billswift comments on Where's Your Sense of Mystery? - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Yvain 26 April 2009 12:45AM

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Comment author: billswift 26 April 2009 01:02:06AM * 2 points [-]

\5. We feel more curious about things we feel other people are trying to keep from us.

Which suggests pseudoscience and conspiracy theories may share causal roots.

EDIT: Sorry about the backspace, but when I tried writing 5 without it, the stupid software kept changing it to a 1 when I posted.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 26 April 2009 02:00:34AM * 5 points [-]

If you put the backslash between the number and period, it will not produce a list.

5. testing

I got that from this markdown page. A page like that should be added to the help.