army1987 comments on Checklist of Rationality Habits - Less Wrong

117 Post author: AnnaSalamon 07 November 2012 09:19PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 13 November 2012 06:27:49AM *  0 points [-]

Another one: You see a way to do things that in theory might work better that what everyone else is doing, but in practice no one seems to use. Do you investigate it and consider exploiting it?

Example: You're trying to get karma on reddit. You notice that http://www.reddit.com/r/randomization/ has almost a million subscribers but no new submissions in the past two months. Do you think "hm, that's weird" and keep looking for a subreddit to submit your link in, or do you think "oh wow, karma feast!"

Comment author: Transfuturist 21 September 2013 07:39:36PM 1 point [-]

Third option: turn the subreddit's style off (if you have RES), or subscribe yourself and see what happens to the number to discover what they've been doing.

Comment author: Larks 12 April 2015 05:16:11AM 0 points [-]

http://www.reddit.com/r/randomization/ has almost a million subscribers but no new submissions in the past two months.

Apparently that subreddit just lies about how many subscribers it has