CarlShulman comments on A question of rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PeterS 13 December 2009 08:55:04PM *  13 points [-]

Then from whence came the Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky, your fiction submissions (which I think lately have become of questionable value to LW), and other such posts which properly belong on either your personal blog or the SIAI blog?

I don't think that if any other organization were posting classified ads here that it would be tolerated.

However ugly it sounds, you've been using Less Wrong as a soap box. Regardless of our statement of purpose, you have made it, in part, about you and SIAI.

So I for one think that the OP's post isn't particularly out of place.

Edit: For the record I like most of your fiction. I just don't think it belongs here anymore.

Comment author: CarlShulman 17 December 2009 02:57:21AM *  1 point [-]

I don't think that if any other organization were posting classified ads here that it would be tolerated.

Actually, that's not true, classified ads for both SIAI and the Future of Humanity Institute have been posted. The sponsors of Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong have posted such announcements, and others haven't, which is an intelligible and not particularly ugly principle.

Comment author: PeterS 17 December 2009 03:42:50AM 1 point [-]

You're right. It is the sponsor's prerogative.