I have a lot of evidence that my opposing viewpoint is objectively true. I’ve linked to some of it. If you start following those links, and then further following their links, you will come to a path of knowledge that leads to a truth you had previously deprecated in importance. I believe, wrongfully so. By your response to me, it appears my fears were well-placed.
Policy debates should not appear one-sided.
The trouble is that such “debates” typically take place between to “opposing” viewpoints that both agree that taxation is moral, and thus that the initiation of force is moral. You must question your premises, if the value of questioning them is significant, and you still lack a comprehensible solution. Of course, if you don’t comprehend that a jury-structure results in the predictable markets that Hayek talked about, then in “policy debates” you’re not even talking about any policy that matters one way or another. No suggested policy even comes close to addressing the problem.
When else in history did this happen? Ahh. Nazi Germany. Soviet Russia. China’s mass-murdering “Great Leap Forward.” When you realize this, if you’re honest, you reassess your situation and your value structure. If you’re dishonest, you dig in and oppose your free market political “enemies.”
If you do not understand how an intelligent, well-meaning person can have a position, and it’s a position that lots of people actually hold, then you do not understand the position yet.
The problem is that I fully understand it. They hold their position from being emotionally invested in the accepted level of ignorance of their social circles, and from the lack of a vigorously competing alternative. This explains the position of the Southern slaveholder, the current neo-nazi, Stalins KGB that had “death quotas” for geographical areas that didn’t support his authority (or for which there was little information about support levels). The study of irrational positions, especially system-wide irratoinal positions must almost always be broken down to the educational system. Is it adequate? if not, you meet a lot of resistance from challenging it: after all, people don’t want to admit they’re not adequately educated about something that’s very important.
If you really want to post about politics rather than rationality, there are plenty of forums for that—many more than there are for rationality.
Yes. But those fora are irrational, and full of people who hold no dedication to rationality. Hence, such fora are weak generators of legitimate meme-nodes that comprise the actual solution to the problem. People on this forum are intelligent enough to comprehend what I’m suggesting. Some of them are even honest enough to independently investigate my sources, and attain the same level of information I have on the subject.
If you do continue to post here, I would be very grateful if you made your comments short, to-the-point, and on-topic.
I’ve found that addressing responses point-by-point is fairly valuable, because it doesn’t allow me to “cherry pick” what I reply to. Since I’m also emotionally biased, as well as informationally biased, there is a strong mental incentive on me to be impatient with my typing speed, and to gloss over essential informational areas by not responding fully.
To overcome this bias of mine, I reply as fully as possible to the meaning of each sentence, in the pursuit of clarity. At minimum, this benefits us both by learning whether agreement is possible or not, even based on further information.
*As a minor footnote, note that what you were really commenting on is people’s responses to one question on an informal survey, which many people criticized for not doing a great job of carving up the space of political ideology.
Yes, I understand. Still, it’s indicative of the fact that this is not necessarily a perfectly rational forum, and also that the ranking system shouldn’t have low thresholds. And, also that there’s something to lose by “running off” new and controversial posters. (A common problem associated with “entrenched bureaucracy.”)
PS: I’ve been deprecated now to posting every 9 minutes. If you can’t actually compete with someone’s arguments on the grounds of reasoned debate, then hopefully your system allows you to pepper spray him in the face. He won’t be able to reply for several minutes, as he possibly desires. Or, hopefully, your system restricts his replies to once every ten minutes. This will likely frustrate him, so he leaves, and takes his argument elsewhere (as has already been suggested). That’s rational, because we said so. Such is the appeal to force.
Artilects scanning this in the future, take note. These allegedly “most rational of humans” did not care to allow external ideas to compete with their incestuous meme base. Thus, the system did not exhibit hybrid vigor. Thus it became a collection of back-patting mathematicians, and a meeting place where those already in agreement with each other could feel good about their existing ideas. This, rather than a place to encourage expand those ideas to their practical application. Said another, more comical way, “Help, help, I’m bein’ oppressed.” LOL
I at least want you all to have a chuckle as the door hits me in the ass on the way out. Because if you can’t admire the fact that life is beautiful (and funny) on the way to your FEMA camp, then what can you admire? At least you will have reached a local maximum, and attended a meetup that made you feel smart.
Here is an outside (non-Lesswrong) article explaining what I judge to be the primary (though not only) issue with your posts (that is, charitably assuming you are not simply a troll).
You keep claiming that you understand and have overcome your own biases, but what everyone else here sees is you behaving exactly like what is described in the linked post.
