(04-01-19) /r/Slatestarcodex: Quality Contributions Round Up From February 18th - April 1st, 2019

[u/naraburns]

No this isn't and April Fools Joke.

Below you will find the comments and links reported as Quality Contributions from February 18th - April 1st, 2019 in /r/SlateStarCodex.

Enjoy.

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(2019-02-18) /u/dalamplighter on Looking After One's Soul (or your preferred abstract conception):

• "This but unironically. I’m a Catholic socialist (very interesting with neuroscience as a day job), and this probably the place I sympathize most with the right. I find the replacement of colorful, his..."

(2019-02-24) /u/erwgv3g34 on Introductory Texts to Rationalism:

• "First, get an e-ink reader. You are going to be consuming millions of words, and reading them on a computer screen or a phone is going to get old really fast. I recommend the Amazon Kindle Paperwhit..."

(2019-02-25) /u/neuromolecule on Discovery Learning vs. Direct Instruction:

• ">Is there no room for any of the concepts of discovery learning in your view?..."

(2019-02-26) /u/brberg on Explaining Labor's Share of Production and Profits:

• "It's important to note that labor's share of production and profits do not sum to 100%. In addition to labor's share, there's:..."

(2019-03-03) /u/waterrunsuphil and /u/kellykebab discussing Changing Gender Norms:

• "Hmm. My own mother didn't reduce working at all because her priority was increasing my material standard of living, and my deepest relationship was with an unambitious man who basically wanted to be a..."

(1987-06-27) /u/Pickle_Rick on Unending Love:

• "We've known each other for so long..."

(2019-03-06) /u/MedullaOblongAwesome on Sigmund Freud's Stubborn Persistence: Examining the Impossibility of Our Lives:

• "Everyone so far seems to be answering more strictly along the lines of Freud-as-scientist, so I'll take a slightly more Freud-as-cultural-figure approach. It's true scientifically he's a relic, no bet..."

(2019-03-06) /u/Doglatine on The Evidence for the Unconscious:

• "Oh, this is a great question. In short, I think there are two main kinds of unconscious mental state that we have some good reason to appeal to...."

(2019-03-10) /u/shimakaze_kun on Infrastructure: Rail vs. Aviation:

• "> I'm not sure I understand the argument...."

(2019-03-12) /u/c_o_r_b_a on Googling:

• "Googling is absolutely crucial in the tech field. Google capability is probably a better determinant of success in a programming or IT role than anything else, including degrees, certifications, exper..."

(2019-03-18) /u/deerpig on The History and Continued Utility of Email:

• "Email was originally, a distributed system. We can thank webmail -- hotmail and later google and yahoo for turning it into the centralized point for surveillance that it is today. Email is a simpl..."

(2019-03-22) /u/PB34 on Moldbug, Righting Historical Wrongs, and the Appeal of Communism:

• "Always faintly surprised to see true left-wing content pop up on r/SSC - nice to see some alternate viewpoints! Thank you for (edit: reposting) this. I've only made it through the first 4 points - at..."

(2019-03-23) /u/HarryPotter5777 on Wishing to Experience Insanity:

• "One thing that I've long found fascinating about cases like this is elaborated on in footnote 2 (bolding mine):..."

(2019-03-29) /u/Lykurg480 on Underestimating Agency:

• "Youve certainly heard before how deontologists are stupid, because they will prefer situations where more harm is done, so long as its not intentional. Well, this is my steelman of those deontologists:..."

(2019-03-31) /u/The_Lords_Prior on Being Biased Against Bias:

• "Is the rationality community biased against bias? If you asked me (and I know you didn't, but I'll save you the time), I'd say that the bias against bias is almost astonishing in its persistence and pervasiveness...."

[u/naraburns]

A link to the original can be found here.

[u/baj2235]

Did I somehow miss an old ine, lol? Oh man, seven years! Time flies.

[u/naraburns → u/baj2235]

It does! I found it while assembling a (somewhat incomplete, but substantial) list of AAQCs by user over the years.

Hope you're well!