wedrifid comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 January 2011 08:14:56AM *  2 points [-]

Any sufficiently advanced karma-whoring is indistinguishable from a useful comment. I personally don't care for karma, but I maintain that I regret the post for wasting people's time.

Upvoted for indistinguishable insight. Downvoted for the overused and inaccurate "don't care about karma" signal. Downvoted 7 other comments by you at random because you don't care and I'm in an arbitrary mood. :)

I also downvoted Normal's comment because the "karma-whoring" comment was glaringly inaccurate.

Comment author: oliverbeatson 03 January 2011 03:41:52PM 0 points [-]

I care about antagonising people and wasting their time, so naturally I pay attention to karma as it's a reliable signal ;) But of itself it's pretty useless; given the chance, I wouldn't choose to press a button that bestowed 1000 magical karma points on my account.

Comment author: Alicorn 03 January 2011 03:49:02PM 5 points [-]

wouldn't choose to press a button that bestowed 1000 magical karma points

You'd pass up the chance to study ontologically fundamental mental entities?!

Comment author: oliverbeatson 03 January 2011 04:50:33PM 2 points [-]

That is the price of such an intense desire to signal one's apathy toward karma! :P My loss, I suppose!

P.S. Luminosity + Radiance rules! </fanboy>