MugaSofer comments on Cult impressions of Less Wrong/Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 10 January 2013 12:27:29PM -2 points [-]

EY is able to keep this stuff up by systematically ignoring every bit of his own advice

Your examples seem ... how do I put this ... unreliable. The first two are less examples and more insults, since you do not provide any actual examples of these tendencies; the last one would be more serious, if he hadn't written extensively on why he believes this to be the safest way - the only way that isn't suicidal - or if you had provided some evidence that his FAI proposals are "extremely dangerous". And, of course, airily proclaiming that this is true of "pretty much every entry in the sequences" seems, in the context of these examples, like an overgeneralization at best and ... well, I'm not going to bother outlining the worst possible interpretation for obvious reasons.