Stuart_Armstrong comments on Debunking komponisto on Amanda Knox (long) - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: rolf_nelson 02 February 2010 04:40AM

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Comment author: komponisto 03 February 2010 05:21:45PM -1 points [-]

As someone who has no interest in the case (I haven't made any comment related to the case, nor read any of the discussions), judging from just the posts, I think Rolf's main mistake is that he forgot that one needs to be much more careful when arguing against a majority belief.

Wei, I hope you will excuse me for being a little blunt here, but it's pretty clear that both you and Anna Salamon have assigned far too much weight to the fact that Rolf Nelson is a big-shot SIAI donor who says the right words and hangs out with the right people, while (to you) I'm just some guy on LW with an obscure pseudonym. I mean, seriously, if two major posts on LW by a 1000+ karma user that attracted ~700 comments did less to get you interested in the topic than Rolf's negative-scoring rant...well, that's something you might want to think about.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 03 February 2010 05:26:09PM 2 points [-]

You have no evidence of Wei's thoughts on the matter.

Comment author: komponisto 03 February 2010 05:31:37PM 1 point [-]

Downvoted. The comment I replied to contains Wei's thoughts on the matter.