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I don't need the general reader to have read all my comments - my current comments were pretty clear about the fact that I was criticizing bad arguments and cla

I don't need the general reader to have read all my comments - my current comments were pretty clear about the fact that I was criticizing bad arguments and clarifying moral questions. You pretty explicitly refused to challenge me which is why I assumed you were seeking status rather than intellectual discussion. That's still the belief I hold. If you want to challenge my reasoning or axioms, please do! That's far more interesting. I also have no idea why you think I'm somehow advocating discrimination or even coming close. Let me reiterate: "I know how I justify my moral positions - my opposition to protectionism (either pro-white or ..." "I'm pretty explicitly stating that I consider racism to be extrinsically bad..." I suppose the fact that I've engaged in similar philosophical nerdery for years was just great planning - I've been secretly white supremacist for years and was just laying a deep internet cover? Of course if I had that kind of foresight and such strong pro-white feelings, don't you think I would have arranged my life slightly differently? Consider the possibility that Lutherans don't secretly worship Satan, in spite of having slightly different pro-Jesus arguments than Catholics.

tptacek 10y ago
My unwillingness to provide you with a first-principles predicate logic argument for why racial discrimination is wrong doesn't constitute an attempt to "seek status".
- yummyfajitas 10y ago
  Thinly veiled accusations of racism while smugly acting as if you are somehow above a conversation you continue to participate in is an attempt to raise your status. In any case, I also just realized why you've become so much more aggressively anti-intellectual. I doubt that your attempts to signal virtue to the enemies of meritocracy will work, but I do hope you guys survive their inevitable attacks when they figure out that stockfighter is basically a g-test. <- Notice the attempt to raise my own status, rather than engage in intellectual discourse?
  - tptacek 10y ago
    I think you find this appeal to "status" more compelling than I do.

tptacek 10y ago

My unwillingness to provide you with a first-principles predicate logic argument for why racial discrimination is wrong doesn't constitute an attempt to "seek status".

yummyfajitas 10y ago
Thinly veiled accusations of racism while smugly acting as if you are somehow above a conversation you continue to participate in is an attempt to raise your status. In any case, I also just realized why you've become so much more aggressively anti-intellectual. I doubt that your attempts to signal virtue to the enemies of meritocracy will work, but I do hope you guys survive their inevitable attacks when they figure out that stockfighter is basically a g-test. <- Notice the attempt to raise my own status, rather than engage in intellectual discourse?
- tptacek 10y ago
  I think you find this appeal to "status" more compelling than I do.