Hul-Gil comments on Tendencies in reflective equilibrium - LessWrong

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Comment author: Hul-Gil 24 July 2011 04:21:50AM *  0 points [-]

I don't understand the first sentence. Are you saying you were just being facetious in your advice?

Unless you were, I think my seriousness evaluation is just fine. Your responses may not be serious compared to, say, an actual zillion-unit threat-response, but I am surprised that you'd bring up the possibility of the latter at all. I understood your advisory quite well; what was somewhat astonishing was that you apparently felt someone on LessWrong might take a fanciful version of a fanciful thought experiment seriously enough to engage in a "non-blog-comment rational response"! (!)

It was also surprising to see that endoself felt people would be bothered enough by a Pascal's Mugging to leave the site. These on top of the fact that I had no intention of actually posting a mugging, and meant my post to be a mere musing ("I wonder if ... Would anyone") on intellectual vs actual acceptance.

It is I who do not take this seriously enough, it appears! Though I myself have no intent to actually attempt said mugging, as stated before, I will point out that according to CarlShulman, user TimFreeman has already done so, and no shitstorm ensued... AFAIK.