Lumifer comments on The Importance of Sidekicks - Less Wrong

127 Post author: Swimmer963 08 January 2015 11:21PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (203)

Comments (203)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 January 2015 02:18:41AM 0 points [-]

Open source projects, especially (or maybe just most saliently for me) software projects, desperately need sidekicks.

Sidekicks or slave labour?

Comment author: dxu 23 January 2015 02:40:20AM 0 points [-]

Please define your terms.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 January 2015 03:57:00AM 0 points [-]

"Slave labour" -- labour that does what it's asked to do without needing any compensation in terms of either money or fame. Sidekicks have been defined elsewhere, but the salient issue is that they need a hero.

The point, of course, has been sharpened.

Comment author: dxu 23 January 2015 04:32:08PM 1 point [-]

What is the difference between your definition of "slave labor" and volunteer work?

Comment author: Lumifer 23 January 2015 04:41:14PM 1 point [-]

Volunteers want things :-) Slave labour shuts up and does stuff.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit