HonoreDB comments on Are You a Paralyzed Subordinate Monkey? - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 March 2011 09:12PM

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Comment author: HonoreDB 03 March 2011 01:46:05AM *  3 points [-]

The posting could be paraphrased as

"We generally say we spend too much time doing nothing because we don't have enough Hufflepuff in us. But in a Kitty Genovese situation, where there's an immediate need to act and a crowd of people watching, it's the Gryffindors who leap into motion while the Hufflepuffs do nothing. Maybe this generalizes."

Of course, it can take a Slytherin to notice these things.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 March 2011 02:09:41AM *  3 points [-]

Of course, it can take a Slytherin to notice these things.

A Ravenclaw will often notice too... just far too long after the fact to be useful in practice. :)

It is definitely Slytherin thinking that prompts one to harness this knowledge to useful practical effect. :)