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Elithrion comments on Personal Evidence - Superstitions as Rational Beliefs - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: OrphanWilde 22 March 2013 05:24PM

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Comment author: Elithrion 22 March 2013 07:14:00PM 18 points [-]

Either that or maybe either OrphanWilde or his sister or someone else close to him really enjoys messing with everyone and making it seem that the house is haunted.

Comment author: A4FB53AC 24 March 2013 06:03:28AM 0 points [-]

Especially to mess with one of those people intolerant of our beliefs in the supernatural, who always have to go about how this or that can easily be dismissed if only you were rational. How ironical could it be then to get one to believe in a haunted house because it was the rational thing to do given the "evidence"?

Comment author: ModusPonies 22 March 2013 09:38:40PM 0 points [-]

That sounds like a restatement of the parent comment, with different connotation.

Comment author: Elithrion 23 March 2013 12:41:29AM 2 points [-]

I meant "someone close to him" in a relationship, not a spatial, sense (so, "other family member or friend he knows about"). Which I guess is still kind of just a different connotation, but I think one worth noticing separately from the "crazy lurker who's been around for a while" hypothesis.

Comment author: ModusPonies 23 March 2013 02:32:41AM 1 point [-]

I see. Thanks for clarifying.

Comment author: atucker 22 March 2013 11:02:37PM *  -1 points [-]

Though, the other stuff in the post, and his other comments on the thread, really make it seem to me to be related to the house rather than to him, or his friends.