orthonormal comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: orthonormal 22 March 2010 06:01:52AM 11 points [-]

The real test for whether or not somebody is a "cheap credit" skeptic will necessarily involve inflammatory issues, it seems to me.

Wow, yeah. This suggests another Umeshism to me:

If you haven't horrified or offended anyone you care about, you're not a genuine skeptic.

(It goes without saying that the inverse of this statement is false.)