shminux comments on Not insane. Unsane. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 18 February 2012 01:11:40AM 0 points [-]

What's wrong with "untaught"?

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 18 February 2012 03:56:02AM * -1 points [-]

If I'm untaught in regards to neurosurgery, that hardly means I'm behaving irrationally/insanely towards it.

And lots insane people are vastly taught in the subject they're insane in, e.g. religion, politics, whatever.

So, in short, what's wrong with it is that it has nothing to do with what we're talking about which is about the rational processing of information.

Comment author: shminux 18 February 2012 04:31:22AM 0 points [-]

I suspect that you missed his point:

to describe people who basically, aren't rational because they haven't been exposed to the right ideas yet

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 18 February 2012 05:13:15AM 1 point [-]

Ah, yes, I somehow missed that sentence. Retracting my previous comment, with apologies.

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