It seems Lucid fox has a point. LW isn’t that heavily dominated by US based users, also dosen’t it seem wise for LW users to try and avoid such uses when thinking of difficult problems of ethics or instrumental rationality?
No, but if my example is going to evoke the opposite response in 10-20% of my audience, it’s probably a bad choice :)
avoid such uses when thinking of difficult problems of ethics or instrumental rationality?
Conceeded. I was interested in gauging emotional response, though, not an intellectual “shut up and multiply”. The question is less one of math and more one of priorities, for me.
It seems Lucid fox has a point. LW isn’t that heavily dominated by US based users, also dosen’t it seem wise for LW users to try and avoid such uses when thinking of difficult problems of ethics or instrumental rationality?
No, but if my example is going to evoke the opposite response in 10-20% of my audience, it’s probably a bad choice :)
Conceeded. I was interested in gauging emotional response, though, not an intellectual “shut up and multiply”. The question is less one of math and more one of priorities, for me.