Nope, sorry. I have seen that the Less Wrong community lacks neither the experience nor the intellectual courage to deal with highly provocative words head on—sometimes keeping its cool and sometimes not, but hardly resorting to a policy of selective blindness.
I’m not saying that Moldbug is a terrorist/would-be Hitler/whatever, or that people aren’t allowed to like him on rational grounds, or anything of the sort. I am merely refusing to quickly avert my eyes from a thoroughly appalling detail.
Even if you feel that judging the quality of someone’s thought requires reporting any particularly offensive statements in their other writings, you could at least do so without encouraging mindkill and frothing. Arguably we shouldn’t be discussing Moldbug in the first place.
Arguably we shouldn’t be discussing Moldbug in the first place.
I more or less agree (for a different reason as you can see), however, I’m against pretty much any restrictions on LW topics provided even a modicum of intelligence being shown.
So if I’m an opponent (and yes, don’t waste time pointing out my self-identification as such and pre-written bottom line), I don’t like staying silent and I don’t think that “mind-kill” is at all a net negative to LW discussion… heck, I’m gonna have oh-so-irresponsible fun.
I more or less agree (for a different reason as you can see), however, I’m against pretty much any restrictions on LW topics provided even a modicum of intelligence being shown.
In the current context I find this statement disingenuous. I’ll be perfectly honest I think you are acting in bad faith.
No thank you. LessWrong is a no froth zone. Please take it elsewhere.
Nope, sorry. I have seen that the Less Wrong community lacks neither the experience nor the intellectual courage to deal with highly provocative words head on—sometimes keeping its cool and sometimes not, but hardly resorting to a policy of selective blindness.
I’m not saying that Moldbug is a terrorist/would-be Hitler/whatever, or that people aren’t allowed to like him on rational grounds, or anything of the sort. I am merely refusing to quickly avert my eyes from a thoroughly appalling detail.
Even if you feel that judging the quality of someone’s thought requires reporting any particularly offensive statements in their other writings, you could at least do so without encouraging mindkill and frothing. Arguably we shouldn’t be discussing Moldbug in the first place.
I more or less agree (for a different reason as you can see), however, I’m against pretty much any restrictions on LW topics provided even a modicum of intelligence being shown.
So if I’m an opponent (and yes, don’t waste time pointing out my self-identification as such and pre-written bottom line), I don’t like staying silent and I don’t think that “mind-kill” is at all a net negative to LW discussion… heck, I’m gonna have oh-so-irresponsible fun.
In the current context I find this statement disingenuous. I’ll be perfectly honest I think you are acting in bad faith.