Larks comments on How to Fix Science - Less Wrong

50 Post author: lukeprog 07 March 2012 02:51AM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 March 2012 11:52:15AM -2 points [-]

Why? By any reasonable definition, it is fact. We shouldn't step away from essentially proven facts just because some people make political controversies out of them. In fact these are the examples we should be bringing up more, if we want to be rational when it's harder, not just rational when it's easy.

Comment author: Larks 15 March 2012 02:24:54PM 3 points [-]

if we want to be rational when it's harder, not just rational when it's easy.

and we can read LW articles while standing on our heads to make it even harder!

I general, it does not seem like a good idea to make your ideas artificially hard to understand.