steven0461 comments on Consider giving an explanation for your deletion this time around. "Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 08 July 2014 10:43:52AM 0 points [-]

I'd still be happy to remove the EY facts post, although I've been hesitant to do so because it would affect many other people's comments and hiding things might itself be construed as sinister. (I guess your point is that it doesn't matter, but I thought I'd mention it.)

Comment author: Nornagest 08 July 2014 05:03:28PM *  3 points [-]

Removing it at this point would be counterproductive. The problem is not that this is a community that can generate halfway-tongue-in-cheek hero worship from time to time: I've seen that in literally every community I've been part of, from both sides, and it's relatively harmless. The problem is that it's perceived as taking that hero-worship too seriously, and deleting the post over PR concerns would only reinforce that impression.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 08 July 2014 01:43:17PM 2 points [-]

I liked that post. Okay, maybe not all the "facts" are equally funny, but that's how creativity works.

Also:

If there's an aspect of the whole thing that annoys me, it's that it's hard to get that innocence back, once you even start thinking about whether you're independent of someone. (...) the cached thought had been planted in my mind from reading other people arguing over whether or not (...) was a "cult"

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