Update: I kinda regret this comment. I think when I wrote it I didn’t realize quite how popular the “Let’s figure out what Q* is!!” game is right now. It’s everywhere, nonstop.
It still annoys me as much as ever that so many people in the world are playing the “Let’s figure out what Q* is!!” game. But as a policy, I don’t ordinarily complain about extremely widespread phenomena where my complaint has no hope of changing anything. Not a good use of my time. I don’t want to be King Canute yelling at the tides. I un-downvoted. Whatever.
Update: I kinda regret this comment. I think when I wrote it I didn’t realize quite how popular the “Let’s figure out what Q* is!!” game is right now. It’s everywhere, nonstop.
It still annoys me as much as ever that so many people in the world are playing the “Let’s figure out what Q* is!!” game. But as a policy, I don’t ordinarily complain about extremely widespread phenomena where my complaint has no hope of changing anything. Not a good use of my time. I don’t want to be King Canute yelling at the tides. I un-downvoted. Whatever.