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1Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Sorry. There are a couple of interesting snippets buried in your comments...however, your one-line-at-a-time style and jarring subject changes kind of make my brain hurt. (Is that the point?)
6Richard_Kennaway
This just in! Some people on the internet agree about some stuff! Film at 11!
-22groo
gwern170

Angloamerican 'rationality' nowadays is located in a set of islands: California, Washington area, NY, and Greater London. Just look at the location of Your 'meetups. Do you really believe that there is the peak of human thinking?

Yes. Great thinking, in every field scientific and artistic, has always been associated with cities and metropolitan areas. This should be obvious for economic reasons alone, but if it isn't check out the relevant chapter in Murray's Human Accomplishment correlating biographies of thousands of important figures against birth and workplaces.

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4[anonymous]
You are funny. None of those criticisms apply specifically to LW, and none of them seem to be written with any knowledge of the LW material. You seem to think LW is another outpost of dawkins-style atheism/skepticism. That's not what we are about.
-4[anonymous]
I'm upvoting this confused fellow; instinct tells me that he's either salavgeable or, in the worst case, here's the place where he can be persuaded to seek counseling. VALIS help me, I like freaks.
2Multiheaded
No, sir. Anyone can plainly see that placebo works better than poorly manufactured and mis-prescribed drugs. This is not what the discussion was about.
2J_Taylor
As a curiosity, are you a non-native English speaker?
-18groo