orthonormal comments on Outside Analysis and Blind Spots - Less Wrong

68 Post author: orthonormal 21 July 2009 01:00AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 21 July 2009 04:08:13AM 2 points [-]

I hope that unlike the "Culture Wars", the interested parties here would take the hyperbolic designation as a signal to get less rather than more confrontational in their exchange. Then again, priming still works on aspiring rationalists. What might be a better way to designate this cluster of recent arguments?

Comment author: anonym 21 July 2009 04:58:39AM 1 point [-]

If you meant it ironically, I completely missed that, and I've seen enough other references to 'war' and the like here today to think that many people here take such metaphors seriously, too seriously.