Annoyance comments on A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies - Less Wrong

113 Post author: Yvain 13 May 2009 10:51PM

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Comment author: MrHen 15 May 2009 05:55:42PM 1 point [-]

My downvote was because I consider this sentence to be noise and inflammatory:

The fact that philosophy hasn't adopted such a model strongly suggests that it's not concerned with truth.

... And this sentence is anecdotal and coming from what I judge to be a biased position:

There are people who can do good philosophy - contrary to thomblake's assertion, I've found that they're virtually never people called 'philosophers'. They're usually scientists.

I downvoted but did not comment because any direct response in the lines of argument seem likely to delve into semantics on the definitions of philosopher, philosophy, scientist, and science. Also, on a more personal note, I have yet to get any meaningful value from a conversation with you. For whatever reason, my fault or yours, it is not worth my time.

Comment author: Annoyance 16 May 2009 02:02:55AM 1 point [-]

My downvote was because I consider this sentence to be noise and inflammatory:

'Inflammatory' I could understand, although I submit that simple truth assertions ought not to be evaluated by looking at their social acceptability.

But calling it noise is just silly.

For whatever reason, my fault or yours, it is not worth my time.

Then stop replying to me, please. And voting on my posts as well.