buybuydandavis comments on When considering incentives, consider the incentives of all parties - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 31 May 2016 02:59:16PM *  4 points [-]

they encourage a lazy style of reading

Laziness is a virtue :-P

There are a great many things available for me to read and I would prefer to figure out whether I want to read a particular piece before finishing it. There are way too many idiots who managed to figure out how a keyboard works.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 01 June 2016 11:31:12PM 1 point [-]

Winner.

Yep. Motivate the reader early that reading the article will be worthwhile.

There are way too many idiots who managed to figure out how a keyboard works.

I think I'm going to be using that one someday.