@JBlack: Your request for evidence substantiating my claim is well taken. That evidence is visible at the Berkeley (CA) area ‘rationalist community’ Discord channel called “The Forum”. If you cannot find “The Forum” on Discord then please DM me and I’ll attempt to supply you with other information whereby you can access it (I apologize as I’m a none-too-deft Discord user).
You can find dialog, at “The Forum”, substantiating my “[c]ertain recent events have shown that to not be the case” if you search for dialog from c. 5 Oct.-13 Oct. that uses strings like “Roko’s Basilisk”, “evidence”, and “Hitchens’s Razor”. Please note that some (but not all of this evidence) may no longer be visible as the dialog occured in Discord threads and, on that server as I understand it, threads are purged after 24 hours of inactivity.
Okay, so you are claiming that these tiny fragments of a particular discussion within a particular subdivision of a geographical fragment of the rationalist community represents evidence for the much broader claim you made about the rationalist community as a whole.
Well okay, you provided evidence so weaksauce as to be nearly water. If this was the best evidence you could provide, then I should update away from your claim, because I would have expected you to be able to provide much stronger evidence than that if it were true.
I’ve never even heard of this Discord channel (server?) before, so it can’t be very important to “the rationalist community”. Therefore, you can’t conclude anything about what is, or is not, near and dear to said community, from—what, one conversation on this one obscure Discord server?
(I mean, really. “Certain recent events”! Talk about blowing things out of proportion…)
You can find dialog, at “The Forum”, substantiating my “[c]ertain recent events have shown that to not be the case” if you search for dialog from c. 5 Oct.-13 Oct. that uses strings like “Roko’s Basilisk”, “evidence”, and “Hitchens’s Razor”. Please note that some (but not all of this evidence) may no longer be visible as the dialog occured in Discord threads and, on that server as I understand it, threads are purged after 24 hours of inactivity.
Oh come on! You have the evidence under your cursor, yet instead of copying it here, you are giving us a manual how to find it at some obscure server, with a warning that it gets deleted in 24 hours.
I have read your comment 2 days and 2 hours after you wrote it, therefore I have no idea what you refer to. Never heard about that Discord channel either.
Could you please be a little bit more cooperative?
@JBlack: Your request for evidence substantiating my claim is well taken. That evidence is visible at the Berkeley (CA) area ‘rationalist community’ Discord channel called “The Forum”. If you cannot find “The Forum” on Discord then please DM me and I’ll attempt to supply you with other information whereby you can access it (I apologize as I’m a none-too-deft Discord user).
You can find dialog, at “The Forum”, substantiating my “[c]ertain recent events have shown that to not be the case” if you search for dialog from c. 5 Oct.-13 Oct. that uses strings like “Roko’s Basilisk”, “evidence”, and “Hitchens’s Razor”. Please note that some (but not all of this evidence) may no longer be visible as the dialog occured in Discord threads and, on that server as I understand it, threads are purged after 24 hours of inactivity.
Okay, so you are claiming that these tiny fragments of a particular discussion within a particular subdivision of a geographical fragment of the rationalist community represents evidence for the much broader claim you made about the rationalist community as a whole.
Well okay, you provided evidence so weaksauce as to be nearly water. If this was the best evidence you could provide, then I should update away from your claim, because I would have expected you to be able to provide much stronger evidence than that if it were true.
I’ve never even heard of this Discord channel (server?) before, so it can’t be very important to “the rationalist community”. Therefore, you can’t conclude anything about what is, or is not, near and dear to said community, from—what, one conversation on this one obscure Discord server?
(I mean, really. “Certain recent events”! Talk about blowing things out of proportion…)
Oh come on! You have the evidence under your cursor, yet instead of copying it here, you are giving us a manual how to find it at some obscure server, with a warning that it gets deleted in 24 hours.
I have read your comment 2 days and 2 hours after you wrote it, therefore I have no idea what you refer to. Never heard about that Discord channel either.
Could you please be a little bit more cooperative?