In defense of crackpots, many of the canonical writers here would ping the crackpot meter of most people, as would most of the LW contributors.
Korzybski is a prime example. If I hadn’t had a very strong prior from personal discussions, there is no way I would have made it 10 pages into Science and Sanity.
For serious reading, my priors are more important than typesetting. For web blogs and filtering forums, it’s a decent way to filter complete unknowns.
In defense of crackpots, many of the canonical writers here would ping the crackpot meter of most people, as would most of the LW contributors.
Korzybski is a prime example. If I hadn’t had a very strong prior from personal discussions, there is no way I would have made it 10 pages into Science and Sanity.
For serious reading, my priors are more important than typesetting. For web blogs and filtering forums, it’s a decent way to filter complete unknowns.