TimS comments on LW Women Entries- Creepiness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 29 April 2013 01:14:31AM *  -1 points [-]

I seem to see more criticism of that than support.

Right. On LW, thinking Eliezer is wrong on QM and that it matters is a clown suit belief.

There's no reason to think a belief is right just because it is a clown suit belief in a particular context.

Edit: Gwern, I think I misread you, so this post accurately states my position, but probably isn't responsive to your comment.

Comment author: atorm 29 April 2013 02:10:54AM 9 points [-]

You think that those of us who disagree with EY on QM look ridiculous to most members of LW? I think gwern was saying that criticism of EY's stance is the majority opinion on this website

Comment author: TimS 29 April 2013 02:17:49AM 4 points [-]

I think that the locally respectable position is that EY's mistakes describing QM don't matter. I think the purpose of describing QM was to articulate a position in philosophy-of-science.

Whether EY made particular errors is irrelevant to the philosophy-of-science point. And any errors in the philosophy-of-science point are probably irrelevant to raising the sanity line.

Comment author: atorm 29 April 2013 02:45:25AM 7 points [-]

Oh, well-clarified. Thank you.

I personally find EY's arrogance regarding MWI off-putting, but I suppose I stuck around the site anyway, so I don't know whether it's driving away others.

Comment author: ikrase 29 April 2013 02:10:53AM 1 point [-]

yeah. I... antipredict that EY is wrong on QM, but don't expect it to matter.