wedrifid comments on How about testing our ideas? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 16 September 2012 08:10:59AM *  3 points [-]

This post must be down voted because of author not content since I don't find anything wrong with the latter.

No. I don't know the author but downvoted the naive understanding of progress implied with "ran out of puff after Einstein". It was cheap cynicism signalling that seemed misleading to me (especially since the earlier parts of the comment came across as authorative.)

Comment author: [deleted] 16 September 2012 08:23:57AM 2 points [-]

Thank you for explaining this.

Comment author: Desrtopa 16 September 2012 01:48:40PM 3 points [-]

I also downvoted, and I actually considered not doing so because it was so far above the usual standards of what I've come to expect from sam0345, but I decided that if it were written by somebody else, I would have downvoted, for pretty much the same reasons wedrifid gave.