wedrifid comments on Debunking komponisto on Amanda Knox (long) - Less Wrong
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I found it a little hard to predict based on the information he supplied. He only gave links to the pro/against sites, from what I recall, with somewhat of a warning about the wikipedia article that was then under constant flux. The only way that I could reliably predict that Kompo believed Knox to be innocent was that he wouldn't have brought a court judgement to our attention if he agreed with it.
That's why I tried to emphasize the controversy surrounding the verdict, rather than the verdict itself. For all anyone should have been able to tell, maybe I thought they were clearly guilty and that all this media fuss about innocence was the result of American national bias, or Knox's pretty face, or something.
You did a good job of hiding your beliefs, given the circumstances. The amount that you cared on a personal level did leak through a little.
Even in the first post?
That is what my subjective human emotion modelling intuitions told me at the time. I can't attest to those judgements being fair. But people usually post on things they care about and I have no problem with that whatsoever.
Interesting. Well, "fair" or not, your judgment was certainly correct in this instance.
And I don't mind. I'm totally not ashamed of caring about this.