matt comments on Rationality quotes: June 2010 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Morendil 01 June 2010 06:07PM

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Comment author: matt 03 June 2010 12:36:49PM 18 points [-]

Silas, you're making strong arguments but mixing in emotion that makes it harder for your interlocutor to change their mind.

Comment author: SilasBarta 03 June 2010 03:59:16PM 4 points [-]

Understood; I've edited the GP comment to be more diplomatic and improve the formatting. Let me know what you think.

However, regarding the other comment, my question "Are you serious?" is an honest question. I don't see how cousin_it could misinterpret the question as "What is X?" when it's clearly asking "How do you know what X is?" So I don't see why his answer of "X is ..." got modded up.