Risto_Saarelma comments on Newtonmas Meetup, 12/25/2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 25 December 2010 11:24:04AM 0 points [-]

And you went and conflated ethics, which you were talking about, with epistemics, which the site is mostly about, both of which "wrong" incidentally applies to in everyday speech. Which happens to be the sort of thing people are especially twitchy about here.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 25 December 2010 03:07:07PM *  0 points [-]

I'm sorry, but I did no such thing. My comment could have been restated as follows:

What ought one to think of a community that seeks to be overcome bias and yet succumbs to such obvious forms of anthropocentric bias?

See what I said in reply to wedrifid for further clarification.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 December 2010 11:32:13PM *  0 points [-]

I'd still downvote you for making a controversial and inflammatory statement in a way that presumes it's obvious without providing any evidence.