orthonormal comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 24 March 2012 04:17:12PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: Incorrect 24 March 2012 07:01:33PM 3 points [-]

Sorry, I was joking. I thought I was being ridiculous enough for it to be obvious.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 24 March 2012 09:12:27PM *  3 points [-]

'Twas completely obvious to me. I mean seriously, "light of Bayes".

Comment author: orthonormal 24 March 2012 07:05:04PM 3 points [-]

I should have remembered that you've been around for a while, but bear in mind that the joke is just the sort of Straw Vulcan reasoning that some new people think Less Wrong obviously must subscribe to.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 April 2012 04:48:17PM 1 point [-]

Poe's law applies!