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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 07 August 2013 02:50:30AM 9 points [-]

The Arguments From My Opponent Believes Something are a lot like accusations of arrogance. They’re last-ditch attempts to muddy up the waters. If someone says a particular theory doesn’t explain everything, or that it’s elitist, or that it’s being turned into a religion, that means they can’t find anything else.

Otherwise they would have called it wrong.

-- Scott Alexander, On first looking into Chapman’s “Pop Bayesianism”