RichardKennaway comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong
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Agreed except for the part about Less Wrong is unusually bad in this regard. I think it's actually doing better then most gatherings of smart people attempting to reorganize society. Keep in mind lesswrong's equivalent 50 years ago would have been advocating Marxism.
Agreed.
You've never lived under a dictatorship have you? I strongly disagree with the above statement and think it's another good example of your first point.
True, however, the previous culture was hyper-conformist, since it was 'designed' to create people intelligent enough to operate machinery but conformist enough to work in an assembly line.
Bear in mind that LessWrong has not actually reorganised society yet.
I read that comment as: "I think it's actually doing better than most <gatherings of smart people attempting to reorganize society> (in staying self-aware and not being as socially naive)". Not that it's doing better than Marxists or others in actually changing the world. They obviously did a lot more in that regard than LessWrong ever has (or likely ever will).