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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:59:32 GMT

How often do you link to comments?

Personally, I seem to have a few instances available where I've done just that.

So now your karma depends significantly on how well you can find a Yudkowskian citation for whatever you're arguing.

I'm quite sick of this rhetorical trick, of conflating Eliezer with the Sequences in order to justify slinging the word 'cult' around. LessWrong is built on the bedrock of the Sequences. To the extent that we get anything done here, it's because we don't get bogged down in rehashing any of the million problems that the Sequences solved or dissolved. Honestly, this website would be one giant morass of interconnected arguments over definitions without these posts alone. The Sequences are valuable and should influence, guide, and control discussion on LessWrong. It's one of the ways we have of being less wrong! That the Sequences were written by Eliezer Yudkowsky is incidental to their importance on this website. Stop pretending like everything he's ever written is SIAI-cult-propaganda.

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