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Comment author: [deleted] 19 May 2011 05:25:05PM 6 points [-]

Art-related topics don't get enough respect. This fact manifests itself both in blatant ways (low scores for comments that discuss them) and in subtle ways (people make assumptions about what subtopic- and position-space look like in these domains, and show impatience with discussions about whether these assumptions are correct).

I'm very interested in what you're saying (being a musician, as I am), but I don't understand what you mean. Could you rephrase?

Comment author: komponisto 23 May 2011 08:08:32PM 1 point [-]

I was thinking of exchanges like this, in which my interlocutor took it for granted that musical taste is analogous to color preferences (and therefore of no greater intellectual interest), and displayed no interest in updating his beliefs on this question (I assume because of an unverbalized feeling that the topic isn't prestigious enough to think this deeply about).

Generally, what seems to happen is an inescapable spiral of "my heuristics tell me this comment is low-status, so I'm not going to read it carefully enough to notice any argument it may contain that my heuristics are wrong".

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