Imagine a thousand professional philosophers would join lesswrong
Imagine.
EDIT: In response to downvotes, I will explain:
Philip turned to Sparta; he sent them a message, “You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.” Their laconic reply: “If”. Philip and Alexander would both leave them alone.
It may be of interest that the word “laconic” is exactly the right one. Laconia = Sparta (well, strictly Sparta was just one part of Laconia) and its people were famously terse.
Completely off topic but my … a few hundred LWers vs. thousands of professional philosophers. That sounds like an idea for a fanfic webcomic.
“A thousand proponents of mainstream philosophy descend upon you! Our down votes will blot out the sequences!”
Imagine.
EDIT: In response to downvotes, I will explain:
It may be of interest that the word “laconic” is exactly the right one. Laconia = Sparta (well, strictly Sparta was just one part of Laconia) and its people were famously terse.
Superfluous.
“Then we shall argue in the shade!”
“Then we shall argue with citations!”
“Tonight, we posit far-fetched cosmic torture scenarios in hell!”