mattnewport comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: mattnewport 17 March 2010 10:57:20PM *  2 points [-]

I don't think most people object to humour here, I think the complaint was not that this was a joke but that it was not a very good joke.

I don't think it's a very good joke for the same reason as rhollerith but then I'm a dyed-in-the-wool C++ programmer so I can't understand why anyone would start indexes at 1...