Douglas_Knight comments on Go Forth and Create the Art! - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 April 2009 01:37AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 24 April 2009 01:34:12AM *  1 point [-]

Could you elaborate? It's not obvious, except in the sentence with Heidegger, that you disagree at all. "Fraud" is a bit harsh, but saying that his claim to have a new way of thinking was a pitiful jump off a cliff is not to say that "every word he says is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" Maybe the image of jumping off a cliff is too vivid. I take it mean having reached a position where you can convince yourself of anything, but that doesn't mean that you'll use this new tool to actually convince yourself of everything.

No discussion of Hegel is complete without posters.

I certainly believe that many people will be mislead by Michael Vassar's comment because they don't notice the difference between "very many" and "most."