komponisto comments on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 13 September 2012 06:10:49AM 6 points [-]

I don't think "preventing the current thread from happening again" is anywhere near an important enough goal to justify heritable karma penalties -- let alone retroactive ones.

Comment author: ciphergoth 13 September 2012 06:21:01AM 6 points [-]

I've not seen retroactive penalties proposed anywhere; the current system warns you when you start if a penalty applies for making a comment, presumably that wouldn't change.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 September 2012 01:54:40AM 0 points [-]

Yep. Nobody was proposing retroactive.