Error comments on How to offend a rationalist (who hasn't thought about it yet): a life lesson - Less Wrong

9 Post author: mszegedy 06 February 2013 07:22AM

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Comment author: Error 08 February 2013 02:28:52PM 5 points [-]

This comment causes me unpleasant cognitive dissonance. I read the second party's statement as meaning something like "no, logical rigor is out of place in this subject, and that's how it should be." And I find that attitude, if not offensive, at least incredibly irritating and wrongheaded.

And yet I recognize that your argument has merit and I may need to update. I state this not so much because I have something useful to say for or against it, but to force it out of my head so I can't pretend the conflict isn't there.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 08 February 2013 07:08:21PM 1 point [-]

I read the second party's statement as meaning something like "no, logical rigor is out of place in this subject, and that's how it should be."

See this comment for a steelmanning of what I think the friend's point of view is.