Have you read Politics is the Mind-Killer? I get the vague sense you haven’t, and I see lots of references here to it but no direct link. If you haven’t, you should go read it and every adjacent article.
Edit: actually there is a link below already. Oops.
I find it funny, by the way, that people here are criticizing me for not giving evidence for a claim that is not only known to be true by almost everyone, but which can be verified in 5 seconds with Google if you have a doubt, while recommending a piece that begins with a very strong and arguably unverifiable claim about the evolutionary origin of the way in which humans talk about politics… (Which is not to say, to be clear, that I disagree with everything Yudkowsky says in that essay.)
While I would agree that those kinds of accusations are used unfairly at times, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assign Yudkowsky’s statements a higher a priori chance of being true.
Have you read Politics is the Mind-Killer? I get the vague sense you haven’t, and I see lots of references here to it but no direct link. If you haven’t, you should go read it and every adjacent article.
Edit: actually there is a link below already. Oops.
Yes, I read it, there was a link in one of the first replies I got.
I find it funny, by the way, that people here are criticizing me for not giving evidence for a claim that is not only known to be true by almost everyone, but which can be verified in 5 seconds with Google if you have a doubt, while recommending a piece that begins with a very strong and arguably unverifiable claim about the evolutionary origin of the way in which humans talk about politics… (Which is not to say, to be clear, that I disagree with everything Yudkowsky says in that essay.)
While I would agree that those kinds of accusations are used unfairly at times, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assign Yudkowsky’s statements a higher a priori chance of being true.