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Anonymous asked:

Do you have advice for a young impressionable mind in the midst of deciding between colleges? I have no idea where to go among a handful of mildly prestigious undergrad programs (Penn, Georgetown, Cal, History at Cambridge) to study something that is hopefully useful but doesn't involve much math. Is there a Rationalist answer to this?

Don’t ask me, I ended up going to an expensive college that I didn’t really like and didn’t end up getting much out of.

This site looks pretty interesting: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/05/20/313985038/is-this-any-way-to-pick-a-college

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I've been logging every dose that I take of Fast Acting Symptom Reliever. The doctor thought I took it too often so prescribed Daily Preventative That Might Take Several Weeks To Start Working, which I started taking several weeks ago. I still log my doses of Fast Acting Symptom Reliever. What statistic do you suggest calculating for testing the hypothesis that the daily medicine reduces the number of doses I take of the symptom-reliever?

I can’t do anything fancy, so I vote for just seeing if you took Fast Acting Symptom Reliever less in the three month period after you started Daily Preventative than the three month period before.

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If you were Bruce Willis, would you go back for the watch? (This is one of my favourite allegories for Judaism ever)

Man, I don’t know. I think during that scene I was thinking that I would leave without the watch, then have a friend get it a few weeks later and mail it to me. I know that’s a cop-out answer, but cop-out answers are all I’ve got.

But if I did, I definitely wouldn’t stay around to make Pop-Tarts.

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Is there a sense in which importing immigrants from low-income nations will lower the average wealth of a country? It's true that the huddled masses yearning to breathe free are what made New York the greatest city in the world, but at the same time, I suspect many New Yorkers would trade all that for life in one of the high-income European cities that can afford to renovate its subways and keep its streets from smelling like garbage.

I think you’re right to ask “Is there a sense?”

That is, the naive answer is like the story of the economists in the bar. Bill Gates walks in, and the economists start dancing and cheering, shouting “Hooray! On average, everyone in this bar is really rich right now!”

A lot of worries about immigration sound kind of like economists in a bar, and then a homeless guy walks in, and then they start crying and sobbing because now on average the people in the bar are poorer.

I think there are some people kind of developing the intellectual work it would take to be more sophisticated than this - like Garett Jones - but I’m not convinced that actual immigration opponents have read them or are familiar with them.

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is it cool if i start posting on Less Wrong and expounding on UNSONG like it's a religious text? (sort of like what you did to 'There's a Hole in My Bucket' in Interlude ו). i kind of don't want to accidentally make you into a religious figure without your consent.

I don’t think Less Wrong would be an appropriate place for this. If you really want to do it, maybe /r/unsong or /r/slatestarcodex.

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ADD doesn't exist. I'm sure it's more than 20% of people misdiagnosed with it. You're incentivized to pretend it does exist though so =\ just know that my medication ruined my childhood and I have no doubts it ruined others.

Request fewer of these “you are wrong and bad but I will not explain why” asks.

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Have recent world events affected in any way the confidence you expressed on the efficacy of kindness in "In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization"?

I don’t think so, though I haven’t thought about this a lot and if you explain why they might then I might have a better answer.

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Why can't we cut out that thing in the corner of our eye that always itches?

I’m not sure I have this thing. Or, I mean, my eye has a corner, and it itches sometimes, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a specific thing there that can be cut out. Am I missing something?

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Could the "holiday death spike" thing be related to it being the few days right after the solstice, IE some of the coldest, darkest, most depressing days of the year?

The studies show that the death spike is the same in northerly cold latitudes vs. southerly warm latitudes, so probably not.

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If I've previously taken prescription drugs without a prescription for a long time (ones that are psychoactive but not drugs of abuse, e.g. modafinil or antidepressants), what's likely to happen if I mention this to a doctor when it's relevant? Sometimes it seems useful for explaining what has and hasn't worked for me, but I get nervous that if I mention it it'll brand me as Irresponsible or Potentially Drug-Seeking or something else that gets me something between "yelled at" and "not treated".

Hard to say and depends on variability among doctors. If you’re trying to get them to prescribe you that same drug, maybe not the best idea.

I have had a lot of patients ask for Adderall on the grounds that “I took one of my brother’s Adderalls and it really helped”, and I don’t hold it against them, but I can’t promise nobody will.

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