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Dawkins, The Greatest Show On Earth
This explains the post well.
This disaggreement though is people who are enemies of truth or logic.
There is resentment of thinking. You are smarter and you know more so you are offensive to them.
Is there directory of LessWrong Tumblr?
What has happened to Metamed? Their site is down :-( http://www.metamed.com
I think the survey is pushed by SJW trolls. I believe the comments on the articles represent LW views, and the votes on them show how we feel.
The Basilisk is a waste of effort to consider. We have many, many real life problems to write about.
I am not white. If you do not believe race realism then you are equivalent to creationist. There is no magic in evolution.
I apologize to Scott if I have misrepresented his views :-( Gamergate is not coherent as it should be.
These things are disgusting. Slate Star is increasing in reasonableness.
The LW tone has improved this year and this post is refreshing.
The tone of Lesswrong is against social justice indulging. It has improved this year in this regard and leading to this post.
Libertarianism is insufficient as most people will be led easily. They will not take freedom. Freedom is hard work, freedom is frightening. Neoreaction follows from libertarianism with a more secure possible future. Technology provides wealth and being with your group provides security in society.
This would cancel all speech about politics though, by anyone.
Do you mean that neoreaction is totalizing, that individual neoreactionaries at least are totalizing?
It has robust answers that hold true. Lesswrong needs to use rationality to speak out against the social justice warriors more. We need more rationalists to explain Gamergate and other initiatives. SSC and Ozy come out in favor of Gamergate and Eron Gjoni for example. Politics need not be the mind killer with showing sufficient working.
I'm pleased to see more neoreaction here. This post makes me confident to come back.
Lesswrong needs to use rationality to speak out against the social justice warriors more. We need more rationalists to explain Gamergate and other initiatives. SSC and Ozy come out in favor of Gamergate and Eron Gjoni for example. Politics need not be the mind killer with showing sufficient working.
Please taboo "creepy".
Corporations do not have utility function, or they do not have a single utility function. They have many utility functions. You might "money pump" the corporation.
Their belief or cowardly is not the problem. We must be concerned about their expected behavior. The rest is a commentary.
This is good. Great many people talk only in terms of what they think they should believe, but not what they behave -- this shows what they truly believe.
Thank you. Lesswrong needs more race realism under what ever name.
I will consider your post.
It is a good thing but it does not follow direct from "refining the art of human rationality". This needs us to examine fearlessly and rationally all questions even uncomfortable, and that follows direct from "refining the art of human rationality". You are right it does help this to have more varied people here.
I agree. It is not honest intellectually to stop discussion.
All groups fall on a distribution. All groups have high and low. "All whites are better than all blacks" or "all blacks are better than all whites" is wrong and obvious racist.
You are changing topic and dodging answer. Does ESR have "racist material"?
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." — George Orwell.
Yes. VDARE is not a hate group. It is politicaly incorrect. This is not racist.
Raymond says Derbyshire uses "racist" ironically. "I think his ‘racism’ is a snook being cocked at bien pensants. He doesn’t think or act like a racist; he’s got a Chinese wife, and he’s not fixated on any racial group being inferior."
As Raymond says you are conceding the truth to real racists.
Do you call John Derbyshire or Eric S. Raymond racist?
What is a hate group?
I look forward to your work!
But isteve is linked on LessWrong frequently. It is unclear how far you feel the curse by association goes.
Do not put marketing considerations above the rational search for truth.
LessWrong contains material that would upset people taken out of context. (eg. Gwern's post how to sabotage Intel to slow down unfriendly AI.) I think that this does not make any other article on LessWrong not true.
If I link to Steve Sailer will you be upset as he writes for Vdare?
As GLaDOS knows this is well documented already (in sources that have bias but the facts are good).
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The fictional set is as good place to look in as any, yes, but it is small.
Yes: Humans think in stories but there are far far more concepts that do not make good story than do make it.
You are right, I am in error.
What can we do about reactions like this?
You have put marketing considerations above the rational search for the truth. I do not think you would have done the same thing when you were considering atheism: "will this true belief make me less marketable?" And you should not do it now.
We must stay and fight. The accusers of racism are the true racists: they think by ignoring the differences the differences will go away, but to ignore the differences is fake egalitarianism that makes the less capable worse off then they would be if we acknowledged the differences and we could allow for them.
I like your posts here.
Differences between groups is obvious to any rational person I think. I cannot see how it can be otherwise. Anyone calling this racist is mind killed.
Hi! I have read for a while. I read HPMOR and enjoyed the sequences. I prefer not to say where I live.
It looks as he is just another smart guy who is no wiser outside the laboratory.
edit: I am wrong and withdraw this comment.