wedrifid comments on Decision Theory FAQ - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 15 March 2013 01:47:14PM 1 point [-]

What this site does or does not care about does not add up to right and wrong

What this site does or does not care about is rather significantly informative regarding whether or not something belongs on the site---especially when thatundesired thing is so actively and shamelessly equivocated with that which is the primary subject matter of the site. The subject matter of your comments is not the 'rationality' that this site talks about and, similarly, the reasoning used in your comments does not conform to rational thinking as described on lesswrong. It does not belong here, it belongs in a Philosophy department somewhere where hopefully it does no particular harm and is used to produce papers only encountered by others in similar departments.

The way I am using "rational" has a history that goes back centuries.

I don't believe you (in fact, you don't even use the word consistently). But let's assume for the remainder of the comment that this claim is true.

This site has introduced a relatively novel definition, and therefore has the burden of defending it.

Neither this site nor any particular participant need accept any such burden. They have the option of simply opposing muddled or misleading contributions in the same way that they would oppose adds for "p3ni$ 3nL@rgm3nt". (Personally I consider it considerably worse than that spam in as much as it is at least more obvious on first glance that spam doesn't belong here.)