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51 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 October 2007 05:24PM

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Comment author: g 08 October 2007 12:30:30AM 11 points [-]

Why be so pessimistic? Well, right now this minute the latest article on your blog suggests that if an eminent scientist declares that evolution is a fact then one should consider seriously that "quite possibly" he "may well" be saying it only because he's a child-molesting predator.

Whether this indicates that you're incredibly stupid, or that you simply don't care whether or not what you say is true, or that you think there's nothing wrong with slandering thousands of people in this way, or that you're living in some separate reality from the rest of us, doesn't really matter; it's already sufficient to make my personal estimate of the probability of any worthwhile interaction well below 1%. (And also to make it very difficult for me to believe that you have any sincere intention of "picking up good ideas from each other".)