orthonormal comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: brazil84 17 March 2010 02:21:18AM 7 points [-]

I mean, who cares if one genetic group has a higher average IQ than another genetic group?

For purposes of this discussion, the reason I care is that the racial IQ gap is the big taboo of our age just as the existence of God was the big taboo at some point in the past (and still is to a certain extent).

The real test for whether or not somebody is a "cheap credit" skeptic will necessarily involve inflammatory issues, it seems to me.

Comment author: orthonormal 22 March 2010 06:01:52AM 11 points [-]

The real test for whether or not somebody is a "cheap credit" skeptic will necessarily involve inflammatory issues, it seems to me.

Wow, yeah. This suggests another Umeshism to me:

If you haven't horrified or offended anyone you care about, you're not a genuine skeptic.

(It goes without saying that the inverse of this statement is false.)