gjm comments on Rationalists don't care about the future - Less Wrong

3 Post author: PhilGoetz 15 May 2011 07:48AM

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Comment author: gjm 15 May 2011 11:38:12AM *  14 points [-]

Downvoted for (1) being an extraordinarily laborious way of saying "decaying exponential times modest-degree polynomial is rapidly decaying", (2) only doing the laborious calculations and not mentioning why the result was pretty obvious from the outset, (3) purporting to list ways around the problem (if it is one) and not so much as mentioning "don't discount exponentially", (4) conflating "rationalist" with "exponentially discounting expected-utility maximizer", and most of all (5) the horrible, horrible I-know-I'm-going-to-be-downvoted-for-this-and-you're-all-so-stupid sympathy-fishing.

[EDITED to fix a typo: I'd numbered my points 1,2,3,5,5. Oops.]

Comment author: luminosity 15 May 2011 11:11:00PM 4 points [-]

I would have downvoted it for 5 alone, if I had enough karma to.

Comment author: wedrifid 18 May 2011 06:50:26PM 3 points [-]

I would have downvoted it for 5 alone, if I had enough karma to.

Unless the reference is obsolete we can make 4 downvotes per karma point. If so you must be really laying down the quality control. Bravo!