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Comment author: multifoliaterose 26 November 2010 12:03:19AM 4 points [-]

it seems to me that for a supposedly "rationalist" community, people here seem to be far too willing to accept claims of LessWrong exceptionality based on shockingly weak evidence.

Claiming that your group is the best in the world, or among the best, is something nearly every single group in history did, and all had some anecdotal "evidence" for it. Priors are very strongly against this claim, even after including these anecdotes.

I strongly agree.

Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 28 November 2010 02:03:27PM 9 points [-]

To reply honestly to this, I think that LW is (close to) superlative in some dimensions. It's just that when people try to tell the community that there's a bunch of other more important dimensions that it sucks at, people get angry and shoot the messenger.

Comment author: komponisto 29 November 2010 04:56:15AM 2 points [-]

It's just that when people try to tell the community that there's a bunch of other more important dimensions that it sucks at, people get angry and shoot the messenger

There is however room for disagreement on just how much "more important" these "other dimensions" are.

(Not necessarily taking a position myself, mind you.)

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