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RichardKennaway comments on [LINK] Why I'm not on the Rationalist Masterlist - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 07 January 2014 01:44:50PM 4 points [-]

Note that this community reacts badly to some topics as well.

In the sense of being unfavourable to some topics, or being irrationally unfavourable to those topics?

Comment author: Dagon 07 January 2014 07:11:42PM 1 point [-]

In the same sense as the linked post: recognizing that there may be value in the discussion, but not trusting ourselves and each other to be rational enough to actually get the value in open discussion.

On one level, that's a rational reaction to our limitations in rationality. But those limits are irrational.