hg00 comments on Celebrating All Who Are in Effective Altruism - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 20 January 2016 01:31AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 21 January 2016 06:10:42PM 3 points [-]

The purpose of market segmentation is to maximize revenue :-/

Comment author: hg00 23 January 2016 03:21:37AM -1 points [-]

It seems like a valid application to me if one takes people to be paying some kind of cost in terms of their time and money in order to receive recognition for being a good person. You would like people to be able to spend a moderate amount of time and money to receive a moderate amount of recognition, and a large amount of time and money to receive a large amount of recognition. Having terms for different levels could help with this.

Comment author: Lumifer 25 January 2016 04:51:59PM 1 point [-]

to receive recognition for being a good person

Let me rephrase it as 'I can buy the status of "a good person"'. Still fine?

Comment author: hg00 07 February 2016 06:14:23AM *  -1 points [-]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst_argument_in_the/

You're arguing by analogy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/vx/failure_by_analogy/ and trying to do guilt by association. It's an appeal to emotion, not reason.

Literally every other website on the internet will allow bad arguments like this... are you sure you don't want to hang out somewhere else? Seriously, give it some thought.

Comment author: Lumifer 07 February 2016 06:31:04AM 0 points [-]

LOL. You have to try harder :-P