drethelin comments on Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2013 05:20AM

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Comment author: drethelin 24 April 2013 04:44:20PM 1 point [-]

Spite exists, and people do things out of spite. That doesn't mean punishment shouldn't exist. If you don't stop being friends with anyone ever you will be abused and used and forced to spend time with awful people.

Total karma isn't for you, it's for everyone else.

Comment author: common_law 24 April 2013 07:03:09PM *  1 point [-]

Total karma isn't for you, it's for everyone else.

Producing correlated rather than independent judgments of post quality, with the well-known cascading effects. The "system" deliberately introduces what I call belief-opinion confusion