Jack comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong
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Dawkins is a very high-quality thinker, as his scientific writings reveal. The fact that he has also published "elementary" rationalist material in no way takes away from this.
He's way, way far above the level represented by the participants in his namesake forum.
(I'd give even odds that EY could persuade him to sign up for cryonics in an hour or less.)
Bloggingheads are exactly 60 minutes.
To be fair, I'd expect it to be a lot harder with an audience.
Exactly what I was thinking.
I was thinking: "Bloggingheads implies the participants believe they are within a few degrees of status of each other". It'd definitely be one worth a viewing or two!