Prismattic comments on Making History Available - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 12 November 2011 10:08:23PM *  1 point [-]

and insider-signaling

This is actually something I want to take care to avoid in this particular context. I do, after all, openly rate Weird Al as aesthetically superior to the greatest classical masterpieces. Also: cheap wine is usually better wine, caviar tastes terrible, those hats look stupid, peacock's tails are largely pointless and I've never read Wittgenstein or that book with the whale in it.

(There are other groups that I would of course take efforts to signal insiderhood.)

Comment author: Prismattic 13 November 2011 12:40:02AM 0 points [-]

But, but the whale book is surely a classic!