Squark comments on Open Thread: March 4 - 10 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Coscott 04 March 2014 03:55AM

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Comment author: Squark 07 March 2014 12:13:49AM 2 points [-]

I don't understand why people care so much about Karma, especially effects they know are coming from a small number (1?) of serial downvoters.

Comment author: itaibn0 07 March 2014 12:41:02PM 0 points [-]

Let me be more direct: Yes, it's not such a big deal.

Comment author: itaibn0 07 March 2014 12:33:02AM *  0 points [-]

For me it was just a response to the abstract "someone is being wronged", and I did not think about how great the stakes were when I did this. In addition, I'm experimenting with a new idea which may have possible objections, and "it's not that important anyways" as you indicate is one of them.