This post is an ad and very obviously so. Now, maybe LessWrong wants to give hits to 80,000 hours and bump their Google Pagerank, and maybe it doesn't. But I have a feeling if it were advertising penis pills instead of 80,000 hours, you wouldn't be complaining that paper-machine provided insufficient evidence. In case you still doubt, I'll lay out how I noticed it was an Ad.
Maybe you think 80,000 hours is worth having advertising for. That's fine, maybe it is. But if so, please claim that instead of trying to imply their advertising isn't advertising.
I'm sorry, but I disagree that the post is obviously an ad. Since it is not obviously an ad, I believe you should have provided accompanying evidence that it was when writing your original comment. Yet I'm disappointed to see that the reaction to my own comment, which stated that this evidence was lacking, has been overwhelmingly negative.
...As of this writing, Benjamin_Todd currently has 2 posts and 6 karma. 1 post is this thread, another is in the 80,000 hours link thread someone else put up. Eg, his only presence on this LessWrong is promoting 80,000 h
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