wedrifid comments on LW Biology 101 Introduction: Constraining Anticipation - Less Wrong

50 Post author: virtualAdept 25 May 2011 12:32AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 27 May 2011 10:12:24AM 2 points [-]

As for whether it's appropriate for LW... well, since I have a fairly good idea of what I'm going to write on the subject in the future, I think it is, because I intend to keep it targeted and relevant to issues the community has interest in - offering either another angle from which to consider them, or more background information from which to evaluate them, or ideally both. As I've said before, I've no desire to write a textbook, and there's plenty of other places on the internet we could go if we wanted to read the equivalent of one.

To me it seems sufficiently relevant for a front page post. Just not a promoted front page post. :)

Comment author: virtualAdept 27 May 2011 12:58:01PM 3 points [-]

I agree. I didn't actually expect it to get promoted, since it doesn't fit the pattern of things I've seen on the very front. I'll show how new I am here and ask, though - Eliezer's comment read like he had been presented with some expectation that this be promoted. Is that because posts that get upvoted this far typically (or always) are?

Since I didn't ask, or state that I thought it should be, it seemed a bit out-of-the-blue, which did then and is still causing me to try to figure out whether his objection was only to the idea of promotion, or if he objected to promotion because he thought it shouldn't be here at all.

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