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Zubon comments on Political topics attract participants inclined to use the norms of mainstream political debate, risking a tipping point to lower quality discussion - Less Wrong Discussion

37 Post author: emr 26 March 2015 12:14AM

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Comment author: Zubon 27 March 2015 01:30:13PM 7 points [-]

I'm not sure if it says more about me or the context I'm used to seeing here at Less Wrong, but when I read, "Shall we just tell the Greeks to go jump into the Aegean sea?" I thought "Iliad" before "ongoing economic crisis." If that order ever flips, we may have gotten too much into current events and lost our endearing weirdness and classicism.

Comment author: Lumifer 27 March 2015 02:42:49PM 2 points [-]

when I read, "Shall we just tell the Greeks to go jump into the Aegean sea?" I thought "Iliad".

:-D Yep. That's a good thing.