JamesAndrix comments on False Majorities - Less Wrong

35 Post author: JamesAndrix 03 February 2010 06:43PM

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Comment author: JamesAndrix 04 February 2010 04:38:39PM 1 point [-]

who say - look, there is no need to totally and completely believe every word of manuscript. Follow some practices sincerely until you feel the presence yourself

And are promptly condemned as heretics by every other faction. If there were a group that made claims that were supported by most other groups, then we might take them as real experts. But if their rationality is in dispute even among people who share their partial conclusion, then they are just another faction.