Is it a LessWrongian faux pas to comment only to agree with someone? Here's the context:
That's the kind of person that goes on to join LW and tell you. There are also people who read a sequence post or two because they followed a link from somewhere, weren't shocked at all, maybe learned something, and left. In fact I'd expect they're the vast majority.
I was going to say that I agree and that I had not considered my observation as an effect of survivorship bias.
I guess I thought it might be useful to explicitly relate what he said to a bias. Maybe that's just stating the obvious here? Maybe I should do it anyway because it might help someone?
I'd also like to know about this in less specific contexts.
This thread is for asking any questions that might seem obvious, tangential, silly or what-have-you. Don't be shy, everyone has holes in their knowledge, though the fewer and the smaller we can make them, the better.
Please be respectful of other people's admitting ignorance and don't mock them for it, as they're doing a noble thing.
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