billswift comments on Open Thread: September 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 11 September 2009 08:11:30PM *  0 points [-]

Several times recently I asked for simple clarifications about a comment that replied to something I wrote, and had my question ignored. (See here, here, and here.) And I don't know why. Did I violate some rule of etiquette, or what? How can I rephrase my questions to get a better response rate?

ETA: Here are the questions, in case people don't want to search through the comments to find them:

  • But I'm not sure what you mean by "metaethics, a solved problem". Can you give a link?
  • What prior work are you referring to, that hasn't been broadly disseminated?
  • What is the remaining Problem that you're referring to?
Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 September 2009 08:05:40PM 1 point [-]

In my case, what tends to happen is that I either don't notice the question, or I notice that the question requires a bunch of work to respond to and then either get to it some time later or let it slide off entirely.

Comment author: CarlShulman 13 September 2009 04:21:33AM *  1 point [-]

"or I notice that the question requires a bunch of work to respond to and then either get to it some time later or let it slide off entirely"

Or don't recall it.