...of what SF is about to futurists interested in serious and original thought about the future, which one would expect to find on LW. Not necessarily to SF writers or the general public. I think the point is that we should have consistent meta-level rules on what it’s okay to look down on people for; i.e. that the same rules should be applied for “nerds” and non-”nerds”.
This is a telling misunderstanding of what SF is about.
...of what SF is about to futurists interested in serious and original thought about the future, which one would expect to find on LW. Not necessarily to SF writers or the general public. I think the point is that we should have consistent meta-level rules on what it’s okay to look down on people for; i.e. that the same rules should be applied for “nerds” and non-”nerds”.