LessWronger uses empirics and numbers to prove math/compsci/Sam Harris are better and more rigorous than pomos/Žižek/Marx

LessWronger uses empirics and numbers to prove math/compsci/Sam Harris are better and more rigorous than pomos/Žižek/Marx (http://lesswrong.com/lw/mon/words_per_person_year_and_intellectual_rigor/)

posted on September 01, 2015 10:38 PM by u/completely-ineffable

u/Shitgenstein 3 points at 1441267433.000000

I speculate that semiotics and post-modernism (which often go hand-in-hand) became popular by natural selection. They provide specialized terminologies which give the impression of rigorous thought without requiring actual rigor.

0 to ironic in two sentences.

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u/Fuck_if_I_know 2 points at 1441150075.000000

I wonder what happens when we put Yukowski and all the shite he puts on his blog through this analysis..

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u/completely-ineffable 3 points at 1441304969.000000

He'd do quite well. The measure is that less writing per year = more rigorous. Having only a fanfic, a sequence of blog posts, and some technical reports on the MIRI's website, Yudkowsky would be rated as rather rigorous by that metric.

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u/Fuck_if_I_know 1 points at 1441322255.000000

Aren't there a shitload of those 'sentences', though? I never really checked.

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