orthonormal comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Douglas_Reay 09 September 2012 04:41AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 08 September 2012 12:59:04AM 11 points [-]

Ceteris paribus, the world where a creepy guy turns into a non-creepy guy is better than the one where the creepy guy ceases to exist. (Marginally, at least, the world needs a whole lot more well-adjusted nerds.)

So a better question is, how does a social group help and encourage creeps to become non-creeps wherever possible (without enabling creepy behavior)?

Comment author: Douglas_Reay 08 September 2012 01:19:55AM 4 points [-]

how does a social group help and encourage creeps to become non-creeps

Point them at the links in the OP.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2012 01:41:56AM *  4 points [-]

This one too (which, on a totally unrelated note, exhibits the groping-her-way-towards-Bayesianism phenomenon I have noticed -- to the point of (appearing to) incorrectly think that Schrödinger's cat is about epistemic probability).

Comment author: DanArmak 08 September 2012 07:25:08PM *  2 points [-]

Marginally, at least, the world needs a whole lot more well-adjusted nerds.

What do you mean by that? Who needs them for what purpose and as opposed to what alternative?