Questions
Quora-style questions (I’m posting here because Quora has become less accepting of certain types of questions). In general questions with variables in them or with items delimited by a slash (“/”) are supposed to be question schemas; i.e. they are supposed to be separate questions. See also my answer to “What are some good questions that could be asked on Quora for any animal species?” for more question schemas.
- What does X think of calorie restriction?
- What does X think of Roy Baumester’s essay “Is there anything good about men?”
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of deleting one’s lesser Facebook comments?
- What is the relationship between success and dating prospects in the modern world?
- What is it like to only eat a single meal per day for extended periods of one’s life, even though one can afford to eat more?
- What are some traits that reliably predict whether someone prefers synchronous or asynchronous communication?
- What is it like to place a work order in your dorm at the University of Washington?
- What is it like to take math 135 at the University of Washington?
- What is it like to take math 136 at the University of Washington?
- What is it like to prove Abel’s theorem for series?
- What is it like to drive while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to clean your room while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to prove theorems while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to argue with your parents about the use of recreational drugs while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to undress while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to redress while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to engage in a physical fight while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to eat at a fancy restaurant while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to post on Facebook/Quora while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to go running while on marijuana/LSD/psilocybin?
- What is it like to read Rudin’s Principles of Mathematical Analysis for fun?
- What is it like to read Spivak’s Calculus for fun?
- What does X think of the singularity/Peter Thiel/Elon Musk/Mark Zuckerberg/Jeff Bezos/Python/Haskell/Bryan Caplan/Econlog/programming contests/life extension/the quote “Success is like being pregnant; everyone congratulates you but no one knows how many times you got fucked”?
- What are some mental tricks to get you to viscerally start caring about what’s important instead of what seems to be important?
- What are the main arguments against radical life extension?
- What is it like to program on a tablet?
- What is the best way to set up a development environment on a tablet?
- Why is Amazon known for being such a harsh working environment?
- What is it like to watch the Superbowl at the University of Washington when the Seahawks are playing?
- What is the ideal data structure for storing conversations between two individuals/small groups/large groups?
- Why does it seem like in-person discussions are so inefficient compared to online discussions?
- What are some tips for getting out of a cycle of checking one’s various news feeds?
- What is it like to be content with idleness?
- What are some examples of where a documentary is much more useful than a book? (and conversely)
- How can one set up a caching system to archive the web on one’s own web server? (like archive.today)
- How can I remember better to more frequently drink water?
- How plausible is the rectangularization of the mortality curve in the near future?
- Does the rectangularization of the mortality curve imply that old people will be less of a burden? (i.e. if the mortality curve just widened, then there would still be many old people to take care of, but a steep curve would mean less time for people to be sick before they die—?)
- What is it like to be called a “rising superstar” in a field?
- What is it like to always run because one believes walking is irrational/inefficient?
- What are some simple ways to become less dependent on Google/Facebook/Quora?
- What is it like to have dinner with Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex?
- How did Scott Alexander choose “Yvain” for his LessWrong username, and how is it pronounced?
- Is it better to keep my compost container sealed off or open?
- Are there any potential problems of breathing while in close proximity to mold?
- Are there any studies that show the efficacy of to-do lists?
- What is the final say on whether goal-setting works?
- What are the most rigorous treatments of yoga/meditation/mindfulness?
- What is it like to walk around on the University of Washington campus at night?
- What are the best places to get food with your University of Washington husky card meal plan?
- What is it like to be extremely thin except for a single part of your body?
- Does being on good terms with your ex make a breakup easier faster?
- What are all the publicly available datasets on dating/romance information?
- What are all the publicly available datasets on SAT/ACT/GRE-type tests?
- Do exceptional Vim users often edit with the fewest keystrokes possible, or do they use the “most obvious” approach?
- How are text-editing efficiency and computational efficiency related?
- What is it like to have a gay father with a vagina?
- What is it like to have a lesbian mother with a penis?
- What is it like to be a relationship anarchist?
