John_Maxwell_IV comments on A Voting Puzzle, Some Political Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode - Less Wrong

88 Post author: ChrisHallquist 10 October 2013 02:10AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 10 October 2013 06:34:11AM 5 points [-]

Great post. Any way we could at least get a link to this from within the sequences? Sometimes I wonder if LW will discover things in the sequences that are wrong/incomplete/etc. (looks like this may be the case here), but new users won't figure this out because the sequences themselves aren't getting patched.

Comment author: Error 10 October 2013 08:34:45PM 1 point [-]

I second this suggestion if and only if Chris's argument is correct, or more correct than the post he's criticizing. If something in the Sequences turns out to be wrong it should either link to the correction or be removed from the sequence in question. Maybe with an explanation of why; errata for the Sequences, perhaps.

Comment author: Benito 11 October 2013 10:51:20AM 3 points [-]

I don't think it needs to be proven right, it simply needs to be a well written, informed critique. You don't only publish an academic critique of someone if they're definitively wrong.