wedrifid comments on Amanda Knox: post mortem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 31 October 2011 01:23:00AM *  4 points [-]

I don't mind so much that it seems to be just a normal prayer with some replaced words, rather than being something good in its own right, though I think this would offend other LWers.

It doesn't offend me, and I don't anticipate that it would offend many other LWers. So I'm going to test this with a poll. If you were NOT offended by changing a Christian prayer to be about Bayes, upvote this comment.

EDIT: This isn't actually what eridu was talking about.

Comment author: wedrifid 31 October 2011 01:47:51AM *  3 points [-]

Not offended but I do think it is rather lame. It did make me downvote and mentally dissociate from the post. More "ewww" than "How dare you!".

Comment author: gwern 31 October 2011 03:48:25AM *  0 points [-]

Was it really that lame? Man, now I'm wondering whether the Fate/Stay Night bit of http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z9/1001_predictionbook_nights/ turned off a bunch of readers who simply haven't mentioned it.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 November 2011 04:01:30PM -1 points [-]

I really liked that, because I think it captured a good part of the essence of tsuyoku naritai. I don't think the Bayes-prayer did.

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