dclayh comments on Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2009 10:49AM

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Comment author: dclayh 29 March 2009 05:15:49PM 2 points [-]

Your use of "parasitic" is also Dark: it serves no purpose other than to trigger the negative emotional associations of the word.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 01 April 2009 03:45:10AM 3 points [-]

I used the word parasitic because he gave, as his example, a specific parasitic organism.