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Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on LW's first job ad - Less Wrong
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If you want to be more practical and useful, then anything of or relating to real-world jobs is a large step forward.
I don't think that's what you meant to say.
If it is, I may start cross-posting want ads from Craig's List at random and expect them to be promoted.
I'm pretty certain this particular kind of job isn't on Craig's List.
Ha, you said this much better than I was going to.
And your logical fallacy is...
I disagree. He's not saying "if we allow relevant job ads, clearly we must allow irrelevant job ads." He's demonstrating that "anything of or relating to real-world jobs [is relevant to LW]" is false. It's possible that Eliezer intended "anything relating to real-world jobs whose field overlaps with the topics of LW," but I'd still disagree with him for the reasons mentioned above. Everyone here is presumably interested in the topics of LW; only a subset
and those are the only ones to whom this post is relevant. I don't object to it being posted at all, but the promotion doesn't seem appropriate, given the above.
It's a threat, not a fallacy. And if I understand LW correctly, few would notice random want-ads because they wouldn't gain enough votes to make it to the front page.
I'm pretty sure the problem is EY. He could post pictures of his cat, and they'd go all the way up. (And if he doesn't have a cat, then he should know that there are several in my neighborhood who might be happy to be adopted. And kittens! Omygosh!)
That's part of the problem, but the other half is that if he wanted to post pictures of his cat, he'd promote them.
ETA: And in this case, at least, the post is hovering around 0.
Maybe if it was a really good want ad.