+1, I agree with all of this, and generally consider the SSC/NYT incident to be an example of the rationalist community being highly tribalist.
(more on this in a twitter thread, which I’ve copied over to LW here)
What do you mean by example, here? That this is demonstrating a broader property, or that in this situation, there was a tribal dynamic?
+1, I agree with all of this, and generally consider the SSC/NYT incident to be an example of the rationalist community being highly tribalist.
(more on this in a twitter thread, which I’ve copied over to LW here)
What do you mean by example, here? That this is demonstrating a broader property, or that in this situation, there was a tribal dynamic?