zero_call comments on Pascal's Pyramid Scheme - Less Wrong

7 Post author: patrissimo 31 January 2010 06:56PM

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Comment author: zero_call 01 February 2010 01:32:41AM 1 point [-]

Who gets to be the arbiter of humor? It's an individual interpretation, not a proclamation to be made by one for all.

Comment author: RobinZ 01 February 2010 02:08:31AM 4 points [-]

I am not quite so daft as that - I'm genuinely glad you enjoyed the story (presuming you did) and have no negative opinion of you or anyone who chooses to disagree with me on a matter of this kind. I found it as preposterous and heavy-handed as a Chick tract, and did not like it for that reason.

Comment author: Alicorn 01 February 2010 03:38:22AM 5 points [-]

But Chick tracts are so entertainingly awful!

Comment author: RobinZ 01 February 2010 04:16:33AM 1 point [-]

Will you think less of me if I say I didn't like Catch-22 either? (:

Comment author: Kevin 01 February 2010 02:13:37AM 3 points [-]

Honestly, I thought it was worthwhile just for the Pascal's Pyramid Scheme joke; most of the text is extraneous to that main joke, which is clever and funny.

Comment author: RobinZ 01 February 2010 04:16:54AM 1 point [-]

I can understand that, but I couldn't get past the surface.

Comment author: zero_call 01 February 2010 03:33:02AM 0 points [-]

Right on. I was maybe a little over sensitive about your style of opinion.

Comment author: RobinZ 01 February 2010 03:40:30AM 0 points [-]

No, you were perfectly justified - I dithered quite a bit about posting it that way precisely because it is such an arrogant way to express my personal opinion.