Below the standards of promoted, highly rated LW posts
seems to be different than
our smart friends and favorite SF writers are not remotely close to the rationality standards of Less Wrong
because we do a lot of armchair speculating in comment threads about things on which the “rational” position to take is far from clear—and, furthermore, just because someone isn’t trying to present a rational argument for their position at any given moment doesn’t mean that they can’t.
seems to be different than
because we do a lot of armchair speculating in comment threads about things on which the “rational” position to take is far from clear—and, furthermore, just because someone isn’t trying to present a rational argument for their position at any given moment doesn’t mean that they can’t.