JoshuaZ comments on Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (My Way) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Houshalter 04 June 2010 06:03:06PM *  -2 points [-]

Bold, unjustified political claims.

What bold unjustified political claims? You do realise that every other person on this site I've met so far has some kind of extreme political view. I thought I was kind of reasonable.

Bold, unjustified claims that go against consensus.

In other words, I disagreed with you. I always look for the reasons to doubt something or believe in something else before I just "go along with it".

Bad spelling/grammar.

What's wrong with my spelling/grammar? I double check everything before I post it!

Also a Christian

You're persecuting me because of my religion!?

Whatever. I'll post again in 8 minutes I guess.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 June 2010 06:24:06PM *  4 points [-]

Bold, unjustified claims that go against consensus.

In other words, I disagreed with you. I always look for the reasons to doubt something or believe in something else before I just "go along with it".

No. In other words, you've made claims that assume statements against consensus, often without even realizing it or giving any justification when you do so. As I already explained to you, the general approach at LW has been hashed out quite a bit. Some people (such as myself) disagree with a fair bit. For example, I'm much closer to being a traditional rationalist than a Bayesian rationalist and I also assign a very low probability to a Singularity-type event. But I'm aware enough to know when I'm operating under non-consensus views so I'm careful to be explicit about what those views are and if necessary, note why I have them. I'm not the only such example. Alicorn for example (who also replied to this post) has views on morality that are a distinct minority in LW, but Alicorn is careful whenever these come up to reason carefully and make her premises explicit. Thus, the comments are far more likely to be voted up than down.

Your persecuting me because of my religion!?

Well, for the people complaining about grammar: "Your" -> "You're"

But no, you've only mentioned your religious views twice I think, and once in passing. The votes down there were I'm pretty sure because your personal religious viewpoint was utterly besides the point being made about the general LW consensus.