roland comments on Privileging the Hypothesis - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 September 2009 12:40AM

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Comment author: roland 29 September 2009 06:56:55AM 2 points [-]

I think this is a great follow up to: http://lesswrong.com/lw/o3/superexponential_conceptspace_and_simple_words/ (scroll to the very end of that post)

Comment author: SilasBarta 29 September 2009 04:00:06PM 2 points [-]

Good point. Also, Yvain follows up that point with his parable that shows the hypothetical example of teaching reformed Nazis that "Untermenschen are people too", and how that's nearly as distorting as Nazi ideology itself.

Wait, did I just Godwin?