RichardKennaway comments on How could one (and should one) convert someone from pseudoscience? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 October 2015 09:56:47PM 2 points [-]

That seems extremely dangerous.

Everything is dangerous.

If it works, it can be misapplied.

If it doesn't work, it displaces effort from things that do work.

Comment author: tailcalled 05 October 2015 10:07:47PM 0 points [-]

Sure, but inside view/contrarianism/knowledge of most biases seem like things that ideally should be reserved for when you know what you're doing, which the person described in the OP probably doesn't.