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

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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.