Lumifer comments on Stupid questions thread, October 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clarity 15 October 2015 06:53:51AM 1 point [-]

Is retributive downvoting on other forums, or is it just a LW thing? Do we have more retributive downvoting than other sites? Can anyone think of some relationship between rationality and vindication? I feel like if anything we should be above that and have far less...

Comment author: Lumifer 15 October 2015 03:09:04PM 1 point [-]

Can anyone think of some relationship between rationality and vindication?

Sure, it's straightforward humans-are-big-white-rats Skinnerian behaviourism. If you see behaviour you don't want, apply pain until the behaviour stops. In a less crude form you'd call it "setting up an incentive system".