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

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 18 May 2011 11:15:51AM 7 points [-]

Yes, they're pretty softcore by LessWrongian standards but places like this are where advanced rationalists are recruited from, so if someone is making a sincere effort in the direction of Traditional Rationality, it's worthwhile trying to avoid offending them when they make probability-theoretic errors.

(As an extreme example, a few weeks idly checking out RationalWiki led me to the quote at the top of this page and only a few months after that I was at SIAI.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 12 May 2012 09:11:16PM 1 point [-]

I only just noticed this. Good Lord. (I put that quote there, so you're my fault.)