I was kinda hoping someone would mention that interpretation of my motives. Yes, part of this certainly is that on a level I’d like to find a justification for playing MMOs a lot.
You recommend me to focus more on e.g. the poker stuff, and I am actually doing that. Sooner or later I’ll probably post about a suggestion for a Less Wrong Poker Group, but before I do, I want to develop my framework for introducing new people to poker a bit, and work on some other stuff having to do with poker.
Despite all this, I do maintain that there is a valid problem which this posting of mine addressed directly, even though it’s one of the less important problems around these parts. I don’t feel that I spent too much effort on this article (on the contrary, going ahead with my first draft might have been a mistake), or limited other people’s ability to take the most productive approaches.
Sure, that’s right—you haven’t actually stopped people from being productive. There probably is an opportunity cost, though. Perhaps people who saw a more-appropriately-focused article would have written more appropriately focused comments. Good luck with the poker group!
I was kinda hoping someone would mention that interpretation of my motives. Yes, part of this certainly is that on a level I’d like to find a justification for playing MMOs a lot.
You recommend me to focus more on e.g. the poker stuff, and I am actually doing that. Sooner or later I’ll probably post about a suggestion for a Less Wrong Poker Group, but before I do, I want to develop my framework for introducing new people to poker a bit, and work on some other stuff having to do with poker.
Despite all this, I do maintain that there is a valid problem which this posting of mine addressed directly, even though it’s one of the less important problems around these parts. I don’t feel that I spent too much effort on this article (on the contrary, going ahead with my first draft might have been a mistake), or limited other people’s ability to take the most productive approaches.
Sure, that’s right—you haven’t actually stopped people from being productive. There probably is an opportunity cost, though. Perhaps people who saw a more-appropriately-focused article would have written more appropriately focused comments. Good luck with the poker group!