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Lumifer 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

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Comment author: Lumifer 31 March 2015 02:25:57PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks for the serious answer.

perhaps you do take utility-maximizing consequentialism seriously enough

No, I do not.

entertainment value of arguing outweighs the other consequences of arguing here

...but that is a very interesting idea :-D