It’s a threat, not a fallacy. And if I understand LW correctly, few would notice random want-ads because they wouldn’t gain enough votes to make it to the front page.
I’m pretty sure the problem is EY. He could post pictures of his cat, and they’d go all the way up. (And if he doesn’t have a cat, then he should know that there are several in my neighborhood who might be happy to be adopted. And kittens! Omygosh!)
it’s possible that schools aren’t doing a good job of preparing people for typical office jobs
The highschool I went to attempts to prepare students for modern jobs. I hear that the educational model (project-based learning) is spreading to other local schools.
I want bob to think he gets what he wants.
Because lame community college isn’t all that great. I hope Berkeley agrees with you. :)
I am very familiar with python, and a little bit familiar with C. (I am also a sophomore, not freshmen :P) I spent an hour looking at lisp once, but never got into it. As for Haskell, I have seen it, and it looks weird. I’ve’n’t done much real algorithmic work. I wrote a (Warning: shameful self-plug) parser for Lojban, but it only works through trial-and-error and dumb luck.
Hi. I see that the first point is free.
I am a Bay Area (California, United States) 19 year-old Computer Science student. I imagine I’ll actually be taking actual CS classes next year. I’ve been lurking about for about a month.
Require new top-level posts to use a tag that indicates which facet of LW’s interest it lies with. So each new post would have to choose on (or maybe more) of tags like “bayes”, “selfimprovement”, “philosophy”. So, if I think that Lesswrong should really dedicate itself to the study of Victory and nothing else, I might read only posts with selfimprovement tags.