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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 February 2013 02:31:56AM 6 points [-]

There ought to be something intelligent and abstract to say about filtering mechanism conflicts, but I can't think of what it might be right now. E.g., a mention once came up of os-tans on HN, someone said "What's an os-tan?", I posted a link to a page of OS-tans, and then replies complained that the page was NSFW and needed a warning. I was like "What? All those os-tans are totally safe for work, I checked". Turns out there was a big ol' pornographic ad at the top of the page which my eyes had probably literally skipped over, as in just never saccaded there.

That Courage Wolf video probably has a pretty different impact depending on whether or not you automatically skip over and mostly don't even notice all the bad parts.

And in another ten years a naked person walking down the street will be invisible.

Comment author: lukeprog 19 February 2013 10:52:54PM 8 points [-]

Turns out there was a big ol' pornographic ad at the top of the page which my eyes had probably literally skipped over

Sometimes I fail to include NSFW tags because I use an adblocker, so NSFW ads don't appear for me.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 19 February 2013 03:27:12AM 2 points [-]

And in another ten years a naked person walking down the street will be invisible.

Huh?! I wonder if this is another instance of Eliezer not realizing how atypical the bay area is.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 February 2013 04:07:50AM 2 points [-]

Science fiction reference-- I think it's to Kurland's The Unicorn Girl.