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Vaniver comments on Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: JoshuaZ 31 August 2012 01:26PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 31 August 2012 04:55:57PM 10 points [-]

But for the most part, the people who don't give money are freeloaders.

They go to Less Wrong for entertainment, or for practical advice, or for social interaction. They don't add value, and some take value away.

I think you really should separate SIAI and LW here. I'd like to think that I've added value to LW in ways that don't involve donating money to SIAI.

Comment author: palladias 31 August 2012 05:44:28PM 8 points [-]

I'll also note that it's hard to freeload on social interaction.