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Nornagest comments on Open thread, 30 June 2014- 6 July 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nornagest 01 July 2014 08:37:06PM 0 points [-]

Preferences revealed through e.g. Wikipedia's history suggest that people put a surprisingly high value on Pokemon trivia relative to more useful but less entertaining information, at least when it comes to investing time in compiling and reading it.