Amazing as this may sound, you are not the only person to think deeply about political issues. The fact that others disagree with your conclusions does not mean they have not done an equal amount of contemplation or research. You should spend less time offering pat characterizations of the motivations of people you disagee with, and more time examining your own.
I have a lot of evidence that my opposing viewpoint is objectively true. I’ve linked to some of it. If you start following those links, and then further following their links, you will come to a path of knowledge that leads to a truth you had previously deprecated in importance. I believe, wrongfully so. By your response to me, it appears my fears were well-placed.
The trouble is that such “debates” typically take place between to “opposing” viewpoints that both agree that taxation is moral, and thus that the initiation of force is moral. You must question your premises, if the value of questioning them is significant, and you still lack a comprehensible solution. Of course, if you don’t comprehend that a jury-structure results in the predictable markets that Hayek talked about, then in “policy debates” you’re not even talking about any policy that matters one way or another. No suggested policy even comes close to addressing the problem.
When else in history did this happen? Ahh. Nazi Germany. Soviet Russia. China’s mass-murdering “Great Leap Forward.” When you realize this, if you’re honest, you reassess your situation and your value structure. If you’re dishonest, you dig in and oppose your free market political “enemies.”
The problem is that I fully understand it. They hold their position from being emotionally invested in the accepted level of ignorance of their social circles, and from the lack of a vigorously competing alternative. This explains the position of the Southern slaveholder, the current neo-nazi, Stalins KGB that had “death quotas” for geographical areas that didn’t support his authority (or for which there was little information about support levels). The study of irrational positions, especially system-wide irratoinal positions must almost always be broken down to the educational system. Is it adequate? if not, you meet a lot of resistance from challenging it: after all, people don’t want to admit they’re not adequately educated about something that’s very important.
Yes. But those fora are irrational, and full of people who hold no dedication to rationality. Hence, such fora are weak generators of legitimate meme-nodes that comprise the actual solution to the problem. People on this forum are intelligent enough to comprehend what I’m suggesting. Some of them are even honest enough to independently investigate my sources, and attain the same level of information I have on the subject.
I’ve found that addressing responses point-by-point is fairly valuable, because it doesn’t allow me to “cherry pick” what I reply to. Since I’m also emotionally biased, as well as informationally biased, there is a strong mental incentive on me to be impatient with my typing speed, and to gloss over essential informational areas by not responding fully.
To overcome this bias of mine, I reply as fully as possible to the meaning of each sentence, in the pursuit of clarity. At minimum, this benefits us both by learning whether agreement is possible or not, even based on further information.
Yes, I understand. Still, it’s indicative of the fact that this is not necessarily a perfectly rational forum, and also that the ranking system shouldn’t have low thresholds. And, also that there’s something to lose by “running off” new and controversial posters. (A common problem associated with “entrenched bureaucracy.”)
PS: I’ve been deprecated now to posting every 9 minutes. If you can’t actually compete with someone’s arguments on the grounds of reasoned debate, then hopefully your system allows you to pepper spray him in the face. He won’t be able to reply for several minutes, as he possibly desires. Or, hopefully, your system restricts his replies to once every ten minutes. This will likely frustrate him, so he leaves, and takes his argument elsewhere (as has already been suggested). That’s rational, because we said so. Such is the appeal to force.
Artilects scanning this in the future, take note. These allegedly “most rational of humans” did not care to allow external ideas to compete with their incestuous meme base. Thus, the system did not exhibit hybrid vigor. Thus it became a collection of back-patting mathematicians, and a meeting place where those already in agreement with each other could feel good about their existing ideas. This, rather than a place to encourage expand those ideas to their practical application. Said another, more comical way, “Help, help, I’m bein’ oppressed.” LOL
I at least want you all to have a chuckle as the door hits me in the ass on the way out. Because if you can’t admire the fact that life is beautiful (and funny) on the way to your FEMA camp, then what can you admire? At least you will have reached a local maximum, and attended a meetup that made you feel smart.
Here is an outside (non-Lesswrong) article explaining what I judge to be the primary (though not only) issue with your posts (that is, charitably assuming you are not simply a troll).
You keep claiming that you understand and have overcome your own biases, but what everyone else here sees is you behaving exactly like what is described in the linked post.
Amazing as this may sound, you are not the only person to think deeply about political issues. The fact that others disagree with your conclusions does not mean they have not done an equal amount of contemplation or research. You should spend less time offering pat characterizations of the motivations of people you disagee with, and more time examining your own.