shminux comments on Arguments against the Orthogonality Thesis - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: JonatasMueller 10 March 2013 02:13AM

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Comment author: shminux 10 March 2013 05:29:02AM 1 point [-]

Sorry, Carl, I was going by the post's content, since I don't know the OP personally. I trust your judgement of his skills in general, maybe you can teach him to write better and assess the quality of the output.

Comment author: CarlShulman 10 March 2013 05:40:03AM 7 points [-]

I was giving that background about the specific case in support of the general principle of avoiding making insulting statements, both to avoid poisoning the discourse, and because errors given offense that is rarely outweighed by any pros.

Comment author: shminux 11 March 2013 08:45:00PM -1 points [-]

I am not sure what in the statement you quoted you found insulting. That I inferred that he wasn't well-versed in the material, given the poor quality of the post in question, instead of politely asking if he had, in fact, read the relevant literature?