NancyLebovitz comments on Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dmytry 22 May 2011 01:27:13PM *  1 point [-]

I think making it depend to the birthday is also rational. Otherwise there is more possibility of some sort of resource congestion if horoscope compels every user (rather than 1/12th of the users) to do same thing. This is not a big concern in the Internet with few thousands users spread all over the world - but imagine a small village, where there's just 1 horoscope, and it tells everyone to think about failure modes of their plans - they are all farmers, they all think what they're gonna do if crops fail, they all try to buy same equipment at same day.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 22 May 2011 02:33:37PM 2 points [-]

I hope that there will eventually be patterns of some people getting more benefit from some horoscopes than others, so that some information will fall out about mental habits and personalities.