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Jiro comments on [LINK] Another "LessWrongers are crazy" article - this time on Slate - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 22 July 2014 04:27:12AM 1 point [-]

I don't think the idea is that LW is about the basilisk, but rather that the nature of the basilisk exposes flaws of LW. Whether it does that depends on circumstances; while it's trivially true that any website has a most controversial comment, not every website has a most controversial comment that happened like the basilisk did.