MartinB comments on Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MartinB 22 January 2011 03:47:53AM 0 points [-]

best performed in communities where other people's agendas are not there to interfere with your progress.

careful you who take advice from.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 January 2011 04:10:06AM 1 point [-]

careful you who take advice from.

Obviously. But your advice in this particular instance appears, shall we say, ambiguous at best.

Comment author: MartinB 22 January 2011 04:41:20AM 2 points [-]

Ambiguious posting is matter of habit for me. In this context: I experienced both growth oriented communities. And others that punish you for looking into improvement. Or people that give bad advice for all kinds of reasons. It was difficult for me to understand that this happens and why.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 January 2011 04:45:51AM 0 points [-]

Well said.

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