gregconen comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong
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Yes -- I have seen this so many times!
It's particularly frustrating, because encountering it feels like discovering that you've overestimated your audience at the same time that they've underestimated you.
I've noticed this too, and I long for the day when our rationality skills have advanced to the point where we can be rational and nice.
I haven't really seen 3), and EY's posts undermine 1) significantly, it seems to me.
What works for EY may not work for everyone else. For better or worse, he enjoys a special status in this community.
A status earned precisely by writing posts that people enjoy reading!
If you're suggesting that the ordinary academic/intellectual norm of only allowing high-status people to write informally, with everyone else being forced to write in soporific formal-sounding prose, is operative here, then I suggest we make every effort to nip that in the bud ASAP.
This is a blog; let's keep it that way.