Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Should I believe what the SIAI claims? - Less Wrong

23 Post author: XiXiDu 12 August 2010 02:33PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 August 2010 10:18:13PM 6 points [-]

Well, I could try to rephrase as "Below the standards of promoted, highly rated LW posts", i.e., below the standards of the LW corpus, but what I actually meant there (though indeed I failed to say it) was "the standards I hold myself to when writing posts on LW", i.e., what XiXiDu is trying to compare to Charles Stross.

Comment author: CronoDAS 14 August 2010 09:35:40AM *  2 points [-]

Below the standards of promoted, highly rated LW posts

seems to be different than

our smart friends and favorite SF writers are not remotely close to the rationality standards of Less Wrong

because we do a lot of armchair speculating in comment threads about things on which the "rational" position to take is far from clear - and, furthermore, just because someone isn't trying to present a rational argument for their position at any given moment doesn't mean that they can't.