Cyan comments on Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hwc 24 April 2011 01:30:17AM 7 points [-]

I'm not certain that that book made a good argument for that position. It was after all, fiction.

Is there a serious non-fiction treatment of the question?

Comment author: Cyan 24 April 2011 01:42:32AM 1 point [-]

It was after all, fiction.

A fair point. Still, it blew my fragile little mind the first time I read it (this being prior to EY's sequences, which IIRC treat the point somewhere).