Yeah, thanks, Alicorn. I’ve been “conferencing”—as we used to call it in the 80s—for a long time, and I know the problem. I actually love the up/down voting system here. I gives me some fairly fast feedback as to how I’m occurring to others. I’m primarily here to learn, and learning to communicate effectively in a new context has always brought rewards to me.
Ah, one more thing I’ll risk adding here. This is a Yudkowsky thread and discussing my posting may be seriously off-topic. I need to pay more attention to context.
LessWrong is like digression central. Someone will make a post talking about evolutionary psychology, and they’ll mention bow and arrows in an example, and then someone else will respond with a study about how bow and areas weren’t used until X date, and then a debate will happen, and then it will go meta, and then, etc.
You do write unusually long comments and it’s slightly irritating (although I have not downvoted you so far).
Yeah, thanks, Alicorn. I’ve been “conferencing”—as we used to call it in the 80s—for a long time, and I know the problem. I actually love the up/down voting system here. I gives me some fairly fast feedback as to how I’m occurring to others. I’m primarily here to learn, and learning to communicate effectively in a new context has always brought rewards to me.
Ah, one more thing I’ll risk adding here. This is a Yudkowsky thread and discussing my posting may be seriously off-topic. I need to pay more attention to context.
LessWrong is like digression central. Someone will make a post talking about evolutionary psychology, and they’ll mention bow and arrows in an example, and then someone else will respond with a study about how bow and areas weren’t used until X date, and then a debate will happen, and then it will go meta, and then, etc.