ArisKatsaris comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 05 December 2011 12:04:51PM *  9 points [-]

Downvoted for implicit insult.

As someone who selected "socialist" (and yet has read the sequences) I want to remind you that that the example given in the survey for what "socialist" meant in the context of the survey was Sweden -- it wasn't Cuba, Venezuela, or Greece.

Comment author: kilobug 05 December 2011 12:33:23PM -1 points [-]

Not wanting to enter a political debate, but putting Cuba, Venezuela and Greece in the same bag is quite shocking to me. I don't see how Greece is more "socialist" than most of Europe, and Venezuela is very different from Cuba in so many aspects than trying to group them is making an arbitrary cluster (unless you're speaking of a generic specific thing like "the two founding members of Alba").

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 05 December 2011 01:09:36PM 10 points [-]

Not wanting to enter a political debate, but putting Cuba, Venezuela and Greece in the same bag is quite shocking to me.

Not wanting to enter a political debate either, but my point was NOT that these three are in the same bag, it was that I don't consider any of them in the same bag as Sweden which was the example given.