It just seems crazy that I can point out that Aella is being manipulative and you guys are easily-fooled, I get a bunch of well-written and thoughtful replies telling me I am wrong and a jerk, I almost convince myself that you are right, but under closer examination what you say is completely hypocritical and applies to Aella’s post too.
And other people in the comments can point out that Aella’s post is doing literally the thing she describes in her post.… and this is just of intellectual interest to you guys? Like, it’s not actually making you examine your metacognition at all? There is a total disconnect here.
This is supposed to be a rationality forum but it seems you guys barely update on anything, don’t really think critically, and mostly just shuffle around ingroup ideas that have been validated by [Eliezer, Aella, Scott Alexander] or whoever is in the ingroup these days and somehow don’t really notice it.
I think this forum is mainly interesting as a case-study in cult behaviour, avoidant thinking, and sociopath mind-control.
It just seems crazy that I can point out that Aella is being manipulative and you guys are easily-fooled, I get a bunch of well-written and thoughtful replies telling me I am wrong and a jerk, I almost convince myself that you are right, but under closer examination what you say is completely hypocritical and applies to Aella’s post too.
And other people in the comments can point out that Aella’s post is doing literally the thing she describes in her post.… and this is just of intellectual interest to you guys? Like, it’s not actually making you examine your metacognition at all? There is a total disconnect here.
This is supposed to be a rationality forum but it seems you guys barely update on anything, don’t really think critically, and mostly just shuffle around ingroup ideas that have been validated by [Eliezer, Aella, Scott Alexander] or whoever is in the ingroup these days and somehow don’t really notice it.
I think this forum is mainly interesting as a case-study in cult behaviour, avoidant thinking, and sociopath mind-control.
Nice try.