rysade comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

113 Post author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:50PM

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Comment author: taw 22 January 2012 12:09:31PM 3 points [-]

Less Wrong is entertainment, if it surprises you that it didn't change your life, your expectations were very irrational.

Like all entertainment, sometimes it has some positive (or negative) side effects, but they're not the real reason people are here.

Comment author: lessdazed 22 January 2012 11:12:27PM 8 points [-]

your expectations were very irrational.

It is a bad sign that you labeled her expectations with that symbol alone.

Less Wrong is entertainment

This looks like the beginning of an argument about whether or not LW is "really entertainment." If it is really entertainment, then that doesn't prevent it from being useful in any other way, unless its being entertainment precludes it from being those things by definition, which would of course be irrelevant.

Saying that LW is entertainment is somewhat relevant as an evolutionary debunking argument, to explain its popularity as being from something other than usefulness, which all else equal makes it less likely LW is useful. But I don't like how the comment was phrased, nor is that argument terribly strong.

the real reason

Almost all causes have multiple effects, almost all effects have multiple causes.

Your comment is far below the standard for you. Standing alone, it implies a broken ideology and worldview, and looks like many useless internet comments. Only from your other comments is it clear that this one is an aberration. A bad one, one that looks as if it were written by someone else.

Everyone has to have a worst comment, my worst is probably worse. But please rethink this issue, or express your thoughts better.