CronoDAS comments on 2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 06 December 2012 10:41PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 07 December 2012 02:53:32AM 6 points [-]

Really?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 December 2012 01:35:02AM 22 points [-]

Yes.

Comment author: CronoDAS 08 December 2012 11:01:43PM 8 points [-]

Wow.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 December 2012 03:05:49AM *  26 points [-]

"No, she wouldn't say anything to me about Lucius afterwards, except to stay away from him. So during the Incident at the Potions Shop, while Professor McGonagall was busy yelling at the shopkeeper and trying to get everything under control, I grabbed one of the customers and asked them about Lucius."

Draco's eyes were wide again. "Did you really?"

Harry gave Draco a puzzled look. "If I lied the first time, I'm not going to tell you the truth just because you ask twice."

Comment author: CronoDAS 08 December 2012 11:14:56PM 16 points [-]

Nice quote.

"Really?" is more polite to say than "I find that hard to believe, can you provide confirming evidence" or "[citation needed]", though. Also, sometimes people actually will say "No, I was kidding" if you ask them.

Comment author: Kindly 08 December 2012 11:53:06PM 5 points [-]

Also, sometimes people actually will say "No, I was kidding" if you ask them.

Or "Oops, I accidentally typed an extra zero. Twice."

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 December 2012 07:40:20AM 0 points [-]

That is unlikely owing to the placement of the commas.

Comment author: Kindly 09 December 2012 03:23:17PM 2 points [-]

No, that just makes it worse, because 20,00$ could be referring to donating 20 dollars.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 December 2012 09:28:03PM *  2 points [-]

Ah, right. I had forgotten that some people use commas where I would expect periods. Adding an extra zero twice is still somewhat unlikely, though. My current hypotheses about the distribution of LW users make it more plausible that the tail of high income can afford fairly large donations.

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Comment author: Alicorn 08 December 2012 01:59:29AM 8 points [-]

There is a largely innocuous conversation below this comment which has been banned in its entirety. Who did this? Why?

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 December 2012 12:43:04PM 13 points [-]

In general, I'd say that people's desire to be anonymous should be respected unless there's a very good reason to override it, and solving a puzzle is not a very good reason.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 December 2012 11:50:52AM 0 points [-]

Anyway, he pretty much admitted who he is now.