Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Think Like a Supervillain - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 08:34AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 12:59:05AM *  13 points [-]

This post is in Main and not Discussion so I can get some clarification on what belongs in Main and what belongs in Discussion, and also because of what looks like a demand for more non-meta posts in Main. I'd be happy to move it to Discussion if people think this is too short or doesn't have enough citations or something to be in Main.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 20 February 2013 06:13:55AM 12 points [-]

I approve of this post being in Main and I approve of your accommodation to the appearance of that demand and I approve of your testing what might be but I hope are not the boundaries of what people want to see in Main.

Comment author: Bugmaster 20 February 2013 01:22:28AM 22 points [-]

I would expect some more "meat" from a Main post; for example, some hard empirical data that points to the effectiveness of thinking without internal censors -- assuming that anyone had ever studied this issue, of course.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 01:52:11AM *  9 points [-]

Fair. Ordinarily I would've given examples, but given the nature of the subject...

Edit: I think this point is more important than I originally thought and have moved the post to Discussion accordingly.

Comment author: adamisom 20 February 2013 07:10:56AM 2 points [-]

Agreeing that it should have been in Discussion.