I was thinking of a specific comment I wrote multiple replies to before successfully restraining myself with the realization that it was blatant flame-bait. I do not claim that the basic point (“groups x y and z produce fewer successful people on average than groups u v and w”, and “mediocre success gets signal-boosted among disadvantaged groups”) is false. I do claim that the way the_lion conducted himself during the discussion rapidly stopped including a willingness to engage with facts or use enough clarity to make some of his claims falsifiable, and the phrasing implied a deliberate attempt to provoke outrage (which I should note was mostly avoided; it is regrettable that a couple people succumbed to the temptation anyway.)
I was thinking of a specific comment I wrote multiple replies to before successfully restraining myself with the realization that it was blatant flame-bait. I do not claim that the basic point (“groups x y and z produce fewer successful people on average than groups u v and w”, and “mediocre success gets signal-boosted among disadvantaged groups”) is false. I do claim that the way the_lion conducted himself during the discussion rapidly stopped including a willingness to engage with facts or use enough clarity to make some of his claims falsifiable, and the phrasing implied a deliberate attempt to provoke outrage (which I should note was mostly avoided; it is regrettable that a couple people succumbed to the temptation anyway.)
Compare this:
with your claim above the he was “divorced-from-reality”.
You didn’t quote the second sentence fully:
It’s still the same idea: The Lion was wrong, and refused to be corrected.
Perhaps instead of “divorced from”, I should have said “adversarial to”?
Or maybe I should have just left it at “adversarial” and not bothered bringing up the relation to reality at all.