Perplexed comments on Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 20 September 2010 08:55:05PM *  2 points [-]

The "sequences" posts have comment sections too - no?

There are only a few posts with disabled comments - such as this one:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/

Evidently the definition of "rationality" is not up for debate. Perhaps it is the royal "we".

Comment author: Perplexed 20 September 2010 09:03:53PM 0 points [-]

The "sequences" posts have comment sections too - no?

Yes, but I don't think the discussion was all that vigorous. Eliezer was making a full size posting every day back then. He really didn't have the time to engage commenters, even if the commenters had tried to engage him.

Evidently the definition of "rationality" is not up for debate.

Cute.

Comment author: timtyler 20 September 2010 09:17:25PM 0 points [-]

Pretty often, when a post has an obvious flaw, or attacks a straw man, that is pointed out in the comments.