People often assume he’s all about frugality. In reality, he thinks that some things are worth spending good money on.
From my limited reading of MMM, he’s pretty intolerant/dismissive of people who have different beliefs about what is worth spending money on, which is a pet peeve of mine.
I don’t share that impression. A central and overarching claim that he makes on his blog is basically that everyone is doing it wrong. I think it is difficult to make that claim while also appearing tolerant. Given that it is the claim he is making, I think he does a solid job of also appearing tolerant. Could be better, could be worse.
In my reading of his blog, he strikes me as someone who values open-mindedness and epistemics, and generally a lot of the same virtues we value here on LessWrong. I think like everyone else he can get carried away and have some biases and stubbornness shine through, but at his core I don’t think he is the type of person who would be intolerant.
From my limited reading of MMM, he’s pretty intolerant/dismissive of people who have different beliefs about what is worth spending money on, which is a pet peeve of mine.
I don’t share that impression. A central and overarching claim that he makes on his blog is basically that everyone is doing it wrong. I think it is difficult to make that claim while also appearing tolerant. Given that it is the claim he is making, I think he does a solid job of also appearing tolerant. Could be better, could be worse.
In my reading of his blog, he strikes me as someone who values open-mindedness and epistemics, and generally a lot of the same virtues we value here on LessWrong. I think like everyone else he can get carried away and have some biases and stubbornness shine through, but at his core I don’t think he is the type of person who would be intolerant.