komponisto comments on Debunking komponisto on Amanda Knox (long) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 03 February 2010 01:26:20AM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 February 2010 01:32:28AM 4 points [-]

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.

Comment author: komponisto 03 February 2010 01:39:53AM 0 points [-]

Even in the first post?

Comment author: wedrifid 03 February 2010 01:44:31AM *  3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: komponisto 03 February 2010 02:33:26AM *  0 points [-]

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.