MichaelVassar comments on Science - Idealistic Versus Signaling - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 09 December 2009 06:31:05PM 3 points [-]

Debate does work under certain circumstances. The pretense that those circumstances aren't necessary, by those who wish to seize the status of reasoned debate, dilutes what outsiders see until it looks like debate doesn't work.