purpleposeidon comments on LW's first job ad - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 September 2010 10:04AM

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Comment author: purpleposeidon 17 September 2010 05:01:17AM 2 points [-]

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!)

Comment author: thomblake 17 September 2010 02:04:44PM *  2 points [-]

I'm pretty sure the problem is EY. He could post pictures of his cat, and they'd go all the way up.

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.