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gwern comments on [Link] You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Vladimir_Golovin 18 June 2012 07:57AM

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Comment author: gwern 18 June 2012 05:38:25PM 0 points [-]

Rationalist advice tends to degrade over time to its literal meaning.

I don't see what that sentence and link have to do with each other.

Comment author: GLaDOS 18 June 2012 06:01:52PM 3 points [-]

Konkvistador says quite prominently in it:

Over time the meaning of an article will tend to converge with the literal meaning of its title.

He then spends two paragraphs elaborating on it.