Morendil comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong

31 Post author: komponisto 09 December 2009 04:25AM

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Comment author: Morendil 10 December 2009 08:14:29PM 15 points [-]

Perhaps this is after all a litmus test for rationality, in a different sense than (I suspect) komponisto intended.

I mean, here I am looking at a 100+ comments thread, discussing a highly charged issue, and everyone is thoughtful, respectful, and willing to take others' points into account.

That is... extremely unusual.

Comment author: gwern 10 December 2009 10:30:39PM 8 points [-]

Few of us have had much investment or interest in the case before, I'm thinking. Presented as an abstract almost-philosophical problem, with a common framework of epistemology, it's much easier to discuss well.