wedrifid comments on Common sense as a prior - LessWrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 12 August 2013 05:14:31AM *  0 points [-]

-1 for unjustified arrogance.

Example followed. That is, this utterance is poor form and ironic. This charge applies far more to the parent than the grandparent. Advocacy of deference to social status rather than and despite of evidence of competence (or the lack thereof) is the most irrational, contagious and damaging idea that appears on this site. (Followed closely by the similar "but the outside view says <some arbitrary and irrelevant reference class tennis>".)