Advertisements can offer useful things. The free CDs given out by AOL can be erased and used to store data. Less Wrong is not a place to get “generous invitations”, it’s a place to read information and arguments to do with rationality. An invitation to a black tie dinner is a thoughtful gesture, but asking “What the heck is this doing on Less Wrong”? is an appropriate response to such a gesture.
The free CDs given out by AOL can be erased and used to store data.
I don’t think this is true. It’s cheaper and more reliable to stamp a few million CD-ROMs from a master than it is to get each of them spinning, fire a laser at them, and then make them stop spinning.
Advertisements can offer useful things. The free CDs given out by AOL can be erased and used to store data. Less Wrong is not a place to get “generous invitations”, it’s a place to read information and arguments to do with rationality. An invitation to a black tie dinner is a thoughtful gesture, but asking “What the heck is this doing on Less Wrong”? is an appropriate response to such a gesture.
I don’t think this is true. It’s cheaper and more reliable to stamp a few million CD-ROMs from a master than it is to get each of them spinning, fire a laser at them, and then make them stop spinning.
Me neither.