PhilGoetz comments on Reductionist research strategies and their biases - LessWrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 February 2015 02:03:39AM 1 point [-]

Ah. "I wrote about a month ago" = "I <wrote about> a month ago", not "I wrote <about a month ago>".

A wrong response is worth something, but I wouldn't want to vote it up, since that would be read as agreement.

Comment author: dxu 16 February 2015 02:10:34AM 0 points [-]

Would downvoting imply disagreement, then?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 February 2015 02:31:42AM 0 points [-]

I think an upvote suggests agreement with the content rather than gratefulness for it. If someone has a wrong opinion, but people are interested in why, and he explains it, and they all upvote it out of gratitude, he might interpret that as agreement.

If a downvote implies something other than the opposite of what an upvote implies, it becomes difficult to interpret votes.