pjeby comments on Controlling your inner control circuits - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 26 June 2009 05:57PM

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Comment author: pjeby 27 June 2009 11:07:59PM 2 points [-]
  1. See this comment.

  2. Given your statement #1, why would you want to be on a mailing list of "non-rational, non-high IQ" people? ;-)

(I'm joking, of course; I have many customers who read and enjoy OB and LW, though I don't think any have been top-level posters. Interestingly enough, my customers are so well-read that I usually receive more articles on recent research from them as emailed, "hey didja see"s, than I come across directly or see on LW!)

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Comment author: pjeby 27 June 2009 11:56:07PM 1 point [-]

Huh? More articles than you see on LW? That's absurd!

I usually see more articles about recent scientific research from my paying customers than I encounter via LW postings.

Or more precisely, and to be as fair as possible, I remember seeing more articles emailed to me from my customers about relevant research of interest to me than I remember discovering via LW... or such memories are at any rate easier to recall. Less absurd now? ;-)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 28 June 2009 12:21:38AM *  3 points [-]

That's called "irony", hinting to the fact that not a whole lot of articles are cited on LW, too few to warrant it a mention as a measure for the quantity of articles. Routine research browsing makes such quantity irrelevant, the only benefit might come from a mention of something you didn't think existed, because if you thought it existed, you'd be able to look it up yourself.

P.S. I deleted my comment (again) before seeing your reply, thought it's too mindless.