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chaosmage comments on Open Thread, May 19 - 25, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: chaosmage 23 May 2014 06:29:40PM 1 point [-]

Write a subtly but powerfully persuasive narrative about how you've long been planning to become a teacher, and rate essays like this one, because obviously that is the job that ultimately decides what kind of minds will be in charge in the next generation. Include a mention of the off topic problem, and claim that the "official" topic of your essay is merely an element in a more important and more real topic: this situation, happening right now, of a real and complex relationship between the writer and rater that will, in a sense, continue for the rest of both people's lives, even if they never meet again.

I'd rate that a 6 anyway.