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wedrifid comments on Emotional Basilisks - Less Wrong Discussion

-2 Post author: OrphanWilde 28 June 2013 09:10PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 June 2013 01:48:26PM 4 points [-]

Do you have a better example in mind?

No, not off the top of my head. I also don't particularly object to using this example. I do oppose prohibitions on fighting the hypothetical. Making this choice of hypothetical represents a form of influence. Persuasion that is immune to rebuttal is (usually) undesirable for epistemic purposes.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 July 2013 06:10:56PM *  0 points [-]

And that's not even the worst example that's been on LW! :-)