Will_Newsome comments on Rationality tip: Predict your comment karma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 September 2011 05:51:38AM 0 points [-]

(Suggstion: Vote on likelihood ratios, not posterior probabilities. (I find it unlikely that this post deserves to be downvoted on its own merits. The continued political downvoting saddens me.))

Comment author: Metus 14 September 2011 03:19:06PM 1 point [-]

I am new to LessWrong, so can you please explain why you should be downvoted?

Comment author: orthonormal 14 September 2011 09:56:57PM 5 points [-]

Will Newsome thinks he's a rationalist hipster. See this comment thread if you really want to know.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 September 2011 11:25:40PM *  3 points [-]

Vladimir_Nesov correctly interpreted me in that thread. Everybody else just had a lot of fun taking turns talking about how I am bad at communication (bad at trying to communicate), as if that was something I didn't already have a detailed model of.

Comment author: pedanterrific 14 September 2011 11:50:52PM 1 point [-]

Well, to be fair he kind of is a rationalist hipster, for certain values of 'hipster'.

(No offense, Will.)