One object level reason to curate both is that this post highlights some important details and questions about how culture and reason interface, and the “Reason is Magic” post offers a concrete, non-mysterious response that I found usefully clarifying.
There’s a meta level thing where I think it’s sort of using for LW readers who don’t keep up to date as much about how ongoing conversations played out, to have a good repository of the highlights of that conversation.
While this is a good post, I objected to curating it as the later “Highlights from the Comments on Cultural Evolution” had lots of comments suggesting that various quoted excerpts were either misleading or false. This made me pretty skeptical about all of the book’s other claims too.
Curating this review feels to me at odds with the stated goal of maintaining a repository of the highlights of ongoing conversations, since we have a later post which to me basically said that the book is unreliable enough to not be worth reading.
Hmm, this does seem fair. I think I’d also have thought it valuable to curate Highlights from the Comments on Cultural Evolution except that it wasn’t crossposted to LW.
I’m curating this post alongside Benquo’s response: Reason isn’t Magic.
One object level reason to curate both is that this post highlights some important details and questions about how culture and reason interface, and the “Reason is Magic” post offers a concrete, non-mysterious response that I found usefully clarifying.
There’s a meta level thing where I think it’s sort of using for LW readers who don’t keep up to date as much about how ongoing conversations played out, to have a good repository of the highlights of that conversation.
While this is a good post, I objected to curating it as the later “Highlights from the Comments on Cultural Evolution” had lots of comments suggesting that various quoted excerpts were either misleading or false. This made me pretty skeptical about all of the book’s other claims too.
Curating this review feels to me at odds with the stated goal of maintaining a repository of the highlights of ongoing conversations, since we have a later post which to me basically said that the book is unreliable enough to not be worth reading.
Hmm, this does seem fair. I think I’d also have thought it valuable to curate Highlights from the Comments on Cultural Evolution except that it wasn’t crossposted to LW.