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katydee comments on Making Fun of Things is Easy - Less Wrong Discussion

32 Post author: katydee 27 September 2013 03:10AM

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Comment author: katydee 27 September 2013 06:11:59AM *  13 points [-]

I disagree. "Bad" is a value judgement that is not optimized for maximum utility. In my opinion, there's usually little reason (signaling aside) to make fun of something rather than provide constructive criticism.

While it's certainly possible to use "bad" as a shortcut for "needs optimizing," the word "suboptimal" already means that and doesn't carry the same pejorative connotations.