Is xkcd "Think Logically" talking about this site?

summerstay

I think we could apply the lessons, anyway, but Munroe might have our community in mind specifically. The alt-text refers to emotional biases. I'm just curious if others got the same impression.

http://xkcd.com/1112/

I think we could apply the lessons, anyway, but Munroe might have our community in mind specifically. The alt-text refers to emotional biases. I'm just curious if others got the same impression.

http://xkcd.com/1112/

I don't think this deserves its own top level discussion post and I suspect most of the downvotes are for this reason. Maybe use the open thread next time?

I downvoted because one of the chiefly repeated themes of the sequences and LW is that rationality is about winning, not about following your preconceptions about what logic means to your defeat, nor about making excuses.

It's insulting and rather ignorant that summerstay associated LW with the type of person Munroe was mocking. That type of person is pretty much the opposite of what LW is about.

9Alejandro114y

I agree that links to comics should better go in the open thread, but this explanation for the downvotes seems incorrect--a search for "xkcd" and SMBC" shows many posts consisting of links to comics, most of them upvoted. This one was downvoted because the suggestion that the comic references LW was deemed wrong. And I think the community's reaction was rather too harsh--it was a honest mistake by the poster, and while I can understand someone downvoting it when it had zero or few downvotes, I cannot understand someone piling on after it had been already heavily downvoted and taking it to its present value of -15, a karma score I associate with trolls, spam, personal abuse or political rants, not a honest mistake.

5summerstay14y

Thanks, I'll try that.

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