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diegocaleiro comments on You are the average of the five people you spend most time with. - Less Wrong Discussion

-2 Post author: diegocaleiro 04 September 2013 11:02PM

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 05 September 2013 10:58:48PM 2 points [-]

Thanks, I had no idea why people were downvoting this, and you gave me a better idea. I fully agree with the osmosis problem you mention.

I wonder why Modus Ponies got 66 upvotes for saying that same thing.

Comment author: ModusPonies 06 September 2013 01:36:19PM 1 point [-]

—I started by giving the long, true version.
—When I gave the incorrect, pithy version, I labelled it as such.
—I gave a specific, non-hypothetical example.