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Comment author: Bongo 12 May 2011 04:14:13PM *  4 points [-]

I'm afraid my comments were mostly driven by an inarticulate fear of cults and of association with a group as cultish as Mormons. But one specific thing I already said I'm afraid of is that of LW becoming a "rational" community instead of a rational community, differing from other communities only by the flag it rallies around.

Comment author: jimrandomh 12 May 2011 05:09:51PM 1 point [-]

But one specific thing I already said I'm afraid of is that of LW becoming a "rational" community instead of a rational community, differing from other communities only by the flag it rallies around.

If you took a typical community and replaced its flag with one that said "be rational", would you expect the effect to be positive, negative, and neutral?

Comment author: Bongo 12 May 2011 05:17:23PM 11 points [-]

I don't really know, but I'll note that Scientologists are known to laud "sanity", and Objectivists were all about "reason".

Comment author: Costanza 12 May 2011 05:25:03PM 7 points [-]

You might think that a belief system which praised "reason" and "rationality" and "individualism" would have gained some kind of special immunity, somehow...?

Well, it didn't.

It worked around as well as putting a sign saying "Cold" on a refrigerator that wasn't plugged in.

Rationality flags don't seem to help that much.

Comment author: Desrtopa 13 May 2011 02:02:41AM *  2 points [-]

No, I wouldn't.

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