wedrifid comments on Open Thread: September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 September 2011 08:12:47AM *  1 point [-]

Not quite. Having the right priors about other people's likely beliefs, patience and humility are all rather important.

There are some people who I consider incredibly intelligent and who clearly understand the language that I basically expect to be replying to a straw man whenever they make a reply, all else being equal. (Not Eliezer.)

Comment author: Armok_GoB 05 September 2011 10:44:13AM 2 points [-]

Eliezer has always come of as having plenty of those as well.