RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 14 June 2010 08:24:22AM *  2 points [-]

Ok, OB certainly isn't the sort of word salad that Stove is attacking, so that wasn't a good comparison. But there does seem to me to be something systematically wrong with OB. There is the man-with-a-hammer thing, but I don't have a problem with people having their hobbyhorses, I know I have some of my own. I'm more put off by the way that speculations get tacitly upgraded to background assumptions, the join-the-dots use of evidence, and all those "X is Y" titles.