JGWeissman comments on Existential Risk and Public Relations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 17 August 2010 07:34:06PM *  2 points [-]

This would be easier to parse if you quoted the individual criteria you are evaluating right before the evaluation, eg:

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A movement that separates itself from society, either geographically or socially;

It would be hard to make a case for this one; a tendency to congregate geographically (many people joining the SIAI visiting fellows, and having meetups) is hardly cutting oneself off from others; however, there is certainly some tendency to cut ourselves off socially - note for example the many instances of folks worrying they will not be able to find a sufficiently "rationalist" significant other.