CronoDAS comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong

147 Post author: Yvain 13 September 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: simplicio 14 September 2010 02:07:19AM *  32 points [-]

Implementing your suggestion is easy. Just keep going "meta" until your opinions become stupid, then set meta = meta - 1.

There's an art to knowing when;

Never try to guess.

Toast until it smokes & then

20 seconds less.

Comment author: CronoDAS 14 September 2010 02:42:41AM 42 points [-]

I'm reminded of some "advice" I read about making money in the stock market:

Buy a stock, wait until it goes up, and then sell it. If it doesn't go up, then don't have bought it.

Comment author: Clippy 15 September 2010 05:07:43PM 8 points [-]

That strategy requires an impossible action in the case that the stock does not go up.

Comment author: homunq 20 May 2012 01:57:54PM *  6 points [-]

That comment made me smile. I didn't upvote it, but I just hid a paperclip, making the moment when I'll have to buy another box that much closer.

edit: actually, I wrote the above before I actually did it. But when I looked in the place I expected to find paperclips, and didn't find any, making the probability that I'll buy paperclips in the near future somewhat higher. So it's all good.

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