TheOtherDave comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 January 2012 08:25:28PM 2 points [-]

Well, couching things in terms of status-signaling is conventional around here. But, sure, there are probably better candidates. Do you have anything in particular in mind you think should have been nominated instead?

Comment author: Multiheaded 03 January 2012 08:38:13PM 0 points [-]

Nothing in particular, no, just skepticism. A (brief, completely uneducated) outside view of the field especially suggests that elegant-sounding theories of the mind are likely to fail bad at prediction sooner or later.