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Eugine_Nier comments on [Link] Why don't people like markets? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 June 2012 03:17:00AM 6 points [-]

For an example, see the article linked in the original posting, and almost the whole of this thread.

Or for that matter most of the sequences.

Comment author: private_messaging 23 June 2012 12:00:56PM *  -2 points [-]

Precisely. E.g. the charity diversification disagreement I ran into here several times (even before I formed an opinion on AI stuff). I said, on several occasions, that the non-diversification result in larger rewards for finding and exploiting deficiencies in charity ranking algorithms employed, I even provided a clear example from my area of expertise of how the targets respond to aiming methods. Nobody has ever even tried to refute this argument, or even state that the effect of such is not strong enough, or something. Every single time someone just posts a reference to some fallacy which is entirely irrelevant to my argument, and asserts that it is the cause of my view, repeatedly (and that typically gets upvotes). One gets more engaging discussion simply asserting that you guys are wrong (no explanation given), than providing a well defined argument, because the argument itself doesn't make a damn difference unless it is structured in the format of 'assert a bias' game (whenever I get upvotes being contrarian, that's usually really shitty arguments following the assert a bias format rather than there is such and such mechanism format)