Nick_Tarleton comments on Our Phyg Is Not Exclusive Enough - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 17 April 2012 03:38:31AM 4 points [-]

Meaning does not excuse impact, and on some level you appear to still be making excuses. If you're going to reason about impressions (I'm not saying that you should, it's very easy to go too far in worrying about sounding respectable), you should probably fully compartmentalize (ha!) whether a conclusion a normal person might reach is false.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 April 2012 10:18:11AM 0 points [-]

I'm not making excuses.

Talking about one aspect of a problem does not imply that other aspects of the problem are not important. But honestly, that debate is stale and appears to have had little impact on the author. So what's the point in rehashing all of that?