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NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 June 2013 01:43:36PM 3 points [-]

For what it's worth, the complaints I've heard about LW center around arrogance, not excessive compliance.

Comment author: drethelin 25 June 2013 09:50:25PM 1 point [-]

you could restate the arrogance as an expectation that others update when you say things

Comment author: FiftyTwo 25 June 2013 04:21:15PM 1 point [-]

Likewise, especially of people talking about fields they are not experts in.

Comment author: TimS 25 June 2013 04:26:58PM 0 points [-]

I agree that this is a common failure mode locally on LW, but even if this community did not have this problem, Villiam_Bur's point would still have a lot of explanatory power on why raising-the-sanity-line methods are resisted by society at large.