He’s not saying LessWrong is vulnerable to it, he’s saying it’s just what people outside of LessWrong are going to believe. He’s explicitly mentioning it so as to not necessarily take it at face value.
You are correct in that I was not explicitly saying that LessWrong is vulnerable to this (except for the fact that this assumption hasn’t really been pushed back on until nowish), but to be honest I do expect some percentage of LessWrong folks to end up believing this regardless of evidence. That’s not really a critique against the community as a whole though, because in any group, no matter how forward-thinking, you’ll find people who don’t adjust much based on evidence contrary to their beliefs.
He’s not saying LessWrong is vulnerable to it, he’s saying it’s just what people outside of LessWrong are going to believe. He’s explicitly mentioning it so as to not necessarily take it at face value.
You are correct in that I was not explicitly saying that LessWrong is vulnerable to this (except for the fact that this assumption hasn’t really been pushed back on until nowish), but to be honest I do expect some percentage of LessWrong folks to end up believing this regardless of evidence. That’s not really a critique against the community as a whole though, because in any group, no matter how forward-thinking, you’ll find people who don’t adjust much based on evidence contrary to their beliefs.