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handoflixue comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong Discussion

56 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 March 2013 04:33AM

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Comment author: handoflixue 08 March 2013 01:34:27AM 3 points [-]

Downvoted for being deep/punchy instead of practical.

Comment author: jklsemicolon 08 March 2013 02:18:13AM 1 point [-]

It is neither deep (enigmatic or inferentially distant) nor punchy (counterintuitive or contradicting received wisdom). If anything it's too obvious. (By contrast, if I said "Be evil", now that would be deep/punchy.)

It was meant as a companion to this.