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Comment author: FAWS 25 May 2011 07:57:40PM 4 points [-]

Personally I prefer referring to the work of a relevant expert to an evolutionary psychology based "just so" explanation, even if that explanation is advanced by Eliezer himself.

Comment author: magfrump 29 May 2011 04:26:19AM 0 points [-]

When trying to explain to someone the LessWrongian conception of "Politics is the Mind-Killer"?

I agree that in general, references to external experts are desirable. But in the case of the wiki I don't think the point is to create facts, it's to explain concepts from the sequences. And experts in evolutionary psychology are not experts in Less Wrong vocab.

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