steven0461 comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: steven0461 05 December 2011 08:56:40PM *  7 points [-]

Or rationality doesn't much impact people's views on politics. Good thinkers seem to me to be all over the place politically.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 09 December 2011 10:32:22PM 2 points [-]

This doesn't surprise me. I have believed for a while now that political left-ness versus right-ness is determined by terminal values, not by beliefs or epistemology (except for the case of religiously based moral opinions, but in a forum of mostly atheists this effect doesn't show up much.)