This is a super charitable reading of him, and I’m not sure whether to congratulate you for proving capable of it, or simply to call it naivete. We’re mostly about being able to change one’s own opinion; that’s what we call rationality. Whereas he already “knows” that the truth is NRx, and what he calls “rationality” is simply whatever path you take to go from your current beliefs to NRx. Obviously people can’t disagree for valid reasons, “it is known” that they disagree because “the truth” makes them feel uncomfortable, or they’re brainwashed by the liberal media, or they’re simply inferior in intelligence or rationality. This is literally every post he has made lately.
You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped. Hanlon’s razor and all that, but malice is a thing, and he has exhibited quite a bit of it in the past. I don’t really think his own behavior is causing him distress. I think he just doesn’t hold himself to the moral standard of having to be fair and kind to opponents.
P.S. I check people’s karma all the time, in case you were wondering. Mostly when a user seems fishy and I want to check the community consensus on him. It’s useful information.
P.P.S. We know you, Clarity. You wouldn’t get mistaken for an Eugine sockpuppet if you tried. You’re just different brands of crazy. :-P
To revise Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to an enormous complicated System full of conflicting incentives getting stuck in a weird equilibrium. When that weird equilibrium is crushing people in its gears, don’t attribute that harm to a conspiracy of evil powerful people who planned it all and profit from it. There is no master plan behind the US medical system, it’s just an enormous complicated thing that got stuck. Even if there’s a billionaire or politician benefiting from the current setup, they didn’t cunningly plan for the US medical system to be dysfunctional, and they couldn’t make anything be different by choosing otherwise. Conspiracies of evil people plan how to profit from the System’s current stuck state. They don’t decide where it gets stuck.
-EY the other day
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And yet it is you who knows the truth of his guilt. I say the best way is to ‘put him on trial’. If you will. I want to see him pressured to explain himself totally and under threat that if here lies, he could be banned (like perjury) and that if we have reasonable doubt that he may be innocent, he is free.
P.P.S. We know you, Clarity. You wouldn’t get mistaken for an Eugine sockpuppet if you tried. You’re just different brands of crazy. :-P
Whereas he already “knows” that the truth is NRx, and what he calls “rationality” is simply whatever path you take to go from your current beliefs to NRx.
I assume that NRX does contain some genuine insight about the real world, even though some or perhaps even most of it may be quite wrong. Anyway, there are a lot of folks out there who have made up their mind already and are not going to be convinced otherwise, much like Eugine or The_Lion or whoever. LW is plenty resilient enough to deal with such people—and indeed, this is a key requirement if it is to be successful.
Alternate hypothesis: NRx stole some genuine insights from other branches of political thought (eg public choice theory, moral drift) & passed them off as original to NRx.
We’re mostly about being able to change one’s own opinion; that’s what we call rationality.
No, rationality is the ability to change one’s opinion on the basis of evidence. Screaming about how “outrageous” what someone said is doesn’t constitute evidence.
This is a super charitable reading of him, and I’m not sure whether to congratulate you for proving capable of it, or simply to call it naivete. We’re mostly about being able to change one’s own opinion; that’s what we call rationality. Whereas he already “knows” that the truth is NRx, and what he calls “rationality” is simply whatever path you take to go from your current beliefs to NRx. Obviously people can’t disagree for valid reasons, “it is known” that they disagree because “the truth” makes them feel uncomfortable, or they’re brainwashed by the liberal media, or they’re simply inferior in intelligence or rationality. This is literally every post he has made lately.
You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped. Hanlon’s razor and all that, but malice is a thing, and he has exhibited quite a bit of it in the past. I don’t really think his own behavior is causing him distress. I think he just doesn’t hold himself to the moral standard of having to be fair and kind to opponents.
P.S. I check people’s karma all the time, in case you were wondering. Mostly when a user seems fishy and I want to check the community consensus on him. It’s useful information.
P.P.S. We know you, Clarity. You wouldn’t get mistaken for an Eugine sockpuppet if you tried. You’re just different brands of crazy. :-P
-EY the other day
And yet it is you who knows the truth of his guilt. I say the best way is to ‘put him on trial’. If you will. I want to see him pressured to explain himself totally and under threat that if here lies, he could be banned (like perjury) and that if we have reasonable doubt that he may be innocent, he is free.
I love this, thanks! :) haha
I assume that NRX does contain some genuine insight about the real world, even though some or perhaps even most of it may be quite wrong. Anyway, there are a lot of folks out there who have made up their mind already and are not going to be convinced otherwise, much like Eugine or The_Lion or whoever. LW is plenty resilient enough to deal with such people—and indeed, this is a key requirement if it is to be successful.
Alternate hypothesis: NRx stole some genuine insights from other branches of political thought (eg public choice theory, moral drift) & passed them off as original to NRx.
For me, that is far too low a bar for getting my interest.
No, rationality is the ability to change one’s opinion on the basis of evidence. Screaming about how “outrageous” what someone said is doesn’t constitute evidence.