ChristianKl comments on Harper's Magazine article on LW/MIRI/CFAR and Ethereum - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Julia_Galef 12 December 2014 11:07:50PM *  17 points [-]

Perhaps this is silly of me, but the single word in the article that made me indignantly exclaim "What!?" was when he called CFAR "overhygienic."

I mean... you can call us nerdy, weird in some ways, obsessed with productivity, with some justification! But how can you take issue with our insistence [Edit: more like strong encouragement!] that people use hand sanitizer at a 4-day retreat with 40 people sharing food and close quarters?

[Edit: The author has clarified above that "overhygienic" was meant to refer to epistemic hygiene, not literal hygiene.]

Comment author: ChristianKl 13 December 2014 02:17:01PM 4 points [-]

But how can you take issue with our insistence [Edit: more like strong encouragement!] that people use hand sanitizer at a 4-day retreat with 40 people sharing food and close quarters?

I would guess >95% of 4-day retreats where 40 people are sharing food and close quarters don't include recommendations about the usage of hand sanitizer.