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Meditation practice *after* a retreat is much more important than before a retreat or at random times during the year

Oh boy time to develop strong opinions on forecast precision

I have developed strong opinions on forecast precision

Okay let's go home and do some fucking forecasting research or smth

Is current LW discussion more civil/interesting than Usenet discussion

This would also explain why for many people the main source of meaning in their lives is their job: it's the only place they create.

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Claim: It's well-known that in terms of long-term satisfaction, buying experiences>buying things, but probably the real hierarchy is making things≫buying experiences>buying things.

How about we bring back "methinks" instead of "imho"?

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They follow this up with another proposal, "move to hollywood and do fraud"

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Asymmetric info has biggest relevance in one-shot high-cost purchases.

Jobs are not in that category very much: repeated medium-value transactions with high info content early on.

But one can make asymmetric info more important, e.g. by making it harder to quit/fire quickly.

Also the reason for focus on used cars as examples in asymmetric info teaching

Sila can just be to work on an assignment first thing in the morning, before meditation

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What competition? THERE IS NO COMPETITION ON A SERIOUS LEVEL

I have probably done daygame sessions where I've asked out more women than most men have in their entire lives 🤐

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