Well, I could try to rephrase as “Below the standards of promoted, highly rated LW posts”, i.e., below the standards of the LW corpus, but what I actually meant there (though indeed I failed to say it) was “the standards I hold myself to when writing posts on LW”, i.e., what XiXiDu is trying to compare to Charles Stross.
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.
Well, I could try to rephrase as “Below the standards of promoted, highly rated LW posts”, i.e., below the standards of the LW corpus, but what I actually meant there (though indeed I failed to say it) was “the standards I hold myself to when writing posts on LW”, i.e., what XiXiDu is trying to compare to Charles Stross.
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.