ciphergoth comments on What Curiosity Looks Like - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 06 January 2012 09:28PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 10 January 2012 12:20:59PM 10 points [-]

FWIW I linked to this though my Twitter feed and got a very negative reaction from my friends, though the reasons they give for disliking it are pretty varied; they said things like

  • it's so arrogant!
  • It's absolutist - not everyone will have time to study these things
  • but what is "truth" really?
  • what about my-favourite-discipline? (Physics in one case)

One person has promised to write up what they felt in a blog post, which I look forward to reading.

Comment author: dbaupp 21 January 2012 12:44:32PM 0 points [-]

Has this blog post eventuated?

Comment author: ciphergoth 21 January 2012 01:47:15PM 3 points [-]

They wrote a private version which I discussed with them; they're working on a second version for public sharing now. I found their argument about the ways in which it's inaccurate and bad PR fairly convincing; I now think I made an error propagating this post.