Multiheaded comments on Consequentialist Formal Systems - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 May 2012 08:38PM

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Comment author: Multiheaded 09 May 2012 04:17:00AM *  -1 points [-]

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

(Now why the hell would that be downvoted?)

Comment author: CuSithBell 09 May 2012 06:01:06AM 1 point [-]

(Now why the hell would that be downvoted?)

It doesn't seem to address the comment it is a response to?

Comment author: Multiheaded 09 May 2012 01:26:16PM *  -1 points [-]

Um, it does: I was ironically comparing Newton's sentiment to the frustration seemingly expressed in shminux's comment?

Comment author: CuSithBell 09 May 2012 03:53:19PM 2 points [-]

I didn't vote on your comments, but I assume the person (?) who did thought you should have given an example of the kind shminux wanted instead.