Morendil comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Morendil 24 March 2010 04:47:08PM 3 points [-]

I am happy to discuss things here.

I'm not. This style of argumentation is ineffective and wasteful of people's time, and I'm unhappy, bordering on angry, that it has gone on that long. I prefer to let this emotion find a productive outlet, namely a top-level post to put a name to the pattern I prefer, so as to encourage more useful discussions in future.

Unfortunately cupholder was rather evasive in our discussion

Claim. Unsupported by evidence.

That's his fault not mine.

Blame. Irrelevant to truth-seeking.