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RichardKennaway comments on How to debate when authority is questioned, but really not needed? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 February 2015 09:26:15AM 0 points [-]

Neither of these Random Commenters is bringing anything to the conversation: no claims of their own, no arguments of their own, no authority of their own, nothing. An Eliza program could do as well. Why bother with someone who is doing a successful imitation of a bot?