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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 17, chapter 86 - Less Wrong Discussion
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That "science forbids" statement is not great. I can dismiss lots of arguments in the name of countering privileging the hypothesis. I shouldn't need to argue against them specifically unless they were brought to my attention for good reasons. That's why I dismiss cranks who claim they've proven the Riemann hypothesis without reading through their proofs to find out where the error is. The mechanism that generates these proofs isn't correlated with mathematical truth, and the space of possible proofs is large.
You're missing the point that reader objections you can find a way to dismiss as irrational are still reader objections. HP:MOR is explicitly intended as propaganda; so irrational reader objections are particularly important.
I'm not dismissing the objection. It's a perfectly sensible objection. I am dismissing the statement I pointed out and only that statement. Perhaps I should have made that clearer.