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

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Comment author: gwern 18 February 2010 03:07:17AM 4 points [-]

Jaron Lanier is a fruitcake - but I figure most participants here already knew that.

They may not; it takes a while for one to figure out that he really is a fruitcake - individual columns or essays tend to sound like perfectly respectable contrarianism. I first began reading his articles in Discover and it wasn't until his 'Digital Maoism' essay that "he really is a nut!" occurred to me.