TheOtherDave comments on Link Sharing Thread - April '11 - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Alexandros 11 April 2011 09:03AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 11 April 2011 02:16:29PM 8 points [-]

Oh, come on.

It's clear to me that a link with a description that lets me make even a 50%-accurate judgment, let alone a 90%-accurate judgment, of whether I'll like it is far more useful than a link with no description at all.

Do you disagree?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 11 April 2011 04:54:43PM 0 points [-]

No, obviously not, I spend a fair amount of cognitive resources every day trying to sort through online content and am partial to norms conductive to that purpose indeed.

I just interpret "knowing without following the link" as "at least 99% sure it'll be worth it".