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

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

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 04:53:13AM 1 point [-]

I agree that it's annoying when people are mocked for saying something they didn't say. But Nesov was actually making an implicit argument here, not just having fun: he was pointing out that timtyler's analogies tend to be surface-level and insubstantive. The kind of thing that I've seen on Pharyngula are instead unjustified ad hominem attacks that don't shed any light on possible flaws in the poster's arguments. That said, I think Nesov's comment was flirting with the line.