wedrifid comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 07 December 2010 04:25PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 December 2010 02:25:45PM *  4 points [-]

You can't assume a bottom line and then rationalize your way towards it faster.

Not implied by grandparent.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 December 2010 02:38:59PM 0 points [-]

Likely not, this phrase was given as an example of hypothesis that I can see and that's probably not right. I can't find a reasonable hypothesis yet.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 December 2010 07:34:38PM *  0 points [-]

Comment on downvoting of the parent: In this comment, I explained why I wrote what I wrote in the grandparent comment. How should I interpret the downvotes? Discouragement of explaining one's actions? (Probably not!) A signal that I shouldn't have made that statement in the grandparent the way I have? (But then the grandparent should've been downvoted, and this comment possibly upvoted for clarification.) Punishment for inferred lying about my movites? (If that's how you read me, please say so, I never lie about things like this, I can make errors though and I'd like to understand them.)