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21 Post author: Wei_Dai 11 January 2013 10:47PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2013 06:52:15AM 2 points [-]

It looks like "signal" essentially means "indicate credibly", then. In that case, it seems to me like we're trying to find methods of indicating curiosity, not of signaling curiosity, because I don't think we're specifically interested in methods that a non-curious person would find difficult to fake.

Comment author: TrE 12 January 2013 08:26:29AM 3 points [-]

Then what about doing some research on the topic before answering a question and mentioning what you've found so far? That's difficult to do in a "live" talk in person, but on message boards, doesn't this constitute an unreasonable effort that a non-curious person wouldn't do?

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2013 09:26:08AM 5 points [-]

At first, I thought you were saying I should have done more research before asking my question in the first place. :D

Yes, that does indeed sound like it would be a way of signaling curiosity.

Comment author: Morendil 12 January 2013 10:20:09AM 3 points [-]

At first, I thought you were saying I should have done more research before asking my question in the first place.

In the context of this thread, that's a wonderful observation.

Comment author: TrE 12 January 2013 10:25:03AM *  0 points [-]

That pun was not intended.