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Scheduling emails and text messages can help. But you risk sending outdated replies if you get another message in the meantime. I wish there was a feature to automatically cancel a scheduled message.
Another rule of thumb, I think also from Atomic Attraction: roughly mirror people’s response times. If someone takes days to get back to you, and you answer right away, you come off low value, even desperate.
social_intell on IG says the way to distinguish between genuine interest and polite dismissal is specificity.
If someone says ‘keep me posted on that’ or ‘we should hang out sometime’, that’s vague; they’re politely ending the conversation. If you do follow up with them, you’re outing yourself as low value and socially incompetent.
If they really want you to follow up, or if they really want to hang out again, they’ll be specific and create action: ‘let me introduce you to my colleague Peter, he can solve your problem, what’s your email?’, or ‘are you free next Wednesday at 7?’
Daniel Vassallo says to give, give, give, give before you ask. In other words, provide much more value than you hope to get from others. Only then can you realistically expect anything back.
When somebody asks what you do for a living, there’s two layers to this question, according to IG account social_intell.
One layer is surface: taking the question literally, answering literally like ‘I’m a project manager at company X.'
But social_intell says they’re really gauging your status and whether you extract or provide value. You should explain what problem you can solve for people and what you’re building: eg “I help companies build products people actually want. What about you?”
I forget if I came up with this myself or if I read this somewhere.
Another rule of thumb: in verbal group conversations, like in Twitter spaces, keep an eye on speakers’ average mic time and try not to go above that. (Realistically, that means undershooting the average, because you’re liable to underestimate your own mic time.) Consistently going above will come off as rambling or dominating.
I read Atomic Attraction years ago but I remember liking it. I’ve spoken to the author, Christopher Canwell. As I recall, he argues that the ratio between gray and blue text bubbles should be roughly 1:1. As a rule of thumb.
I'm not saying we can't extend our ideas through imagination, creativity etc.
That’s what you were originally saying in #3626. That’s what the claim “Living according to reason and rationality alone is impossible” amounts to.
A concept or idea with no experiential grounding is meaningless.
Maybe, but that’s different from confusing a parochial factor for a fundamental one.
Basically, a small part of the notion of ‘easy to vary’ gets to live on in Veritula as an approximation, as Popper would phrase it.
That’s only some of the criticisms though. Others have nothing to do with easy/hard to vary.
But the criticisms don’t try to find out how easy to vary the Persephone myth is. Nor do we try to find out how hard to vary the axis-tilt theory is.
@liberty-fitz-claridge take a look at this discussion as a whole. At the time of writing, the Persephone myth (#4240) has 5 pending criticisms, whereas the axis-tilt theory (#4243) has no pending criticisms. Hence a rational preference for the latter: Veritula says to reject ideas with pending criticisms and adopt those without.
If any prediction of this theory is found to be false, we can easily change it to make different predictions. That’s bad.
“[W]e have no way of knowing that Demeter is sad…” (BoI chapter 1)
“[P]eople do not generally cool their surroundings when they are sad…” (BoI chapter 1)
[T]he true explanation of seasons [says] that the Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted relative to the plane of its orbit around the sun. Hence for half of each year the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun while the southern hemisphere is tilted away, and for the other half it is the other way around. Whenever the sun’s rays are falling vertically in one hemisphere (thus providing more heat per unit area of the surface) they are falling obliquely in the other (thus providing less).
[S]urfaces tilted away from radiant heat are heated less than when they are facing it, and … a spinning sphere in space points in a constant direction.
[W]hy those gods and not others? …
[W]hy is it specifically a magic seed and not any other kind of magic? Why is it a conjugal-visits contract and not some other reason for someone to repeat an action annually?
This explanation basically just says “the gods did it.” The details have no bearing on the underlying explanation.
This explanation predicts that the seasons happen at the same time everywhere. It contradicts observation: in Australia, the seasons are ‘inverted’.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but potatoes seem to be a good source of fiber. Very filling, also due to their high water content.
Carbonated water and diet sodas also feel filling, and they don’t even have calories. Diet sodas can help people lose weight. I like to drink Diet Coke when I’m on a cut. The caffeine gives me energy.
Done as of e612125, polished as of 046438f.
For these reasons, diets that are equal in calories but that vary in nutritional content can have vastly different weight gain/loss outcomes.
I don’t know if I agree with the word “vastly”. People have done Twinkie diets where they eat nothing but Twinkies (plus some supplements to get the bare minimum) while monitoring calories and they lost weight.
Still, I’ll edit my idea to say that people should get all the nutrients they need while in a deficit.