komponisto comments on NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [link] - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Kevin 06 March 2011 10:22AM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 06 March 2011 04:38:45PM 4 points [-]

I'd love to see some series of posts where someone applies LWism to such stories. LW is too much about refining rationality when the biggest problem is that people don't know how to apply it to real life problems. But since Yvain has basically bashed that idea I lost all hope that it will ever happen. He actually got 26 upvotes for it and I don't even know of a single post that shows how to apply what you can learn on LW to real life problems.

Comment author: komponisto 07 March 2011 10:35:44PM 1 point [-]

I don't even know of a single post that shows how to apply what you can learn on LW to real life problems.

As the author of one such post I have to protest this exaggeration, even while I agree that it would be nice to see more.