simplicio comments on Something's Wrong - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simplicio 09 September 2010 01:21:39AM 0 points [-]

In my experience, criticism in the wild is the art of finding and repeating another thinker's reasoning to re-attack a clearly wrong idea again without adding anything new to human thought or attempting to do something tangible to improve things.

Yup, there is definitely that aspect to things, alas.

Though I would submit that even such unoriginal criticism may be justified, given an important rhetorical objective.