Eugine_Nier comments on Changing Systems is Different than Running Controlled Experiments—Don’t Choose How to Run Your Country That Way!

Eugine_Nier 13 Jun 2013 5:53 UTC
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“Blues and Greens”; Republicans and Democrats; socialists and libertarians;

feminists vs. PUA/MRA
- [deleted] 13 Jun 2013 17:58 UTC
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  Avoiding the tribalism doesn’t mean avoiding all the object-level bits of reality the tribes are interested in.
  
  It seems...broken if I can get together a group of people and say “we have strong opinions about X and we call ourselves Xians” and then LessWrong doesn’t discuss X anymore.
  - Eugine_Nier 15 Jun 2013 3:11 UTC
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    It seems...broken if I can get together a group of people and say “we have strong opinions about X and we call ourselves Xians” and then LessWrong doesn’t discuss X anymore.
    
    I never said we couldn’t have political discussions about X. What I said was don’t use X as an example when making a non-political point.