thomblake comments on Criteria for Rational Political Conversation - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: woozle 26 August 2010 03:53PM

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Comment author: thomblake 26 August 2010 07:19:29PM 4 points [-]

Even references need to be motivated by textual concerns. For example, if you had a post titled "Mostly Harmless" because it talked about the people of Earth but it did not say anything related to harmlessness or lack thereof, it would not be a good title.

Comment author: woozle 26 August 2010 09:40:38PM 0 points [-]

Yes, that is quite true. However, as you can see, I was indeed discussing how to spot irrationality, potentially from quite a long way away.