There has been a lot of important events that New York Times journalists didn’t see fit to explain to their readers. The failure of Soviet collective agriculture is probably the most infamous historical example.
The failure of Soviet agriculture wasn’t very salient to Americans. If a topic would be the center of a culture war in the US they would notice and in today’s traffic driven times feel like it’s a good idea to write an article that ranks decently on the keyword.
The US culture war isn’t secular in nature. Many people on the right care about issues like the War on Christmas even when the kind of people in online discussions like Scott’s log don’t.
In other matters, was there a single time Trump uttered the words human biodiversity? He did have some pollsters who tried to understand what the US Republican public cares about.
Imagine trying to discuss the history of life on a forum that bans the term “evolution”.
Getting people to say natural selection instead of evolution has its benefits given that plenty of people think the terms are interchangeable and use the term wrongly.
Additionally, Scott blog isn’t a forum for discussing US culture wars. It isn’t even forum in the first place but the blog of a person who wants to be employed in an industry that doesn’t happen to be anti-fragile.
The failure of Soviet agriculture wasn’t very salient to Americans.
Yes it was. The “success” of Soviet collectivization compared to the apparent failure of capitalism was being used as an argument to justify leftwing/collectivist economic policies.
If a topic would be the center of a culture war in the US they would notice and in today’s traffic driven times feel like it’s a good idea to write an article that ranks decently on the keyword.
The NYT isn’t going to publish an article that would offend the world view of it’s liberal readers. Any description of HBD that conceptualizes it as an empirical scientific hypothesis that could be tested and potentially confirmed would certainly fit the bill.
So in the space of two comments you’ve gone from arguing:
Scott didn’t ban any of the collection of ideas but the term itself: “I am banning the terms “human biodiversity” and “hbd” – this doesn’t necessarily mean banning all discussion of those topics, but it should force people to concentrate on particular claims rather than make sweeping culture-war-ish declarations about the philosophy as a whole. ”
to justifying Scott’s decision by saying:
Additionally, Scott blog isn’t a forum for discussing US culture wars.
This looks like a straightforward example of what Eliezer calls logical rudeness.
The failure of Soviet agriculture wasn’t very salient to Americans. If a topic would be the center of a culture war in the US they would notice and in today’s traffic driven times feel like it’s a good idea to write an article that ranks decently on the keyword.
The US culture war isn’t secular in nature. Many people on the right care about issues like the War on Christmas even when the kind of people in online discussions like Scott’s log don’t.
In other matters, was there a single time Trump uttered the words human biodiversity? He did have some pollsters who tried to understand what the US Republican public cares about.
Getting people to say natural selection instead of evolution has its benefits given that plenty of people think the terms are interchangeable and use the term wrongly. Additionally, Scott blog isn’t a forum for discussing US culture wars. It isn’t even forum in the first place but the blog of a person who wants to be employed in an industry that doesn’t happen to be anti-fragile.
Yes it was. The “success” of Soviet collectivization compared to the apparent failure of capitalism was being used as an argument to justify leftwing/collectivist economic policies.
The NYT isn’t going to publish an article that would offend the world view of it’s liberal readers. Any description of HBD that conceptualizes it as an empirical scientific hypothesis that could be tested and potentially confirmed would certainly fit the bill.
So in the space of two comments you’ve gone from arguing:
to justifying Scott’s decision by saying:
This looks like a straightforward example of what Eliezer calls logical rudeness.