CellBioGuy comments on Open Thread for January 8 - 16 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 16 January 2014 03:51:22PM 2 points [-]

LW is not the real world. In the real world, arguments are always soldiers

And they're not here?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 16 January 2014 05:58:06PM 5 points [-]

Well, you tell me: have you seen examples here of people engaging each other in order to learn from each other rather than convince each other of the rightness of their views?

It's not a rhetorical question. When I first joined this site there was rather a lot of that, which was largely what pulled me in. These days it's largely displaced by various other things, and it's quite possible that a new arrival simply won't notice it amidst all the noise. So I'm asking.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 18 January 2014 09:37:05PM 3 points [-]

Oh there's plenty of people engaging to learn from each other, right alongside a major echo chamber of people pushing a very particular cluster of mythologies and ideologies. I like it here a lot for the former and enjoy watching the latter go on while its participants insist it is something else.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 18 January 2014 11:00:51PM 0 points [-]

(nods) Ah. So you're agreeing that they're not always soldiers here, you're merely asserting additionally that they are not never soldiers? Yeah, that's certainly true. Thanks for clarifying.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 19 January 2014 10:23:17PM 0 points [-]

They're also not always soldiers elsewhere.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 January 2014 12:25:37AM 0 points [-]

Yes, that's true too.

Comment author: Locaha 16 January 2014 04:42:16PM -1 points [-]

And they're not here?

Hush, you. :-)