SilasBarta comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 04 April 2011 03:34:46PM 4 points [-]

When it comes to learning on the internet (including, as wedrifid mentions, reading Graham's essays, but excluding e.g. porn and celebrity gossip), I'd say It's a lot less harmful and risky than being drunk, and probably helpful in a lot of ways. It's certainly not making huge strides toward accomplishing your life's goals, but it seems like a stretch to compare it to getting drunk.

Comment author: cousin_it 04 April 2011 04:03:09PM *  6 points [-]

I think PG's analogy referred to addictiveness, not harmfulness.

Comment author: childofbaud 04 April 2011 08:35:37PM 3 points [-]

Is it bad if you're addicted to good things?

Comment author: taryneast 05 April 2011 08:59:10AM *  4 points [-]

If it's getting in the way of other stuff you want/need to do, then yes. Otherwise probably no.

Comment author: cousin_it 04 April 2011 08:41:17PM 2 points [-]

No, but in this case the addiction makes you worse off because surfing the net is worse than doing productive work.