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MattG comments on Typical Sneer Fallacy - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: calef 01 September 2015 03:13AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 September 2015 03:31:46AM *  0 points [-]

"Bad" is an aesthetic judgement. Different people have vastly different aesthetic tastes. HPMOR is a particularly polarizing example.

Comment author: adamzerner 02 September 2015 04:21:09AM *  0 points [-]

True. So I guess what I mean is "things that the viewer thinks is sufficiently bad". Ie. my impression is that a (c) kind of person would enjoy doing this sort of criticism for something they think is sufficiently bad. They wouldn't enjoy doing this sort of criticism for something they thought was mostly good.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 September 2015 06:44:40AM 0 points [-]

Gotcha, I thought you were making a different point.