In this thread: What’s a key thing you would tell /r/SneerClub users, to try and bridge the “worldview gap”?
/r/SneerClub users are not the sort of entities with whom you can have that conversation. You might as well ask a group of chimpanzees why they’re throwing shit at you.
Diagrams, stories, and hokey analogies encouraged. Condescension completely allowed.
These are the methods of /r/SneerClub. And you want to import them here?
There’s no point in wrestling a pig. The pig enjoys it, and you just get muddy.
I don’t know what you mean by “condescension is de facto allowed”; besides which, this is not about what is allowed, but about what is right by the standards that LessWrong is based on.
I am not concerned to “differentiate ourselves”, but to say what I see in SneerClub. This is not a shit-flinging contest, however much you try to make it be one. What is your purpose with this post? “Let’s you and him fight”?
/r/SneerClub users are not the sort of entities with whom you can have that conversation. You might as well ask a group of chimpanzees why they’re throwing shit at you.
These are the methods of /r/SneerClub. And you want to import them here?
There’s no point in wrestling a pig. The pig enjoys it, and you just get muddy.
Pretty sure diagrams and stories and analogies are allowed here. (And condescension is de facto allowed, even by accident, when talking about seemingly-basic mental operations.
Out of ways to differentiate ourselves from SneerClub, something tells me “compare outgroup to chimpanzees” is… not the best.
But “hokey” analogies? No.
I don’t know what you mean by “condescension is de facto allowed”; besides which, this is not about what is allowed, but about what is right by the standards that LessWrong is based on.
I am not concerned to “differentiate ourselves”, but to say what I see in SneerClub. This is not a shit-flinging contest, however much you try to make it be one. What is your purpose with this post? “Let’s you and him fight”?
“You might as well ask a group of chimpanzees why they’re throwing shit at you.”
Upvoted, but let’s be fair: you might be able to teach the chimps sign language and get a coherent answer. This is not true of Sneer Clubbers.