Re: My view of recent events

From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 13:42:34 MDT


On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:14:14PM -0500, Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 10:58 AM 8/31/2006 -0700, Eliezer wrote:
>
> >What actually triggered Loosemore's [expulsion from SL4], please
> >note, was when he started claiming expertise in the field of
> >heuristics and biases.
>
> More extreme and toxic binary oppositions. My reading was that
> Richard claimed *familiarity* with h&b literature such as JuU,
> certainly as part of his postgraduate studies 20 years ago if not
> more recently, not *expertise* of the kind claimable by, say, a
> professor of the topic.

Dude, he bragged about how they made up a special distinction just
for him. If that's not claiming expertise, I don't know what is.

-Robin

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