As bcoburn said, the point of this post appears to be to highlight the large inferential distance between mainstream thinking and many settled issues on LW. It doesn’t appear to be trying to refute the LW attitudes. Furthermore:
[the list of points are] deliberately phrased to incite kneejerk disagreement and ugh-fields
It is trying to list them as they might be seen by outsiders in the least convenient possible world (and/or real world).
Yes, I understand the purpose of the post. I should have added my reasoning to the end: things are weird if you phrase them weirdly, as in the original post. Use of creative grammar and analogies can negate many of the reactions you would otherwise get. Also, ‘settled issues’ are anything but, even to people who have followed the site since SL4 mailing list. Or perhaps I’m simply diverging from the LW mainstream as time progresses.
I can’t handle this site’s scrutiny right now.
As bcoburn said, the point of this post appears to be to highlight the large inferential distance between mainstream thinking and many settled issues on LW. It doesn’t appear to be trying to refute the LW attitudes. Furthermore:
It is trying to list them as they might be seen by outsiders in the least convenient possible world (and/or real world).
Yes, I understand the purpose of the post. I should have added my reasoning to the end: things are weird if you phrase them weirdly, as in the original post. Use of creative grammar and analogies can negate many of the reactions you would otherwise get. Also, ‘settled issues’ are anything but, even to people who have followed the site since SL4 mailing list. Or perhaps I’m simply diverging from the LW mainstream as time progresses.