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MrMind comments on Guarding Against the Postmodernist Failure Mode - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: AspiringRationalist 08 July 2014 01:34AM

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Comment author: MrMind 08 July 2014 12:45:43PM 1 point [-]

Insularity in this case is simply a case of long inferential distances. It seems like senseless noise to the outside because that's what compressed information looks like to all who dont' have a decoder.
Every group that specializes on something falls into that, and it's healthy that it does so. But we should want a PR office only if we would want to sell our worldview to others, not to check our own sanity.