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Mitchell_Porter comments on Can we stop using the word "rationalism"? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 19 March 2012 04:23:42AM 1 point [-]

But it is also likely that there is someone out there who will be effected negatively by this site.

You mean, someone who would have made a positive contribution, but they were intellectually (or otherwise) sidetracked by what they read here? That hadn't occurred to me. (Which is why my statement wasn't "rhetorical dark arts" - I genuinely didn't think of that possibility; I only thought in terms of "LW leads somewhere" or "LW leads nowhere".)

Comment author: Incorrect 19 March 2012 04:33:37AM *  1 point [-]

Which is why my statement wasn't "rhetorical dark arts"

I apologize, I did not mean to give the connotation of malice on your part, merely danger for readers.