wedrifid comments on Fundamental Doubts - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 July 2008 05:21AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 July 2012 07:31:08PM 0 points [-]

Your replies here have been excellent and I would love to see similar comments in a thread about QM or physics. In this case, however, you are rewarding "sniping" behavior by giving the sniper a soapbox from which to shout about his context-irrelevant pet issue. That isn't a desirable result for me.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 July 2012 07:43:40PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, that's fair. It's always a bit of a judgment call when to shape behavior vs when to extinguish it, but I suspect that were I not involved in the thread myself I would agree unreservedly that the thread was counterproductive. Point taken; tapping out.