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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, October 27 - 31, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 29 October 2013 05:38:46PM 2 points [-]

Consider your incentives. Actual (non-imaginary) incentives in your current life.

What are the incentives for maintaining a blog? What do you get (again, actually, not supposedly) when you make a post? What are the disincentives? (e.g. will a negative comment spoil your day?) Is there a specific goal you're trying to reach? Is posting to your blog a step on the path to the goal?

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 29 October 2013 05:55:54PM 0 points [-]

Are you requesting answers for my specific case, or just providing me with advice?

(As an observation, which isn't meant to be a hostile response to your comment, people seem very keen to offer advice on LW, even when none has been requested.)

Comment author: Lumifer 29 October 2013 06:44:02PM 1 point [-]

Advice, I guess, in the sense that I think these are the questions you'd be interested in knowing the answers to (for yourself, not for posting here).