wedrifid comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: gregconen 18 March 2010 04:52:33AM 4 points [-]

I see my joke fell flat.

In the world at large, sanity is valued much less than it is here at lesswrong. Absurd as it sounds, many people would value righteous indignation above rational debate, or even above positive results.

Comment author: wedrifid 18 March 2010 05:02:39AM *  6 points [-]

I see my joke fell flat.

See the recent discussion on jokes with Rain. The joke implication missed.

Absurd as it sounds, many people would value righteous indignation above rational debate, or even above positive results.

I almost wish that did sound absurd.