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In response to Cognito Mentoring: An advising service for intellectually curious students

Comment author: Armok_GoB 03 January 2014 04:57:46AM 3 points [-]

I am confused. Something I cannot distinguish from random advertizing is being highly upvoted, promoted to main, and lauded by everyone including Eliezer himself. What is going on here?

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In response to comment by Armok_GoB on Cognito Mentoring: An advising service for intellectually curious students

Comment author: lambdaloop 03 January 2014 08:29:16PM * 8 points [-]

I agree that at first glance, it may seem like advertising, but it is different in quite a few ways:

The service Jonah and Vipul offer is free. They are doing this for the benefit of the community, not for themselves.
Jonah and Vipul seem well qualified to actually advise people.
This is in the spirit of self-study and improvement that perpetuates Less Wrong.

Really, I see nothing wrong with offering rational advising on a site that aims to improve human rationality.