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
I’m really not convinced anyone is consciously deciding to fake tourette’s to get out of schoolwork.
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Tourette’s doesn’t really get you out of schoolwork. It’s not contagious so you don’t need to be kept away from other people and it’s not a condition that goes away after a day or two of rest so there’s no reason to allow that time.
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Tourette’s is a permanent condition, which means deciding to fake it credibly is a lifelong commitment.
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It’s a difficult condition to fake. If you tell your parents you have a stomachache or a headache, they just have to take your word for it, but someone faking tourette’s has to remember to tic regularly.
Anyone who thought about it for a minute would realize, as you did, that it makes way more sense to fake an infection.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
The report comment button is grayed out and clicking it doesn't do anything.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
DinoInNameOnly
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7mo ago
Thanks for the reply. In-person wasn’t really a practical option; we meet too rarely and only in group settings.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
I do well with older men and young(ish) women, most younger men do better with young men and older women
Why?
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
I think maybe they meant to add a count of how many children a comment has, like it does on Reddit
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
I think this is only on mobile, I don’t see it on desktop but I do on mobile
DinoInNameOnly
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6mo ago
Thanks for your reply. For what it’s worth, my experience is not consistent with the theory that “tier 2” social events have higher ratios of women than “tier 1” social events. I’ve been to private parties that are almost entirely men.
DinoInNameOnly
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6mo ago
I don’t think I would ever get a female roommate… Apparently for you it went very well, but it definitely has the potential to go badly, including in ways that at first appeared to be going very well.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
It's not Tourette's because it's a mass sociogenic illness that mimics Tourette's, according to the article. But I interpreted your comment as saying that it's a sociogenic illness either, it's kids consciously faking Tourette's to get out of work.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
I went ahead and created an issue for this: https://github.com/themotte/rDrama/issues/360
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Actually A Quality Contribution. It was an option when reporting comments if you wanted to highlight a comment to the mods as particularly good.
DinoInNameOnly
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7mo ago
Probably, yeah
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
The Republican party is not the same thing as conservatism. In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, there were lots of conservative Democrats in elected office; now there are basically none. I agree that conservatives were in a better position in 2017 than they are in 2023 or were in 2009, but it’s certainly not an all-time high watermark for conservatism.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
We do have data about comments per day etc. See www.themotte.org/stats, www.themotte.org/daily_chart, and www.themotte.org/weekly_chart.
Actually the daily and weekly charts aren't working right now for some reason but they normally do.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
The analogous case to art being used to train a model is code being used to train a model, and that's what GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex are. Most software engineers like the idea.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
No, like I said it’s 47% of younger Trump voters that are female.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Zorba explained it here: https://www.themotte.org/post/2/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/778?context=8#context
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Can comment scores please be hidden for the first 24 hours like they were on Reddit? I think having scores visible immediately can change how people react to a comment (in particular, it can encourage dogpiling or 'ratio-ing' someone who has expressed an unpopular viewpoint) and I'm really worried that this has the potential to shift the tone and composition of this community over time.
One thing that has worked quite well for me is this service called FocusMate. How it works is you get paired with someone on the service for a video call that lasts 25 or 50 minutes. You share at the beginning what you're working on and want to accomplish by the end of the session. Then you turn off your mic and do it for the rest of the session. At the end you check in with them and share how much you were actually able to do. It sounds dumb but it works better than anything else does to get me to stop surfing Reddit/YouTube/Wikipedia and actually get something done.
It sounds like your concern is not only about work but lesiure time too. FocusMate can be used for many leisure activities too. For example, if you want to read a book, you can say you want to read X pages in the session.
If you find that you don't know what you actually want to do with your leisure time when you have to structure it like that, that might be part of your problem.
DinoInNameOnly
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7mo ago
Thanks for the kind response. This helped me feel less bad about it.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Unemployed for a while before I start my next job. I’m staying with family and I’ve ruled out significant travel because I want to spend time with them. But I won’t be glued to them 24/7 so I have a lot of free time. How should I spend it? More importantly, how do I hold myself to whatever I decide to do instead of watching YouTube all day?
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
Do you have any examples? I have not seen people arguing that people do not have natural differences in conscientiousness etc.
DinoInNameOnly
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1yr ago
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?
Thank you. She’s not a big texter AFAICT and the most likely thing that happened was that she read this and thought about it for 30 seconds and forgot to reply because she was in the middle of something and had other more urgent messages which really isn’t that bad, but I can’t help overthinking.
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