Hansenista 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: lavalamp 24 January 2012 03:49:48AM 20 points [-]

Downvote: save the nuclear option for a larger infraction, preferably one protested by the author and committed without remorse.

Comment author: Hansenista 25 January 2012 12:04:14AM 2 points [-]

He made this reply before Eliezer's second post. Given that fact, it seems at least more fair than it would otherwise have been.

Comment author: lavalamp 25 January 2012 02:56:40AM *  6 points [-]

The criticism was fair, but I was objecting to the scale, which Mitchell_Porter has since called a "massive overreaction". One should verify that one's complaints really are falling on deaf ears before even making a threat, let alone carrying it out. (Props to MP for (and EY) for changing their minds.)