Eugine_Nier comments on Not insane. Unsane. - Less Wrong

12 Post author: loup-vaillant 17 February 2012 11:43PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 February 2012 03:27:52AM *  4 points [-]

You want a word that means "these person's ideas are so wrong that they shouldn't even be discussed in polite company".

Look at this from the outside view, you want a word that's essentially a rationalist equivalent to "infidel" without the connotations "infidel" has of making its user seem scarily dogmatic.