Bugmaster comments on Don't Get Offended - LessWrong

32 Post author: katydee 07 March 2013 02:11AM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 07 March 2013 07:24:58PM 2 points [-]

In my own entirely anecdotal experience, some crying people react very negatively to #2; a fewer number react negatively to #1. This procedure is far from universal.

Comment author: jooyous 07 March 2013 09:24:52PM *  0 points [-]

I wish there was some way to prove that my procedure is optimal under uncertainty and we should just train everyone to use it, but I might be drastically overestimating the number of articulate-while-crying people or knowing-what-they-need-while-crying people or expect-you-to-read-mind-while-crying people. =P

Maybe someone could build a model and then we can take a huge poll to fill in the model numbers.