Desrtopa comments on Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 05 November 2011 01:15:06AM 2 points [-]

Why would anyone so disagree? If this topic isn't off-topic and mind-killing, is there any topic that is?

I would say yes. I mean, it's clearly on topic relative the main post, and if instrumental rationality is going to be one of the focuses of the site, then "on topic" for top level posts is necessarily going to be pretty broad.

As for mind-killing, there are certainly topics I think it's harder to hold a productive conversation on.

Comment author: steven0461 05 November 2011 02:00:53AM 5 points [-]

I think a comment can be off-topic even though it's on-topic relative to the main post and the main post is itself on-topic. I'm also worried that people are using too broad a definition of "instrumental rationality".