NancyLebovitz comments on [LINK] Why I'm not on the Rationalist Masterlist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 January 2014 02:25:33PM 4 points [-]

High-confidence predictions about the medium-to-far-future (especially ones that suggest sending money)

I can't see this as part of the problem. You don't have to discuss it, but I'm bewildered that it's on the list.

Comment author: jaibot 08 January 2014 02:41:35PM 5 points [-]

I should probably have generalized this to "community-accepted norms that trigger absurdity heuristic alarms in the general population".

Again, there should be a place to discuss that, but it shouldn't be the same place that's trying to raise the sanity waterline.