Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Why Don't Rationalists Win? - LessWrong

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Comment author: Kawoomba 11 September 2015 08:56:48PM 15 points [-]

Their approach reduces to an anti-epistemic affect-heuristic, using the ugh-field they self-generate in a reverse affective death spiral (loosely based on our memeplex) as a semantic stopsign, when in fact the Kolmogorov distance to bridge the terminological inferential gap is but an epsilon.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 18 September 2015 08:30:13PM 3 points [-]

You know you've been reading Less Wrong too long when you only have to read that comment twice to understand it.