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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Why are people "put off by rationality"? - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: adamzerner 05 August 2014 06:15PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 05 August 2014 07:38:19PM 5 points [-]

See also EYs comment on FB:

People who have this [status regulating] emotion leave angry reviews on Chapter 6 of HPMOR where they complain about how much Harry is disrespecting Professor McGonagall and they can’t read this story.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 05 August 2014 10:36:44PM 11 points [-]

I wasn't very satisfied with Eliezer's comment there. He seemed to be missing the point of those complaints. They didn't mind necessarily that Harry acted as he did, but they found it out-of-character that McGonagall would respond to Harry's actions as she did.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 05 August 2014 11:22:51PM *  7 points [-]

Comes off as if its an excerpt from Atlas Shrugged or something, with the wonderful hero so obviously superior to everyone...

Comment author: drethelin 05 August 2014 10:09:49PM 3 points [-]

yeah that's one of the worst parts of the story for me.

Comment author: adamzerner 05 August 2014 08:08:20PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the link. I think the idea of status slapdown is (part?) of what I was getting at in 1).

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