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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 01 August 2013 12:10:40AM 5 points [-]

I use the anti-kibitzer. (This anonymises LessWrong, with the hope of reducing bias in judging posts. I think there's an option for it in Preferences.) It's great.

Comment author: Kawoomba 01 August 2013 01:12:33PM *  2 points [-]

Ok, who am I? (lol!)

Edit: The anti-kibitzer feature is quite interesting as I just noticed it's an extremely clear example of a situation in which there's a tradeoff between instrumental and epistemic rationality, and when purposefully depriving yourself of relevant information yields the preferred outcome.

Comment author: drethelin 01 August 2013 01:47:20PM 1 point [-]

Preferred for who? I think being able to judge people is useful

Comment author: Kawoomba 01 August 2013 01:53:56PM 0 points [-]

Preferred for who?

Those who enable anti-kibitzer, which has the sole functionality of hiding information.

I think being able to judge people is useful

Yea, and it'd give you trouble knowing their names (if you use anti-kibitzer), that would detract from you being able to judge.