lessdazed comments on $100 off for Less Wrong: Singularity Summit 2011 on Oct 15 - 16 in New York - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 25 September 2011 06:21:58AM 6 points [-]

Conspicuously absent from the post is any mention of the actual ticket price. It's an exercise in framing. Humans aren't best described as having an objective preference for $485 instead of a ticket to the conference or vice versa. If the post had been a reminder of an old $485 ticket price, or announced the price as having risen from $385 or whatever to $485, it would have been less effective.

Comment author: shokwave 25 September 2011 07:03:24AM *  1 point [-]

Sure, but that's obviously not the problem for CronoDAS's family members. Their problem is that it's a big luxury purchase, not the equivalent of a nice meal out that is easier to justify.

My apologies for scoring points by making it look like you don't know what "$100 off" means, by the way.