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NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 August 2015 02:42:06AM 3 points [-]

As I mentioned before, this is a technical problem that should have a technical solution.

The relevant political question is how do we get the ability to do something about the code base of LW.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 28 August 2015 03:26:24AM 0 points [-]

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an efficient way to get information about karma voting patterns.

Comment author: gjm 28 August 2015 09:35:18AM 0 points [-]

An inefficient way would do. But maybe "shockingly inefficient" is as good as it gets. The Reddit database architecture (which IIRC LW uses) is ... unusual.