Jack comments on Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Getting Killed By Politics - Less Wrong

39 Post author: ChrisHallquist 26 October 2013 01:59PM

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Comment author: hyporational 28 October 2013 01:56:49AM * 0 points [-]

That's what I thought first too, but it seems to also have a political meaning.

treated-as-reliable

You mean the test can be completely unreliable, like many political litmus tests probably are?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 28 October 2013 02:25:14AM 1 point [-]

Yes, I do mean that.

Comment author: hyporational 28 October 2013 02:32:13AM 0 points [-]

What a sadly disfigured figure of speech. Chemists would disapprove :(

I wonder if there are many more like it.

Comment author: Nornagest 28 October 2013 01:59:56AM 0 points [-]

That's pretty much the same meaning; just read "person or policy" for "system", and "ideologically acceptable" for "in a given state".