wedrifid comments on Rhetoric for the Good - Less Wrong

49 Post author: lukeprog 26 October 2011 06:52PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 25 October 2011 02:20:39PM 2 points [-]

Excuse me, but almost all writing on Less Wrong is nonfiction. Shouldn't you have simply asked for the best writing on Less Wrong?

No, not if you want to find out their best pick of the nonfiction. Since a request for the 'best' tends to return a single result it only takes one instance of fiction to completely alter the expected result, assuming that single example has any potential for popularity.

Comment author: komponisto 25 October 2011 02:45:10PM 0 points [-]

The objection is not to the category restriction, but to the connotative implication of the title that the "fiction" category is significantly populated.

Comment author: eugman 28 October 2011 01:17:26AM 0 points [-]

Personally, I see it as a fair tradeoff: one implies a falsehood in order to prime people to give better answers to a specific question.