bentarm comments on How to always have interesting conversations - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 14 June 2010 12:35AM

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Comment author: bentarm 14 June 2010 11:13:46PM 1 point [-]

the average LWer can predict with high confidence that JoshuaZ will choose one of their top 5 charities.

Sure, but they're still unlikely to vote up a bullshit post.

Having read JoshuaZ's previous contributions to the conversation, and having read the challenge, I was pretty much intending to vote up his response as long as it wasn't completely inane (it had already crossed the threshold when I read it, so I didn't bother).

I wonder if any of the (presumably three) people who did upvote it before it crossed the threshold had similar thought processes...?

Comment author: cupholder 14 June 2010 11:23:08PM 0 points [-]

I wonder if any of the (presumably three) people who did upvote it before it crossed the threshold had similar thought processes...?

I'm one of the people who upvoted it, and I think I had a similar thought process. I wasn't movitated by a belief that JoshuaZ would choose a charity I liked, though. I just read his post and thought his attempted definition was a good try, and (more importantly) that it was an interesting clarification that would provoke good discussion.