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diegocaleiro comments on Open thread, September 2-8, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 03 September 2013 02:47:33PM 13 points [-]

(mild exaggeration) Has anyone else transitioned from "I only read Main posts, to I nearly only read discussion posts, to actually I'll just take a look at the open threat and people who responded to what I wrote" during their interactions with LW?

To be more specific, is there a relevant phenomenon about LW or is it just a characteristic of my psyche and history that explain my pattern of reading LW?

Comment author: diegocaleiro 03 September 2013 02:51:26PM 2 points [-]

I predict that some people will have been through the sequences, which are Main posts, but then mainly cared about discussion. I suspect it has to do with Morning Newspaper Bias - the bias of thinking that new stuff is more relevant, when actually it is just pointless to read most of the time, only scrambles your mind, and loses value very quickly.