wedrifid comments on Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 December 2010 04:23:57PM 0 points [-]

The judgement behind 'strong paper' and 'strong critique' is important and similar judgement must be used to decide whether to reply to criticism. This is particularly the case when the critic is not acting in good faith (again, in your judgement) and has a talent for obfuscation and rhetoric.

Comment author: anonym 08 December 2010 05:03:49PM 0 points [-]

Strongly agree.

I'm not advocating anything like "always respond". I'm advocating that when people actually think it's a strong critique, they should respond rather than playing the status game of pretending they don't really think it's a strong critique by ignoring it. Additionally, even if they don't think it's a strong critique, if many other people 'whose judgment they would trust in other similar situations' do think it's a strong critique, then they should also respond.