MixedNuts comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MixedNuts 02 January 2012 09:58:56PM 0 points [-]

Am I an asshole?

I'm already working on not being an asshole in general, and on not being an asshole to specific people on LW. If someone answers "yes" to that I'll work harder at being a non-asshole on LW. Or post less. Or try to do one of those for two days then forget about the whole thing.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 January 2012 11:32:43PM 0 points [-]

Am I an asshole?

You haven't stood out as someone who has been an asshole to me or anyone I didn't think deserved it in the context, those being the only cases salient enough that I could expect myself to remember.

Comment author: Prismattic 02 January 2012 10:11:19PM 0 points [-]

If you're already working on it, you're probably in the clear. Not being an a-hole is a high-effort activity for many of us; in this case I will depart from primitive consquentialism and say that effort counts for something.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 January 2012 11:33:18PM 1 point [-]

effort counts for something.

And, equivalently, signalling effectively that you are expending effort counts for something.