gwern comments on July 2013 Media Thread - Less Wrong

2 Post author: ArisKatsaris 01 July 2013 11:12PM

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Comment author: hesperidia 07 July 2013 09:26:37PM 0 points [-]

Is it acceptable to post a "someone else recommended this book, but I did not find it compelling because of these reasons" on the current thread instead of the thread on which the recommendation was originally made?

Comment author: gwern 07 July 2013 11:20:10PM 0 points [-]

My personal preference would be to keep the discussion in the original thread with the original recommender; but perhaps include a link to one's reply here. (eg '- I read Bar; it was the best book ever and I'm now founding a business based on it\n- I also read Foo but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as $RECOMMENDER did; see [my reply] to them for reasons why not.')