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Valentine comments on Thoughts on the January CFAR workshop - Less Wrong Discussion

37 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 January 2013 10:16AM

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Comment author: Kawoomba 31 January 2013 06:45:34PM 0 points [-]

The statement as he made it is correct, you are not correcting it but making a narrower, also correct, version of his statement.

(I think I need to gzip that sentence.)

Comment author: Valentine 31 January 2013 06:52:22PM 1 point [-]

Really? I'm not so sure. Sympathetic nervous system activity isn't necessarily unpleasant or unhealthy. It's what makes you sweat and have a fast heart rate when exercising. It's very unhealthy not to have that!

But if others interpret Qiaochu's comment in a way that accurately reflects reality, then the fact that it's different than how I read it is not terribly relevant. I was only concerned that some here might come away with a mistaken idea of what the message of that particular CFAR unit was. If there are no such mistakes, then all is good!