Alicorn comments on Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks - Less Wrong

70 Post author: HughRistik 07 October 2009 04:35PM

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Comment author: komponisto 09 October 2009 03:35:56AM 3 points [-]

Interesting. So your problem seems to be with generalizing into large categories ("women"), and then perhaps putting the matter in in-group vs. out-group terms, as in "we men are owed more sex from you women". Am I right?

As for "scary"/"frightening", I guess I just think that the quality of this site is high enough that people ought to be given the benefit of the doubt. Certain views may be "scary" when expressed "out there", because they signal an intention to do something bad. Here, I think we ought to be able to take more things at face value, without disclaimers.

Comment author: Alicorn 09 October 2009 12:42:37PM 0 points [-]

I have problems with generalizing over groups smaller than "people in general" and with othering, yes.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 October 2009 03:05:11PM 2 points [-]

Don't you just hate those groupgeneralizers?