Kaj_Sotala comments on You're Calling *Who* A Cult Leader? - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 March 2009 06:57AM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 22 March 2009 09:46:51PM 13 points [-]

Critics are parasites; they don't generally produce anything that valuable and entertaining themselves

Debunking mistaken hypotheses is just as important as coming up with new ones. Otherwise our heads would be so filled with confused theories that we could never develop the correct ones.