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polymathwannabe comments on Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 13 October 2015 08:03:49AM 1 point [-]

What definition of "bigotry" are you using? The "standard definition" amounts to "applying Bayesian priors to people".

Huh, no it doesn't.

suddenly being banned

Lots of people had expressed annoyance at advandcedatheist talking about the same topic over and over again. That's hardly "sudden". (OTOH I would have preferred him to be officially warned by a moderator before being banned.)

Comment author: Lumifer 13 October 2015 02:34:47PM 2 points [-]

Lots of people had expressed annoyance at advandcedatheist talking about the same topic over and over again. That's hardly "sudden".

The leap from annoyance to a ban was quite sudden.