Mulciber comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mulciber 21 April 2009 10:06:51PM 0 points [-]

Both those courses of action with dice sound like strategies to me, not meta strategies. Could you give another example of something you'd consider a meta strategy?

I think there's a larger point lurking here, which is that a good strategy should, in general, provide for gathering information so it can adapt. Do you agree?

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Comment author: Mulciber 21 April 2009 11:47:27PM *  0 points [-]

That does indeed help. Thank you.

So really, a meta strategy would be something like choosing your deck for a Magic tournament based on what types of decks you expect your opponents to use. While the non-meta strategy would be your efforts to win within a game once it's started.

Comment author: MrHen 22 April 2009 12:05:26AM 0 points [-]

Ah, crap. Was that my comment? Sorry. I keep deleting comments when it looks like no one has responded.

But, yeah, Magic has a rather intense meta-game. The reason I deleted my comment was because I realized I had no idea where the meta-strategy was in the dice example so I assumed I missed something. I could be chasing down the wrong definition.

Comment author: orthonormal 22 April 2009 04:58:43AM *  6 points [-]

Ah, crap. Was that my comment? Sorry. I keep deleting comments when it looks like no one has responded.

...and that's why you really shouldn't delete a comment unless you think it's doing great harm. You may be worrying a bit too much about what others here think about every comment you make, when it's in fact somewhat random whether anyone replies to a given comment.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 April 2009 05:25:30AM 0 points [-]

Also, I believe that deleting a comment does not dissipate any negative karma that it has already earned you.

Comment author: MrHen 22 April 2009 01:34:47PM *  1 point [-]

Also, I believe that deleting a comment does not dissipate any negative karma that it has already earned you.

This is correct.

I do not delete to avoid the karma hit, I delete to drop the number of comments in a thread. If two other people say the same thing there was no reason for me to say it.

In this case, I realized immediately after I posted the comment that I probably had not done justice to the entire thread, so I deleted it. I find the clutter annoying and if I can voluntarily take my comment out of the path I am happy to do so.

Unfortunately, this apparently does not work because two people have responded before I could delete a comment. So, deleting does not work well and now I know. Next strategy to try, just editing with a sentence saying "Ignore me"? What is the community consensus on this subject? Just leave the comment alone?

It would be neat if there was a way to just hit my own comment with -4 and get it off of people's radar.