orthonormal comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong

147 Post author: Yvain 13 September 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 02 October 2010 08:30:48PM 5 points [-]

Tim, do you think that nuclear-disarmament organizations were inherently flawed from the start because their aim was to prevent a catastrophic global nuclear war? Would you hold their claims to a much higher standard than the claims of organizations that looked to help smaller numbers of people here and now?

I recognize that there are relevant differences, but merely pattern-matching an organization's conclusion about the scope of their problem, without addressing the quality of their intermediate reasoning, isn't sufficient reason to discount their rationality.