wedrifid comments on Open Thread: November 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 18 November 2009 02:51:23AM 1 point [-]

You seem willing to come back and make about any random comment in an effort to have the last word and that is what I am willing to give to you.

My 'last word' was here. It is an amicable hat tip and expansion on a reasonable perspective that you provide. How much FAI thinking sounds like a "Rapture of the Nerds". It also acknowledges our difference in perspective. While we both imagine evolutionary selection pressures as a 'force', you see it as one to be embraced and defined by while I see it as one that must be mastered or else.

We're not going to come closer to agreement than that because we have a fundamentally different moral philosophy which gives us different perspectives on the whole field.

Comment author: StefanPernar 18 November 2009 04:44:50AM 0 points [-]

My apologies for failing to see that - did not mean to be antagonizing - just trying to be honest and forthright about my state of mind :-)

Comment author: wedrifid 18 November 2009 05:24:48AM *  0 points [-]

I can empathise. I have often found myself in situations in which I am attempting discourse with someone who appears to me at least to be incapable or unwilling to understand what I am saying. It is particularly frustrating when the other is supporting the position more favoured by the tribe in question and they can gain support while needing far less rigour and coherency.