Comments on: Apologia Pro Vita Sua

By: Lorxus

Lorxus — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 20:44:35 +0000

Better yet – “Make a desperate effort, as if you just noticed your scuba tank was empty.”

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By: Joachim Schipper

Joachim Schipper — Sat, 31 May 2014 20:31:19 +0000

Same here. Scott, thanks for writing!

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 May 2014 22:40:51 +0000

Asking for money or loans from friends and family (which they may or may not plan to repay), or theft in more extreme cases, in my experience.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 May 2014 22:40:36 +0000

Asking for money loans from friends and family (which they may or may not plan to repay), or theft in more extreme cases, in my experience.

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By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 29 May 2014 09:45:24 +0000

I’m curious, what do people do to get heroin money, that they wouldn’t be willing to do otherwise? I expect working overtime, working two jobs, begging, borrowing, theft, prostitution, from stereotypes, but real people are probably more interesting.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 May 2014 05:45:15 +0000

Now I feel bad for making fun of the first (two?) Anonymous(es?) at the expense of giving unambiguous feedback. But yes, Slate Star Codex is far more enjoyable and somewhat higher-quality than Less Wrong is these days… Less Wrong seems to have deteriorated into Mostly Just the *&$^ Rationality Quotes Threads and really hostile arguments.

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By: blacktrance

blacktrance — Tue, 27 May 2014 21:34:24 +0000

Nthed + 1

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By: Paul Torek

Paul Torek — Tue, 27 May 2014 09:47:51 +0000

Nthed! (I feel about it so strongly it counts many times)

As a quasi-semi-sorta-Kantianesque ethicist, I’d also say you owe it to yourself to restore your energy this way.

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By: Paul Torek

Paul Torek — Tue, 27 May 2014 09:44:34 +0000

Nthed!

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By: Itai Bar-Natan

Itai Bar-Natan — Mon, 26 May 2014 21:05:39 +0000

Since you didn’t state this explicitly, I want to point out that this whole post is really an expansion on the comment you made in Right Is The New Left:

“(writing blog entries doesn’t require free time. They just appear.)”

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