Multiheaded comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 March 2012 05:12:46AM *  3 points [-]

I'd assign it a lower probability then Aurini but probably higher then you.

What the flying fuck. So in your worldview women are largely "useless" and men have to "guide" them, but there are no situations where men are useless, and women have to influence them? E.g. to make them calm down, prevent them from acting on emotion, etc.

I don't see how this flows from my quote. In any case, I don't agree with it.

In any case, even holding a belief such a nasty thing (objectively "nasty" by our culture's standards, not as a judgment of the believer) is very dangerous in itself.

So you're saying that the belief is so "nasty" that assigning it any non-zero probability is a bad idea.

Comment author: Multiheaded 24 March 2012 10:02:52AM 1 point [-]

So you're saying that the belief is so "nasty" that assigning it any non-zero probability is a bad idea.

No. I'm only saying that it's dangerous, and that even if you truly think that such a belief would have the advantage of reflecting reality better, you still have to trade that against the disadvantage of it being extremely unsuited to your cultural environment.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 March 2012 08:42:51PM -1 points [-]

No. I'm only saying that it's dangerous, and that even if you truly think that such a belief would have the advantage of reflecting reality better, you still have to trade that against the disadvantage of it being extremely unsuited to your cultural environment.

And yet, you claim to be a socialist.

Comment author: Multiheaded 28 March 2012 08:15:27AM *  1 point [-]

How is this even relevant outside some weird partisan definition of "socialist" and "cultural environment"? And how is this not a purely political jab at all?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 March 2012 12:13:20AM 2 points [-]

My point is that I don't believe this constitutes your true rejection, and was trying to argue by pointing to a belief you hold that isn't exactly mainstream.

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