TheOtherDave comments on Open Thread: December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 25 December 2011 02:19:14AM 2 points [-]

Well, you're making sense to me, but that's perhaps due to the fact that I basically would be saying the same things if I somehow found myself in that conversation. (Which could easily happen... hell, I've gotten into that conversation on LW.)

I think you would all benefit from drop-kicking about half the terms you're using, and unpacking them instead... it seems moderately clear that you don't agree on what a p-zombie is, for example. But I would be surprised if he agreed to that.

That said, I don't think he'd agree with your summary of his position.

Does he always have such eccentric syntax?

Comment author: David_Gerard 25 December 2011 10:06:33AM *  2 points [-]

No, he doesn't. He's spent most of his life in politics and knows how to speak with fine-honed bluntness. That's why people thought his first comment was parody.

I've identified the feeling: that sinking realisation that someone you respected is a dualist.