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OrphanWilde comments on Is semiotics bullshit? - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: PhilGoetz 25 August 2015 02:09PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 28 August 2015 09:09:51PM 0 points [-]

Sorry; I don't know why your comment got downvoted so much. It seems reasonable to me.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 29 August 2015 03:08:27AM 0 points [-]

Oh, a number of reasons; The carefree tone of the approach. The implication that I didn't spend too much time considering my opinion. The fact that my carefree, ill-considered tone is combined with a rejection of the idea that studied experts in a particular field actually have a clear idea what they're talking about based on a clearly limited understanding of what it is they're studying, as opposed to your pretty clearly well-thought out and considered response to a field you actually investigated.