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ChrisHallquist comments on Open Thread, November 23-30, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 25 November 2013 12:21:06AM *  5 points [-]

Not mean-spirited. Just honest. If this were a private conversation, I'd keep my thoughts to myself and leave in search of more rational company, but when someone starts publicly saying things like...

  • "Eliezer [is] proclaiming that it's not canon for this community."
  • "The comment is basically like, 'Scott Alexander good boy. We have paid him recently. Anissimov bad. Bad Anissimov no work for us no more.'"
  • Accusing Eliezer of dismissing an idea out of hand due to fear of public unpopularity.

(all of which are grossly unfair readings of Eliezer's coment)

...then I think some bluntness is called for.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 November 2013 12:18:50AM 2 points [-]

Not that much more unfair than proclaiming something thoroughly refuted and uninteresting based on a single post rebutting the least interesting claims of only two authors, especially given that what appears to have gotten picked up as the central point of the post (NK/SK) is wrong on many different levels.

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