wedrifid comments on Open Thread, October 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 18 October 2012 10:52:28AM 5 points [-]

I tell them, "Ah, but if you take one cloud and another cloud, and add them together, you still get one cloud, so 1 + 1 = 1."

Neither claim is "silly bullshit"

I'm comfortable calling that claim silly bullshit. In fact, I can't think of a better word for it. It is exactly the kind of thing the phrase "silly bullshit" is there to describe.