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Ugh. These lesswrong people don't know what "rationalist" means and they are so ignorant while being full of confidence. Really quite distasteful to read. "Thi
by BergljotHeida 12y ago
Ugh. These lesswrong people don't know what "rationalist" means and they are so ignorant while being full of confidence. Really quite distasteful to read.
"This is a work of postmodern fiction..."
Seriously?!
- slashnull 12y agoLess Wrong is a tentacular, all-encompassing organism that uses the word "rationalism" and "bayes theorem" in subtly overloaded senses as aesthetic ideals, life goals and in general as meliorative qualificatives. It's one of the most polarizing and memetic thing to happen in popular philosophy and epistemology, and cultists typically end up moving into less sectarian areas of the internet pretty quickly. LW has a culture that encourages and celebrates self-consciousness, and knowledge and correction of one's cognitive biases. LW is a place where people have flame wars about epistemology. LW is a place where the participants of a given flame war adopt the logically correct conclusion reached through civilized and organised discussion. LW is beautiful. Let it go.
- BergljotHeida 12y agoIt's not beautiful it's sickening. "Pop philosophy" is ridiculous since philosophy is already digestible