PhilGoetz comments on "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 February 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 25 February 2010 10:28:24PM *  1 point [-]

If something really is silly, then saying so is a mind-freer, not a mind-killer. If we were actually having that conversation, and I said "That's silly" at the start, rather than at the end, you might accuse me of halting the conversation. This is a brief summary of a complicated position, not an argument.