Cabalamat2 comments on Informers and Persuaders - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 February 2009 08:22PM

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Comment author: Cabalamat2 10 February 2009 11:55:25PM 0 points [-]

nazgulnarsil: the easiest way to spot scientism is to look for value statements being conflated with factual statements

And if you read something where you can't tell whether the writer is trying to make a value statement or a factual statement, the writer probably doesn't appreciate the difference between the two.