NancyLebovitz comments on The True Rejection Challenge - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Alicorn 27 June 2011 07:18AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 June 2011 07:18:39AM 4 points [-]

This may not have been as good advice as it appears. I posted it because I was annoyed at the suggestion of a Roomba for someone who was very broke, but the result of the suggestion was information that it's possible to borrow a Roomba for one day for free.

There may be a general principle to be found, but I don't know what it is.

Comment author: MixedNuts 29 June 2011 07:41:02AM 0 points [-]

"If many people are giving advice, and your advice is flawed, give it anyway; other people may correct the flaws."?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 June 2011 07:45:27AM 2 points [-]

The thing is, we want to limit pointlessly annoying advice, and the larger the volume of advice, the heavier the burden of noise,.

Perhaps something like "is there a way to get access to whatever?" is a good format.