RichardKennaway comments on Open thread, August 12-18, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pan 12 August 2013 10:56:31PM 4 points [-]

I searched and it doesn't look like anyone has discussed this criticism of LW yet. It's rather condescending but might still be of interest to some: http://plover.net/~bonds/cultofbayes.html

Comment author: RichardKennaway 13 August 2013 12:33:47PM *  7 points [-]

Worthless ranting.

His footnote 3 is particularly telling:

I am indebted to the rationalwiki page on lesswrong for much of the information in this and subsequent sections.

In other words, this is soup of the soup.

Looking at the other articles on his site, they're all like that. I would say that this is someone who does not know how to learn.

Comment author: gwern 13 August 2013 02:57:01PM 6 points [-]

I once read a chunk of Bond's site after running into that page; after noting its many flaws (including a number of errors of fact, like claiming Bayes tried to prove God using his theorem when IIRC, that was Richard Price and he didn't use a version of Bayes theorem), I was curious what the rest was like.

I have to say, I have never read video game reviews which were quite so... politicized.