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Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013) · 2013-06-27T23:17:31.510Z · LW · GW

aw, he still thinks ad hominem is cute

you should respect norm-violating lesswrong posters more

especially when someone around you goes all "yeah, thank you :D"

Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013) · 2013-06-27T23:06:18.729Z · LW · GW
Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013) · 2013-06-27T20:03:42.642Z · LW · GW

spellcheck is so easy you have no excuse

bad grammar is less painful than doesn't-even-care-to-spellcheck

Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013) · 2013-06-27T20:01:55.721Z · LW · GW

idiot

did you read the part about being consistent in my own ways? i'm not criticizing him for eschewing standard rules!

oh, and if you're all "you screwed up by joining two independent clauses with a conjunction and no comma"? that was fucking deliberate (the relevant consistency is "for speechlike writing, i use punctuation to approximate the structure of speech")

Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013) · 2013-06-27T16:33:28.283Z · LW · GW

you use english painfully poorly . i may be one to eschew standard rules, but i am quite consistent in my own ways and i do know them

specifically, get a spellcheck and be consistent

Comment by sparkles on Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting · 2013-05-06T10:13:33.507Z · LW · GW

Eesh, there are certainly people like those two categories, but it's usually used as rather of a false dichotomy. http://www.succeedsocially.com/introversion

Comment by sparkles on Bead Jar Guesses · 2013-04-21T10:06:39.929Z · LW · GW

What if you know jar A is 80% red and jar B is 0% red, and you know you're looking at one of them, and your confidence that it's A is 0.625? Then you have probability 0.5 that a bead chosen from the jar in front of you is red, but will update upwards with probability 0.625 if you're given the information of which jar you're looking at.

Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) · 2013-03-24T18:29:11.928Z · LW · GW
Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) · 2013-03-24T18:28:51.348Z · LW · GW
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Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) · 2013-03-24T18:27:42.240Z · LW · GW
Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) · 2013-03-24T18:26:24.776Z · LW · GW
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Comment by sparkles on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) · 2013-03-24T18:25:21.662Z · LW · GW
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Comment by sparkles on We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think · 2013-02-17T19:12:07.686Z · LW · GW

If they say one thing and intend to do another, sure - but if they actually update? That may be bad PR, but I don't think it's undemocratic.