Quillette: Outgroups, Bias, and the Dark Web
post by Jacob Falkovich (Jacobian) · 2018-05-25T20:31:54.816Z · LW · GW · 2 commentsThis is a link post for https://quillette.com/2018/05/25/groups-groups-idw/
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My first essay for Quillette builds on "The Context is Conflict" to explore the clash between decouplers and contextualizers, why everyone is a hypocrite, who's whose outgroup, how tribalism makes smart people biased, and what the Intellectual Dark Web can learn about #OvercomingBias.
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comment by jimrandomh · 2018-05-26T07:16:55.148Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I agree that the decoupler/contextualizer divide is important, and explains a lot of conflict that's going on.
It's worth clarifying that, while the rationality/Less Wrong community is certainly high-decoupling, and is definitely a recognizable tribe, it's not the same group as the one currently being referred to as the "intellectual dark web".
Replies from: Paperclip Minimizer↑ comment by Paperclip Minimizer · 2018-05-28T14:40:30.927Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
It depends on the rationalist space in question. LW isn't in the IDW given it's politics-free while the /r/slatestarcodex subreddit is inside the IDW and many of its members qualify it as such.
(It is incidentally 1. more prone to comments showing a lack of familiarity to basic rationalist/Sequences concepts, and 2. more prone to uncharitable culture-warring and casual bigotry (e.g. misgendering). I think the three may be correlated.)