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Comment author: komponisto 15 March 2012 08:28:50PM * 8 points [-]

Do we want to scare away people with strong weirdness filters?

The answer to this may very well turn out to be yes.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 March 2012 10:53:50PM 2 points [-]

What proportion of top people at SIAI love sf?

It's at least plausible that strong weirdness filters interfere with creativity.

On the other hand, weirdness is hard to define-- sf is a rather common sort of weirdness these days..

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 17 March 2012 05:58:52AM 1 point [-]

There is no reason to turn them off right away. The blog itself is weird enough. Maybe they will be acclimated, which would be good.

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