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Dahlen comments on NKCDT: The Big Bang Theory - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dahlen 11 November 2012 05:34:29PM *  0 points [-]

But I haven't even watched the show! I'm not motivated to argue because I have something to defend (other than a preference for neat arguments). The point was that it just seemed too nitpicky to single out one example of media for not having enough of something you like, unless you could generalize that criticism to the whole genre, in which case there remains no alternative for people who have different preferences. And that's just not economically reasonable.

Comment author: Kindly 11 November 2012 05:50:06PM *  0 points [-]

Wait, so what's the right way to complain about something, then?

Edit: specifically, if you think that there are too many shows of type A, and not enough of type not-A.

Comment author: Dahlen 11 November 2012 06:03:18PM 0 points [-]

You look at the whole market, understand that your kind not being catered to is a problem of the market as a whole and not of individual works that do cater to other market segments (or of the entire collection of such individual works), and find other not-A-fans and see whether there are more people among them who are interested in / good at producing stuff you like.