CuSithBell comments on Selecting optimal group projects and roles - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 August 2011 12:51:19AM *  1 point [-]

Saying what the most extreme thing was that has been expressed without being totally shouted down sets

Is that even the case here? I haven't seen the claims in question made at all, whether downvoted or not. I refrained from replying with "I don't believe you" out of politeness and because I know that I don't have an exhaustive and perfectly indexed database of all lesswrong comments stored in my brain. All I can know is that the claims are blatant straw men to the extent that they are presented as memes actually present in lesswrong culture. So I predict with some confidence that even if they do actually exist in comments that they are treated as trolling.

Comment author: CuSithBell 10 August 2011 01:11:59AM 1 point [-]

I discuss this in greater depth in this reply. I hope this clarifies my position! I don't believe that LW-majority-position is misogynistic, self-serving nihilism (probably something more along the lines of happy-fun-times-nihilism). I do think that some of these topics can be dangerous-like-politics, and that this danger manifests as I describe in the other post.

Comment author: calcsam 10 August 2011 06:57:28AM *  0 points [-]

This thread illustrates my point.