Morendil comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

10 Post author: CronoDAS 16 February 2010 08:29AM

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Comment author: Morendil 16 February 2010 06:14:36PM *  15 points [-]

This conversation has been hacked.

The parent comment points to an article presenting a hypothesis. The reply flatly drops an assertion which will predictably derail conversation away from any discussion of the article.

If you're going to make a comment like that, and if you prefix it with something along the lines of "The hypothesis in the article seems superfluous to me; men in all cultures treat women like children because...", and you point to sources for this claim, then I would confidently predict no downvotes will result.

(ETA: well, in this case the downvote is mine, which makes prediction a little too easy - but the point stands.)

Comment author: bgrah449 16 February 2010 06:17:44PM 1 point [-]

Thanks! I won't be able to do the work required on this right now, but will later tonight.

Comment author: CronoDAS 17 February 2010 03:39:10AM 0 points [-]

Wow, that's a great link.