Cyan comments on Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 10 April 2010 09:21:11PM *  2 points [-]

It seems that 'dark side' gets used in two somewhat different ways here.

Dark Side Epistemology is something you do to yourself; the Dark Arts are methods you use on other people (or they use 'em on you). Unfortunately, the names are similar enough and human memory is buggy enough that it's a name collision for most people.

Comment author: ata 10 April 2010 09:25:46PM 2 points [-]

That's why it was renamed anti-epistemology.

Comment author: Cyan 10 April 2010 09:28:35PM *  1 point [-]

Alas, the damage is done. Too bad we can't just update a DNS server-equivalent and have the change propagate to everybody's brains.

Comment author: ata 10 April 2010 09:32:16PM 0 points [-]

Indeed, though I wonder why the older posts on it weren't updated (or at least had notes on the naming added to them).