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TheAncientGeek 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: TheAncientGeek 08 July 2014 01:07:05PM *  6 points [-]

It's a great loss because it prevents constructive dialogue between the two communuties. There is quite a lot that US broken in the sequences...not so much in terms of being wrong as in terms of being unclear, addressing the wring question etc...and it looks likely to stay that way.

Comment author: Emile 08 July 2014 03:57:54PM 2 points [-]

There is quite a lot that US broken in the sequences

That was supposed to be "IS", right?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 09 July 2014 05:18:30AM 1 point [-]

It's a great loss because it prevents constructive dialogue between the two communuties.

Yes, this is why I recommend that LWers read Robert Nozick.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 July 2014 12:31:32PM 0 points [-]

Well, I like Nozick, but I like a lot of other people.as well.