Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Should I believe what the SIAI claims? - Less Wrong
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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.
seems to be different than
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.