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Romashka comments on General buying considerations? - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Elo 12 October 2015 05:18AM

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Comment author: Romashka 12 October 2015 06:57:52PM 0 points [-]

So? Assign zeroes to these points in some kind of score you keep when reading the list, or embrace the metaphor (can I rent or timeshare a rutabaga? That is, I have some rutabagas this week because my mom is coming to visit and she loves this mysterious vegetable, and than next week I give some rutabaga seed or whatever to the kindly farmer, or maybe just show the rutabaga to my mom and boast, in passing, of my gardening skills and then return it to the kindly farmer on the quiet side... Or, what are the rutabaga's power options and repair costs - that is, does cultivating them enrich the soil or deplete it, and how long can one grow them in the same spot, and do they get hit with weird parasites that would mess with my glorious potatoes and I will end up spending money and time trying to set things right -)

(Also, I don't feel like this is a productive discussion to have:(, since if you consider just one place where you buy rutabagas, it is strictly a subset of you considering n places, for which Elo's list totally applies.)

Comment author: Lumifer 12 October 2015 07:16:59PM 0 points [-]

or embrace the metaphor

Do note where we started :-D

I don't feel like this is a productive discussion to have

It's not particularly productive for rutabaga-buying purposes. It might be productive for thinking about what matters and what doesn't. Matching the effort to the expected change in outcome, y'know...