Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Logical Rudeness - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 January 2010 06:48AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 January 2010 12:47:22AM 1 point [-]

Real open-mindedness or just verbal pleasantry? Can you give a concrete example of them acting on a new idea they were open to?

Comment author: byrnema 30 January 2010 12:58:34AM *  2 points [-]

... thinking about it further, I've decided I don't know them well enough. I haven't spent that much time with them.

I have an increasingly uneasy feeling about the possible value of reducing 30 people to 4 hand waving generalizations. I don't understand why I can't anticipate the anxiety until after I post the comment.