paper-machine comments on Why I Am Not a Rationalist, or, why several of my friends warned me that this is a cult - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 July 2014 12:42:53PM 0 points [-]

a term that should be useful but is overwhelmingly used only by those upset at their personal toe being stepped on ("critiquing me? You're doing skepticism wrong!"), to the point where it's a pretty useful crank detector.

Well, isn't that a self-evidently dangerous heuristic. ("Critiquing me? You're just doing the calling-me-a-pseudoskeptic crank behavior!")