army1987 comments on The Level Above Mine - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 January 2013 10:52:46AM *  0 points [-]

I wish more people on this forum would explain why they were down voting something, that on the face of it, seems reasonable.

Me too. (Not sure that a link to that xkcd comic in this context “on the face of it, seems reasonable”, though.)

Comment author: insufferablejake 20 January 2013 01:23:42PM 0 points [-]

Does a link to a comic have a place in this forum? I don't know the answer to that, perhaps it is not. That said, my comment was more a reaction to other down votes, this just happened to be the straw I was commenting on.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 January 2013 01:33:28PM 0 points [-]

(I meant “context” not “comment” BTW -- fixed that.)

Does a link to a comic have a place in this forum?

Yes. I've posted such links myself. But that particular one seems to me to have very dubious topicality.

Comment author: insufferablejake 20 January 2013 01:39:38PM 0 points [-]

Really? I think, after staring at it for some time, that the comic is making fun of the thinking that maths is a young man's game.