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 06:47:53AM *  3 points [-]

I don't think it's productive to think this way. Yvain wrote a great post which I currently can't find where he points out, among other things, that it's generally a bad idea for your primary reaction to an event to be a reaction to how you think it fits into an overarching narrative (e.g. "this just goes to show you can't trust those dirty Greens"). The LW community doesn't strike me as homogeneous enough that it's productive to model it using in-groupiness, cutesiness, and attached-to-actual-changiness parameters that can be inferred from current posts and that determine the value of future posts. Evaluate posts separately, and if you want to model something, model individual users. And for what it's worth, this post isn't typical of the kind of post I want to write.

Would your reaction have been substantially different if this had been posted in Discussion?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 February 2013 06:57:13AM 12 points [-]