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Douglas_Knight comments on Martinenaite and Tavenier on cryonics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 August 2011 05:21:01PM 8 points [-]

"Thank you for seriously engaging with my beliefs" is something that makes sense much more broadly.

I do think that there is something low-status in the phrasing. "Thank you for taking my beliefs seriously enough to criticize" I would call creepy. I suspect that there is a better way to phrase this. "Thank you for the debate" is a perfectly ordinary statement, but probably not adequate for this situation.