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0 Post author: Cayenne 10 May 2011 11:01AM

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 10 May 2011 11:27:31AM 4 points [-]

Without explicit norms, we invite debates over exactly what a 'real' rationalist should believe, and whether or not any specific person might qualify

Doesn't actually happen all that much, to be honest.

Comment author: Leonhart 10 May 2011 02:03:53PM 2 points [-]

Without explicit definitions, we invite debates over exactly what a sound is, and whether or not any specific tree falling might qualify

No, it doesn't.

Comment author: Cayenne 10 May 2011 11:31:35AM 0 points [-]

It doesn't have to happen often to cumulatively waste more time than this process will take.

Another reason to do this is that it will give us something very easy to point people to when they ask us 'what is a rationalist, anyway?'

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