conchis comments on The First Koan: Drinking the Hot Iron Ball - Less Wrong

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Comment author: conchis 11 May 2009 08:08:15AM *  1 point [-]

'Productivity' must be considered relative to my utility function

Well, no. It could equally well be considered relative to mine. As it happens, I was guessing (perhaps wrongly) at an approximate community utility function. Based on previous evidence, this seemed to have a negative term for potentially inflammatory language that is unnecessary to making the commenter's substantive point.