguish visually from others. On Reddit pinned posts are green and that helps a lot; right now we only have the little pin icon next to the post and it's easy to miss.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Sorting comments by top only sorts the top level comments, replies are still in a different order
DinoInNameOnly
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6mo ago
How often do you spend time socially with somebody 1-1 who is not a family member or someone you’re dating? What do you do, and how do you initiate the interaction?
I realized that I basically never do this since I graduated college, and wondering what other people’s experiences are.
DinoInNameOnly
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7mo ago
How did partnered Mottizens meet their partners? I appreciate all responses but more detail is more interesting, e.g. “we sat next to each other in our second year chemical engineering course and bonded by venting about our terrible professor” is more interesting than “college.”
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
If you lose the advertisers, you lose the site, and then there's no free speech at all for anyone on Twitter... I think he's trying to do the most pro-speech things that are practically possible.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
As The_Nybbler pointed out, there is also a vaccine mandate for foreigners entering the US and Germany has mask a mandate on public transit, so there are mandates that apply to the "general population" too.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Isn't that to be expected, though
I mean, yeah, that was kind of my point back in January.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
My opinion is that at some point it becomes kind of silly to keep using terms coined in blog posts that are almost a decade old now and which have never gained widespread usage elsewhere without ever explaining what they mean or where they came from. At this point you have to expect that many of the people here were not aware of Slate Star Codex or LessWrong circa 2013. Part of my hope is that providing explanations and links to the LW/SSC origins of this community it will encourage newcomers to read more of the "foundational texts" and assimilate better rather than causing a culture shift over time away from the things that made this community great.
I agree with the problem of enabling trolls but this is a tradeoff and honestly I'm confident in our ability to identify someone namedropping shibboleths while trolling.
Although it didn't occur to me when I posted this that it would likely be one of the most visible posts on the subreddit for a while. I'm open to taking it down temporarily (or permanently if that seems to be the community consensus) or moving it to a less visible place.
DinoInNameOnly
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7mo ago
Thanks for the feedback. Re: The first bullet, those sorts of “dates that aren’t dates” are how I used to approach things and my experience was that it’s a good way to make friends. So I started trying to be more direct.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
I haven’t heard this before. Do you have any link about this?
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
We forked their codebase; they’re talking about us because they think that’s interesting.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Like who?
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
This seems plausible, but can you provide any evidence for this claim?
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Is there any technical constraint making us stick to 10k characters for comments like on Reddit? I think the way we use this community means that long comments are really common and are actually the sort of thing we want to encourage. I think 15k or 20k might be better if it's just a config change. Especially since I don't think we have the functionality to lock the top-level comment so people can only reply to the full comment the way we used to.
(I just ran up against the 10k limit for a comment I posted in the CWR and had to trim it.)
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Has anyone brought up the banner image yet? It just looks some weird stock photograph unrelated the Motte and makes the site feel incomplete. I would rather not have it at all.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Mods, can we have an election mega thread please? It seems likely to dominate discussion for this week.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
It's kind of hilarious reading all the Mottizens in this thread explain their interpretations of the term that are way more intelligent and charitable than the truth. It just means "women are a meme, lol".
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
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1yr ago
I’d be more comfortable contributing money if I was confident it would be spent responsibly. Some kind of regular financial report or other kind of transparency would go a long way towards that.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Either I’m misreading you or you’re misreading me. The numbers I shared are for people under 30.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
I think it would be good to also mention that we have a long backlog of development tasks and we welcome volunteer developers who support our mission.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
What is gained by censoring it? It's just letters arranged in a particular order, they can't hurt you. Treating words as though there mere utterance (even when just mentioning them) somehow causes harm is quasi-religious and stupid.
DinoInNameOnly
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6mo ago
I’m astonished that anyone ever managed to date without dating apps.
I’m a 25-year-old man. This year I have been living a very social, outgoing lifestyle. To explain what I mean by that, this is what I’ve done in the past month.
- I went to 4 concerts
- I went to a friend’s birthday party
- I went to 8 Meetup events. Most of them were with a group called “20 somethings in [city]” that mainly does happy hours but I also went to a few board game events and an improv session.
- I hosted 2 game nights myself.
- I informally gathered with friends at bars 2 times
- I went rock climbing with friends 2 times
- I went to a haunted house with some friends.
These weren’t all with the same friends. I have lots of friends and I make new ones fairly often.
I’m hoping to eventually find a girlfriend, and other than dating apps it’s common advice to be very social and meet new people. I do. (Not only for this reason, I also like it.)
The problem is the demographics of those friends. I made a spreadsheet of everyone I’ve done social activities with lately and it was like 70% men and 25% women who are in relationships. Even though it was like 60-70 people, only a handful were single women. And of course being single and female is not the only criteria for being a good match for me. I’ve still yet to go out with a woman I didn’t meet online.
I don’t really understand how anyone did this in the Before Times because I don’t really think my situation is that unusual. I think it’s normal for a man to have more male friends than female friends and it’s also normal for many people in their mid 20s to be in relationships.
For people who regularly find or used to find people to date by means other than dating apps / the Internet, how does it actually work? Is my problem that my milieu is really unusual for having a low ratio of single women? Or is meeting people to date at general social activities unusual for everyone, and “cold approaches” more common than I’d assumed?
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
here's a link to my repost on /r/Medicine, since Reddit's abominable search function makes it impossible to dredge up the original, which had one of the few comments Scott makes in these parts on it, still a highlight of my Reddit career:
I found the TheMotte comment. This website is good for searching Reddit comments.
I agree that there are some people who treated it this way, but then why would Pai/Trump bother repealing it, if that's all it was? Why spend their political capital on this, if it doesn't make a difference?
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