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He's conflating "think for yourself" with "averages to 50". Sure, it's silly to think one side is absolutely right, but it's also silly to think that the "avera

• abernard1 7y ago
  > but it's also silly to think that the "average" rightness is right in the middle between the two sides (even if you grant the use of a linear model). Thank you for this. He has that post where he talks about "What you can't say" [1]. His basic premise is that it's naive to think that you'd believe the same things you do now by default if you lived in a different time period. The posted article above seems pretty contradictory to me. Its notion of what is "moderate" is essentially anchored to the environment where a person lives. Would moderation be a virtue in an authoritarian country? [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html