shminux comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 04 April 2013 08:59:58PM 0 points [-]

You may well be right, it's hard to tell. I don't see an easy way of finding out short of people replying like you have. I assumed that there enough of those who would react to make the effect visible, and I don't see how someone agreeing with wedrifid's assessment would go back and upvote my original comment, so even a partial effect could be visible. But anyway, this is not important enough to continue discussing, I think. Tapping out.

Comment author: VCavallo 04 April 2013 09:16:52PM 0 points [-]

I completely agree with what you are saying and also tap out, even though it may be redundant. Let us kill this line of comments together.

Comment author: Randy_M 05 April 2013 12:51:27AM -2 points [-]

If you both tap out, then anyone who steps into the discussion wins by default!

Comment author: wedrifid 06 April 2013 10:14:55AM *  1 point [-]

If you both tap out, then anyone who steps into the discussion wins by default!

In many such cases it may be better to say that if both tap out then everybody wins by default!

Comment author: Randy_M 08 April 2013 07:12:58PM 1 point [-]

-3 karma, apparently.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 April 2013 06:24:02PM 1 point [-]

In discussions where everyone tapping out is superior to the available alternatives, I'm more inclined to refer to the result as "minimizing loss" than "winning".

Comment author: Kawoomba 06 April 2013 06:44:37PM 1 point [-]

Well to your credit you don't see LW as a zero sum game.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 April 2013 03:34:43AM 1 point [-]

What does he win?