komponisto comments on A philosophy professor elicits college students' reactions to Less Wrong - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 21 September 2011 03:04:48AM *  8 points [-]

No, but it is a closed list and the public materials are, as you noted, apparently sanitized. What is the reasonable inference?

I have no idea. It just looks like bizarre crypticness to me; like there's some inside joke that I'm not in on.

If it is a closed list, then why is it being posted to LW? And especially, why is it being posted without acknowledgment of the fact that the source was a closed list?

Conspicuous secrecy is rude.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 21 September 2011 03:22:11AM 1 point [-]

The fact that the list itself is closed is not a good argument by itself not to post the link given that the link is to a public and easily accessible website. However, it probably would have made sense of it had included the request not to the post to the blog.

Comment author: komponisto 21 September 2011 03:29:37AM *  4 points [-]

The post should have included an explanation of the lack of information (e.g. "the instructor posted this to a private mailing list that I subscribe to, and does not wish himself or his institution to be identified" -- if this is in fact the case; otherwise, the information should have been included).