wedrifid comments on Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge - Less Wrong
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After adapting to, and talking to people about at least 10 different idea packages(*), not including this one I finally noticed how dislike is not actually a statement about the idea package itself, but about its perceived strangeness. I got negative and even hostile reactions for each of them! So I assume people do not mentally process everything and then come up with a well reasoned debunk. But they more simply just run a diff(self.current_idea_set,new_idea_set) and if it is to far out reply in the negative.
Peeps hate on everything they don't already know.
(*) being vegetarian, being atheist, standard skepticism which includes a few applied topics like homeopathy and astrology, economics, some instantiations of liberty/libertarian ideas and more
[Edit: \_ as recommended in the comment below]
Need to escape the underscores.
diff(self.current_idea_set,new_idea_set)