wedrifid comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Kevin 10 February 2010 03:15AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 14 February 2010 06:03:29AM 0 points [-]

That's a good point. 50,000 people who click the charity-happy link don't mean nearly as much as a similar number of people making signals that actually cost something. ie. 50,000 people that craig would think actually care.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 14 February 2010 05:53:51PM 0 points [-]

I don't know how Craig would judge the signers of a petition. I'm more concerned that there would be a counterbalancing population seriously opposed. or a large population mildly opposed, but this would be hard for him to assess.