NancyLebovitz 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: mwengler 08 July 2014 10:34:57AM *  2 points [-]

I thought the post lent LessWrong the appearance of a self-absorbed, naval-gazing, hero-worshiping clique. Appearances are important. LessWrong is vulnerable to this image. I was glad to see the post go.

I thought the post lent LessWrong the appearance of a site where a lively and open discussion could take place, where the "authorities" did not jealously guard their images and respectability. I was always impressed by rationalists such as Feynman who was known to his colleagues, students and faculty alike, as "Dick" because the respect one had for Feynman came from what he had to say, not who he was. Here is a picture of the wall at one of the Caltech student houses. This is an example of how non-cultists worship their heroes.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 July 2014 08:37:59PM 0 points [-]

Did you intentionally add a misspelling to the quote?

Comment author: mwengler 08 July 2014 10:45:41PM 1 point [-]

What misspelling???

I'm sorry, I'm kidding! In fact, I had put the quote in by cut and paste, I would imagine solipsist must have come back later and fixed his click to a clique. I just edited my post to fix my click to a clique as well, to see whether editing a post updates the time stamp on it. It does not.

Comment author: gwern 09 July 2014 01:08:46AM 4 points [-]

Editing a post is marked by an asterisk after the original-time.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 July 2014 01:55:31AM 1 point [-]

My apologies. That's an entirely plausible explanation which didn't occur to me.

Comment author: solipsist 09 July 2014 07:09:41PM 0 points [-]

Rule of thumb: if a paragraph contains more than twenty consecutive correctly spelt words, I did not write it.