I very much agree with the premise, if taken literally rather than as satire. Communities that refuse to defend their borders eventually get destroyed.
That said, I can take most of the wording in the linked page as humor, but the blocked example was, at best, in bad taste, if not literally racist without context.
If LW did have an Eternal September-like crisis, I’m not sure what we’d do about it. A simple entry test like this seems like an option. But rather than an IQ-captcha, I’d like to see a rationality-captcha. Intelligence is not the same thing as rationality. Clever people tell themselves clever lies.
This one’s better. Not in such bad taste like the last one. Are you actually finding these on Twitter, or making them up? I feel like better examples exist. This one still feels like it could be more about culture war than intelligence, but maybe that’s most of what’s stupid on Twitter. Given the snark in the rest of the page a funnier example would fit better. Maybe something so not-even-wrong you want to facepalm.
I very much agree with the premise, if taken literally rather than as satire. Communities that refuse to defend their borders eventually get destroyed.
That said, I can take most of the wording in the linked page as humor, but the blocked example was, at best, in bad taste, if not literally racist without context.
If LW did have an Eternal September-like crisis, I’m not sure what we’d do about it. A simple entry test like this seems like an option. But rather than an IQ-captcha, I’d like to see a rationality-captcha. Intelligence is not the same thing as rationality. Clever people tell themselves clever lies.
What do you think of the new quote?
This one’s better. Not in such bad taste like the last one. Are you actually finding these on Twitter, or making them up? I feel like better examples exist. This one still feels like it could be more about culture war than intelligence, but maybe that’s most of what’s stupid on Twitter. Given the snark in the rest of the page a funnier example would fit better. Maybe something so not-even-wrong you want to facepalm.