Constant2 comments on OB Status Update - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 January 2009 09:34AM

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Comment author: Constant2 27 January 2009 09:43:44PM -1 points [-]

Seconding the expectation of a "useless clusterf--k."

The hope is that the shared biases will be ones that the site owner considers valuable and useful

The obvious way to do that is for the site owner to make some users more equal than others.

the Hacker News website seems to be doing fine.

Security through obscurity. Last I checked, it confirmed my impression, gathered from Digg and Reddit, that as long as the site remains sufficiently unpopular, it will not deteriorate.