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It rubs you the wrong way that I start with an example that clearly illustrates the point I'm trying to make?

lazyasciiart 8y ago
Yes. If I want to make the point that everything on Hacker News is complete rubbish, and I pick out a recent post about "alien lizards invented facebook to enable mind control", that looks like an example that really clearly illustrates my point, right? But it's not, because it's not a good example of the actual content of hacker news.
stcredzero 8y ago
It rubs you the wrong way that I start with an example that clearly illustrates the point I'm trying to make? Since it's such a clear strawman, it doesn't clearly illustrate the point you're trying to make for those readers who can see through it. It's common sense to exclude childhood as irrelevant to dating experience. It's common sense, that people will be more active in dating during certain phases in their life. The whole point of the strawman, is that it appears to support a point by only weakly representing the counterpoint. A fairer analysis has been posted several times in other comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=19360311 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=19360311
- robertwiblin 8y ago
  As I've said to others it highlights one weakness with the model - that it will always say a longer possible search is better because it raises your odds to success and the model features no cost for searching. When you add a cost to delay the appropriate time to spend exploring drops massively.
  - stcredzero 8y ago
    it highlights one weakness with the model By applying the strategy in an unintelligent way which seems designed to make the model fail. it will always say a longer possible search is better because it raises your odds to success and the model features no cost for searching That's kind of the whole point of this tradeoff and of the analogies used with it. That there is a cost for searching and not "finding."

Yes. If I want to make the point that everything on Hacker News is complete rubbish, and I pick out a recent post about "alien lizards invented facebook to enable mind control", that looks like an example that really clearly illustrates my point, right? But it's not, because it's not a good example of the actual content of hacker news.

stcredzero 8y ago

It rubs you the wrong way that I start with an example that clearly illustrates the point I'm trying to make? Since it's such a clear strawman, it doesn't clearly illustrate the point you're trying to make for those readers who can see through it. It's common sense to exclude childhood as irrelevant to dating experience. It's common sense, that people will be more active in dating during certain phases in their life. The whole point of the strawman, is that it appears to support a point by only weakly representing the counterpoint. A fairer analysis has been posted several times in other comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=19360311 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=19360311

robertwiblin 8y ago
As I've said to others it highlights one weakness with the model - that it will always say a longer possible search is better because it raises your odds to success and the model features no cost for searching. When you add a cost to delay the appropriate time to spend exploring drops massively.
- stcredzero 8y ago
  it highlights one weakness with the model By applying the strategy in an unintelligent way which seems designed to make the model fail. it will always say a longer possible search is better because it raises your odds to success and the model features no cost for searching That's kind of the whole point of this tradeoff and of the analogies used with it. That there is a cost for searching and not "finding."