It’s impossible for me to imagine a tiered system that wouldn’t degenerate into a status competition. Can you think of examples of one that hasn’t?
The main blog and the community site mustn’t be seen as different tiers of the same thing, instead they must be seen as serving different purposes.
This is a general point concerning Robin’s and Eliezer’s disagreement. I’m posting it in this thread because this thread is the best combination of relevance and recentness.
It looks like Robin doens’t want to engage with simple logical arguments if they fall outside of established, scientific frameworks of abstractions. Those arguments could even be damning critiques of (hidden assumptions in) those abstractions. If Eliezer were right, how could Robin come to know that?