- What is it like to come to terms with one’s own lack of dating prospects?
- How many total marriages has OKCupid/Coffee Meets Bagel/Tinder/Plenty of Fish/etc. led to (individually)?
- How true is the quote “Don’t stress too much trying to remember a lost thought; if it’s really important, you’ll think of it again anyway”?
- What is it like to read a book in class that you’ve already read?
- What are the potential negative health effects of almonds?
- Do college students ever boast about how much/little they spend on textbooks?
- Does lack of sexual activity in young males lead to increased productivity if they can channel the sexual energy into something more fruitful?
- How do people choose how round the frames of their glasses are?
- What surprising things have you noticed while wearing blue-blockers?
- What surprising things have you noticed while carrying a UV meter?
- What is it like to be the person everybody rumors about?
- How rigorous is the idea of the “attention economy/scarcity”?
- How can medium (10–20 people) in-person discussions be made to be more grounded in verifiable facts?
- Why has the main effective altruism website chosen to become yet another “flashy” website?
- How reliable of a world-view can you get just by looking at what other people believe, instead of looking at the object-level?
- Are most people’s lives Ponzi schemes?
- What can you learn by looking at the “like” count of various articles and/or the same article but shared by different people?
- What are some reasons one becomes very hungry late at night but not at all during the day?
- Should people living in places with a hotter climate eat more?
- Why does the mobile GitHub app not support editing of files, and will this feature come in the future?
- What are some things you can learn by observing sliverfish/ladybugs/spiders?
- Bestiality: what is it like to have intercourse with/rape/be raped by/engage in sodomy with/have group sex with X? (where X is an animal species)
- Why does my Quora view count drop significantly if I don’t post any questions for that interval? (i.e. the questions seem to be poorly distributed, or Quora isn’t really producing “long content”)
- Which tech company has the best offices to sleep in?
- Which universities have the best libraries to sleep in?
- How important is the UW Daily relative to other student news papers?
- Are student new papers more important in high school or college?
- What do Caltech students think of The Tech?
- What do UChicago students think of the Chicago Maroon?
- What do University of Washington students think of the The Daily?
- What are the best questions to ask someone who is waiting with you at the bus stop?
- How often do people mistake the views of Bryan Caplan with those of Paul Graham, and conversely?
- What does Bryan Caplan think of overpopulation?
- What are the best sites on anti-aging?
- Which student webpages on http://students.washington.edu actually have content?
- What are the best websites of grad students?
- What are the best websites of undergrad students?
- Which universities allow students to have their webpages?
- What are the most creative things to do with your UW student website (on http://students.washington.edu)?
- Is it less egoistic to write a Quora answer than to write a webpage answering the same question?
- Where can I find rigorous research on the potential differences in the cognitive abilities of different ethnicities?
- Where can I find a comprehensive overview of the sheepskin effect?
- How can one depend less on cloud computing?
- What are all the major arguments against life extension?
- What are all the major arguments for/against seasteading?
- Why are some ideologies more likely to try to form separate societies (e.g. Mormonism, libertarianism)?
- What would an effective altruist missionary look like?
- Does Quora satisfy a real human need?
- What benefits have you noticed from dressing well?
- Why do some people not like Michael Ellsberg?
- What does Michael Ellsberg think of life extension?
- What does Bryan Caplan think of life extension?
- Why do many libertarians seem to like Gilmore Girls?
- What should I do if I feel dizzy from eating too much sugar?
- What are the ethnicities of the top-achieving people in various fields of academia?
- How common is it to receive The Little Prince as a gift?
- How common is it for smartphones to have a tracking device?
- How common is it for now laptops to have a tracking device?
- How common is it for used laptops to have a tracking device? (e.g. it might be the case that old laptops have fewer, but then the old owners/the used computer store placed these devices)
- What is the most exciting research going on at Facebook?
- Will Facebook disrupt academic social science research?
- Has anyone actually found laptop cameras that record even while the computer is off?
- Why isn’t Quora accepting of questions about bestiality?