Elo comments on Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Elo 27 June 2015 11:06:43PM *  0 points [-]

If that's a related quote you should say so; if that's a meta comment about my comment you should also say so.

Downvoted this: I could give you an equally pretty sounding quote about walking blindly forward or repeating teachers passwords but I am too lazy to find a link. This is the Internet; don't be cryptic, be obvious, be helpful and be clear.

How about this description:

The author Russ Roberts is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution well known for communicating economics to non-economists. He applied in-group biases to the real world perspectives of two parties on the budget stimulus package in america. He comments on how both sides can be perceiving that the same thing both worked and didn't work.

And the most important part of sharing a link:

I am sharing this because... I think he is right and everyone should read what he has to say//I think he is wrong and here is why...

Comment author: Xerographica 28 June 2015 06:33:45AM -1 points [-]