jaibot comments on [LINK] Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is now on slashdot - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: Douglas_Reay 23 June 2013 06:59AM

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Comment author: jaibot 23 June 2013 07:46:41AM 4 points [-]

Yeah, the comments on there were...not very well thought out. My intuition is that a lot of people went "Hey, this looks insane", then went back and came up with a justification other than "absurdity heuristic", and then didn't bother checking that the reason they came up with really made any sense.

Comment author: Douglas_Reay 24 June 2013 11:18:51AM 3 points [-]

Thus it being our opportunity to add comments to the thread on /. that are well thought out, and thereby improve how the subject is perceived by a not insignificant fraction of sort of people who might be easily persuaded to be interested in this topic.