Hopefully_Anonymous2 comments on Professing and Cheering - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 August 2007 07:20AM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous2 02 August 2007 11:24:10AM 0 points [-]

Eliezer, first, really great topic. I think it will help move this blog to new and fertile ground. Secondly, in this particular case, I think Cole has a very plausible theory. If this person wanted to rise above being just one person on a panel, to a person in the key diaelectical exchange with the entire room, it might have been a good strategy for them to try to bait the room by professing, to the point of mass irritation, a contrarian stance.

It would be interesting to see she would adjust strategies in a room filled with pagan scientists. If she's completely flexible in external presentation of self, and attention-maximizing, she might then claim to be a fundamentalist christian?